Virtual Miki County 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #11 Jigen-ji Temple

 

     Jigen-ji Temple is said to have been founded in Kurumi Manor in 648 by Hermit Hodo.  Although it fell into disrepair for a time, it was revived during the Southern and Nothern Courts Period (1336-1392) by Akamatsu Norimura (1277-1350), the samurai guardian of Harima Province.

     Kurumi Manor was developed in the area around the confluence of the Mino and the Shijimi Rivers, corresponding to today's Kurumi, Atobe, Iwamiya, Hirata, and Hirai areas.  The place name, Kurumi, first appears in the Kujo Family Library Documents dated March 17th, 1293.  From the Kamakura Period (1185-1333) to the Southern and Northern Courts Period (1336-1392), it was owned by the Kujo Family, according to the Draft List of Lands Registered by the Left General's Administrative Office, dated August 24th, 1336.  Later, it was owned by Kasuga Shrine until November, 1570, accroding to Kasuga Shrine Priest Sukeyoshi's Records.

     Part of Kurumi Manor became Kurumi Village.  On February 28th, 1580, Sugihara Ietsugu (?-1584), in cooperation with the village headmen of Kurumi Village, which had suffered from a poor harvest the previous year, ordered Iio Riemonnojo not to ransack the fields.  In return, he applied to Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598) to have the land around Riemonnojo's residence and mud walls exempted from paying taxes, ("Sugihara Ietsugu's Document," Iio Documents).

Address: 1722 Kurumi, Miki, Hyogo 673-0411

Phone: 0794-82-4093

Kasuga-taisha Shrine

Address: 160 Kasuganocho, Nara, 630-8212

Phone: 0742-22-7788

Kennin-ji Temple

Address: 584 Komatsucho, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto 605-0811

Phone: 075-561-6363