Virtual Kasai Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #27 Myogan-ji Temple

 

     It is unknown when the temple was originally founded in Nishi-Shimozato Manor as a Shingon sect temple, then recorded as Myogon-ji. The manor first appeared in historical records in 1188 and was later renamed Kensaka Manor. Prior to the Edo period, the manor was divided into Higashi-Kensaka and Nishi-Kensaka Villages. In 1560, the priest Kaichu converted the temple to the Caodong Chan sect, relocated it to its present site, and renamed it Myogan-ji.

     The temple's original location is believed to have been somewhere between the Kumano-shrine Tumulus (Kumano-jinja Kofun) and Bochi (the cemetery) in Higashi-Kensaka.

     Myogan-ji Temple’s Buddhist tanka poem is:

High on Mount Kokoku, sacred and grand,

A vows for the future protects this land.

Like the timeless shine of the sun and moon,

The Buddha’s grace grants its holy boon.

Address: 519 Higashikenzakacho, Kasai, Hyogo 675-2346

Phone: 0790-46-0132

Bochi

Address: Higashikenzakacho, Kasai, Hyogo 675-2346

Kumano-shrine Burial Site

Address: 1330 Higashikenzakacho, Kasai, Hyogo 675-2346