Kogenji Kannon Mukogaoka

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Koogenji, Kōgenji 光源寺　Kogen-Ji - Mukogaoka
天昌山 Tenshozan 松翁院 Matsuo-In 光源寺 Kogenji

文京区向丘2-38-22 / Tokyo, Bunkyo ward, Mukogaoka

駒込大観音 Komagome Dai Kannon / こまごめおおがんのん Oo-Kannon / 十一面観音像

The main statue is 阿弥陀如 Amida Nyorai.

The temple was founded in 1589 by 仙石秀久 Sengoku Hidehisa (1552 - 1614).
The Kannon Statue was carved on request of the rich merchant 丸屋吉兵衛 Maruya Yoshibei,
who had been on a pilgrimage to the Hasedera temple in Nara and wanted a similar large statue in Edo.
During the great earthquakes in 1855 and 1923 the temple hall was destroyed,
but the statue of Kannon was safe.
In 1945 on May 24 the temple and the statue were destroyed by the air raid.
After the war, a small statue of Kannon was placed on the old stone pedestal
but the people called it 駒込大観音 The Big Kannon of Komagome.
In 1993, the original large statue of Kannon was reconstructed.

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shuin 朱印 stamp

- Homepage of the temple
- source : city.bunkyo.lg.jp ...
- reference source : tesshow.jp ... -
- reference source : starfree.jp/goshuin/tokyo33 ...

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Also on the following pilgrimages :

上野王子駒込辺三十三ヶ所観音霊場 Ueno Oji Komagome Kannon temples - Nr. 08、
. Pilgrimage to Ueno Oji Komagome 33 Kannon Temples .

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This temple is Nr. 27 of the
. 東京三十三観音霊場 Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples of Tokyo

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

. Juichimen Kannon 十一面観世音菩薩 Kannon with 11 Heads

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .


................................................................................. Nagasaki 長崎県　
長崎市 Nagasaki city

ubume no yuurei 産女の幽霊 the ghost of a woman giving birth

Once in the evening someone knocked at the door of 飴屋 the sweet vendor.
When he opened, there was a young woman with a baby in her arms.
She bought some sweets and left.
She came every evening now and one night the owner followed her. They came to a well at a crossroads,
wher the woman drew some water, diluted the sweets and gave the water to her baby.
Then she went on to the graveyard of the temple 光源寺 Kogen-Ji, where she disappeared.
When they checked, they found a baby alive in her grave.

- reference source : n-kougenji.jp ... -

A similar story is told at Ishikawa
. temple 道入寺 Donyu-Ji .




................................................................................. Tokyo 東京都　
文京区 Bunkyo ward

. reimu 霊夢 an oracle dream .
about kudan no men くだんの面 / 件 a mask of a Kudan monster


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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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. Join the Kannon Bosatsu Gallery on Facebook .

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