Virtual Upper Tada Manor 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #26 Kannon-ji Temple

 

     It is unknown when Hachiman Shrine was invited to Tamida Village.

     Tamida Village belonged to Tada Manor and was first documented in 1368.  In 1468, the village paid 1,357 coins as a kind of tax to Tada-in Temple.  The village paid only 1,200 coins but "failed" to pay 150 coins in 1506.

     When Hosokawa Masayuki (1455-1488) died young in 1488, his brother, Yoshiharu (1468-1495), succeeded to the Guardian Samurai of Awa Province, and Miyoshi Yukinaga (1458-1520) became a vassal of him.  Meanwhile, Hosokawa Masamoto (1466-1507) didn't have a son and adopted Yoshiharu's second son, Sumimoto (1489-1520), as the Awa-Hosokawa Family was second to Keicho-Hosokawa Family among the Hosokawa Clan.  On February 19th, 1506, Yukinaga was dispatched to Kyoto as Sumimoto's butler to command an advance party.  Accordingly, he became a vassal of the Keicho-Hosokawa Family.  In August, he advanced to Yamato Province under Masamoto's order.  Yukinaga was as shrewd as ever.  He embarked on the conflicts over taxation powers as a butler of Sumimoto.  It meant he took risks for Sumimoto in power struggles among central powerful families, and that gave him important lessons.  Those experiences and his own potential to organize rebellious moods brought him up to be an important figure even in the central political circles.  His up-and-coming emergence, however, raised jealousies and envy among conventional central samurai of his peers, such as Hosokawa Hisaharu (?-1519), the head of Awaji-Hosokawa Family, and Kozai Motonaga (?-1507), who was dispatched from Masamoto to Sumimoto as another butler.

     Presumably, during the Warring States Period (1467-1568), the temple's ancient control power might have weakened as the power games and struggles among powerful samurai became severer.

     It is unknown when Kannon-ji Temple was founded as Hachiman Shrine’s shrine temple.  The temple might have been abolished after the Meiji Restoration Government issued the Gods and Buddhas Separation Order in 1868.

Tamida-Hachiman Shrine

Address: Miyamae 233, Tamida, Inagawa, Kawabe District, Hyogo 666-0232