Virtual Arima County 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #7 Eitoku-ji Temple

 

     Eitoku-ji Temple was founded in Yoshio Village, Arima County, Settsu Province, in 1533.

     Miyoshi Motonaga (1501-1532) cornered Hosokawa Takakuni (1484-1531) to committ suicide at 4 a.m. on June 8th in 1531.  Motonaga was cornered to committ suicide on June 20th in 1532.  In 1533, people should have known that everything is ephemeral.

     Yoshio Village was located in the basin of the Hata River, a tributary of the Muko River.  The Yoshio Family was based in Yoshio Fortress during the Warring States Period (1467-1573), but was destroyed by the Matsubara Family in 1560.  Yamazaki Sadatoki is said to have subsequently resided in the fortress.  The village name appears on Keicho Kuni-ezu, or the Keicho Maps of the Provinces.

     Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616), the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, conducted a land survey of the distribution and rice yields of the feudal lords' territories and the lands of temples and shrines across Japan in September, 1605.  He appointed Nishio Yoshitsugu (1530-1606) as magistrate in charge of Eastern Provinces and Tsuda Hidemasa (1546-1653) as magistrate in charge of Western Provinces.  The maps are said to have been made based on this survey.  There is no mention of the village's land area. It is believed to have been included in Yanagidani Village's land area.  According to the Settsu Province Account of 1617, it was the territory of Arima Toyouji (1569-1642).

Address: Yoshio-714 Hatacho, Kita Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 651-1353

Phone: 078-982-3615

Yoshio Fortress Site

Address: 347 Yoshio, Katsuura, Chiba 299-5242