Virtual Old Akashi 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #33 Fukuzo-ji Temple

 

     It is unknown when Fukuzo-ji Temple was founded.

     U.S. Air Force bombed Akashi City 6 times in 1945: on January 19th with 62 bombers, on June 9th with 24 bombers, on June 22nd with 26 bombers, on June 26th with 31 bombers,on July 7th with 124 bombers, and on July 28th with 3 bombers.  On July 7th, they used incendiary devices, and Fukuzo-ji Temple might have been burned down on that day.  The temple was abolished with its graveyard left as Daitoku-ji Ganjo-ji Kyodo Cemetery.  Kyodo means Cooperation or Join.  It is unknown why Fukuzo-ji was renamed Ganjo-ji on that occasion.

     Fukuzo-ji Temple’s Buddhist tanka poem is unknown.

Daitoku-ji Ganjo-ji Kyodo Cemetery

Address: 5-5 Taruyamachi, Akashi, Hyogo 673-0898