Virtual Miki County 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #16 Hoko-ji Temple

 

     Tradition says that Hoko-ji Temple was founded by Hodo in 651.  How many times have I mentioned Hodo as a founder of a certain Buddhist temple?

     According to the Wamyo Ruijusho, namely Japanese Names for Things Classified and Annotated,  which was a Japanese dictionary compiled in 938, and which lists Japanese place names from south to north, Yokawa Village was in Minagi County, Settsu Province.  In Medieval days, the village became Yokawa Manor.

     Hoko-ji Temple keeps old documents which date back to 1203 and which talks about Yokawa Manor.  Part of Yokawa Manor became modern Yokawa Village

     The temple area could have been a holy place since ancient times, but it might have been at the turn of the 13th century that the temple was actually founded.

Address: 42 Yokawacho Hokoji, Miki, Hyogo 673-1124

Phone: 0794-73-0083