Virtual Kawabe 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #32 Komyo-ji Temple

 

     Komyo-ji Temple was founded in the shrine town of Inano Shrine in 1571, and its buildings were completed in 1574.

     The temple's graveyard has the grave of Ikeda Sotan (1636-1693), a haiku poet.  He was born in Kyoto.  When he visited Itami in 1674, he was utterly captivated by the sake of Itami and settled there.  The stone monument engraved with his haiku poem is located in Hitotsubashi Park:

I stepped on a fallen flower.

If the flower feels frustrated,

It should bloom again.

Address: 2 Chome-5-8 Miyanomae, Itami, Hyogo 664-0895

Phone: 072-782-3375

Hitotsubashi Park

Address: 2 Chome-1 Funahara, Itami, Hyogo 664-0896

Inano Shrine

Address: 3 Chome-6-1 Miyanomae, Itami, Hyogo 664-0895

Phone: 072-782-2704