Virtual Sakai 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #9 Jomyo-ji Temple

 

     It is unknown when Hokoku-san Jomyo-ji Temple was founded in No'nin-machi Township, Sakai Town, Izumi Province.  The temple belonged to Pure Land Buddhism and was a branch of Seijoke-in Temple.

     It is also unknown when it was abolished.

     No'nin-machi was inside the moat surrounding Sakai Town along the eastern moat.

This narrow, north-south stretch of township was the domicile of ​​farmers from Kitasho, Nakasuji, Henomatsu, and Minato Villages, which were located in the east and south of Sakai Town.

     In 1615, the flames of the Siege of Osaka led to the peasants around Sakai fleeing.  The Tokugawa Shogunate ordered the peasants to return to their homes when the shogunate rehabilitated the town.  The Town Plan expanded the city, incorporating some land of the villages into the moat, resulting in a land reclamation of over 216,000 litters of rice worth.  To replace these losses, No'nin-machi Town was allocated inside the moat.

     Jomyo-ji Temple could have been founded for the peasants living in No'nin-machi Township.  As the township was long and narrow, whereabout of the temple is unknown but it was located somewhere in today’s 6 Chome Ichinochohigashi, Sakai Ward, Sakai, Osaka 590-0952, when the History of Sakai City was published in 1930.

No'nin-machi Well  Site

Address: 2 Chome-3 Yanaginochohigashi, Sakai Ward, Sakai, Osaka 590-0933

Seijoke-in Temple

Address: 395 Kitanobecho, Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto, 602-0852

Phone: 075-231-2550