Virtual Akashi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #23 Fukurin-ji Temple

 

     It is unknown when Fukurin-ji Temple was founded in Ikegami Village, Akashi County, Harima Province.  It belongs to Tamon-ji Temple as a Kannon-do hall out of the precincts of Tamon-ji Temple, but it is unknown whether the hall belonged to the temple from its origin or Fukurin-ji Temple was an independent temple and was merged to Tamon-ji Temple.

     Ikegami Village, whose current place name is Ikegami 1-5 chome, Ikawadanicho Kamiwaki, Otsuwa 1-3 chome, all in Nishi Ward, Kobe, Hyogo, was located in the midstream of the Ikawa River, to the west was Minamibefu Village.  The village was first documented in The Keicho Kuni-ezu, or the Keicho Maps of the Provinces, which was drawn at the beginning of the 17th century.  The village belonged to the Akashi Domain.

     Fukurin-ji Temple’s Buddhist tanka poem is:

In Fukurin-ji Temple,

Worship grows

Like a waxing moon.

Address: 2 Chome-18-6 Ikegami, Nishi Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 651-2111

Tamon-ji Temple

Address: 2 Chome-2-75 Tamondai, Tarumi-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 655-0007

Phone: 078-782-4445