Virtual Akashi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #31 Horin-ji Temple

 

     Horin-ji Temple was founded in 1705 by Priest Yushin.  Its wooden standing statue of Arya Avalokitesvara, who is the human-figure prototype of the other 6 metamorphoses, is supposed to have been made in the 12th century.  It is unknown how the temple got such an old statue.

     Yushin is said to have worked for the Settsu 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #3 Kanno-ji Temple, which is supposed to have been founded in the 9th century.  He could have brought the statue from Kan'no-ji Temple.

     Horin-ji Temple’s Buddhist tanka poem is:

Sin and guilt vanish here

In the temple facing the sea

In the snowy evening.

Address: 14-5 Zaimokucho, Akashi, Hyogo 673-0893

Phone: 078-911-4803

Kan'no-ji Temple

Address: 25-1 Kabutoyamacho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 662-0001

Phone: 0798-72-1172