Horinji Kannon Misono

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Hoorinji 宝林寺 Horin-Ji, Misono
佛性山 Busshozan, Hōrin-ji, Horinji

伊勢市御薗町小林361 / Ise city, Misono town, Ohayashi

The Kannon statue is 十一面観音 Juichimen Kannon.

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Hōrin-ji is a temple belonging to Jōdo sect (Pure Land Buddhism).
It stands in a Misono Ohayashi district of Ise city, on former grounds of
Yamada bugyō office (official commissionaires of Ise region),
where a famous samurai 大岡忠相 Ōoka Tadasuke (1677-1752) used to work.
This is also a place where Miya River flows into Ise Bay.
Hōrin-ji was founded by 円譽上人 monk Enyo in 1613, when the first buildings were erected.
At the time it was a sub-temple of 長楽寺 Chōraku-ji temple from Ōminato district.
The statue of Goddess Kannon worshiped in this temple is a Jūichimen Kannon (Eleven-Faced Kannon)
which once was a treasure belonging to 実性寺Jisshō-ji temple.
Jisshō-ji used to manage 月夜見宮 Tsukiyomi no Miya shrine – a sub-shrine of the Gegū outer shrine of the Ise Shrine.
In 1868 the new government of Meiji period issued an order to separate Shinto from Buddhism (shinbutsu bunri).
As the result Jisshō-ji temple was closed and the Jūichimen Kannon statue was moved
to Seirin-ji temple in Ohayashi district.
In 1925 Hōrin-ji and Seirin-ji merged and the statue of Goddess Kannon was moved once more.
Since then it is worshiped in Hōrin-ji temple.
The Jūichimen Kannon statue is a hibutsu (hidden Buddhist statue)
and it is shown to the public only once a year – on November 20th, when
a Ten-night memorial service (お十夜法要 - Ojūya hōyō) is being held.
Followers call her 小林観音 Ohayashi Kannon and believe that she cures eye diseases.
Since the beginning of 17th Century, each year on the 15th of August during Obon (Festival of the Dead),
self-made 手筒花火 hand pipe fireworks are set off and traditional dance
大念仏羯鼓踊り Dainenbutsu Kanko Odori is performed as a memorial service for the ancestors.
Hand pipe fireworks are a form of ceremonial bonfires (送り火 okuribi) made to see off the ancestral spirits,
and are known in this region as a rare example of a fire festival.
- source : isekannon.jp/otera ...

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- source : isekannon.jp ...
- reference source : nippon-reijo.jimdofree ... -

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This temple is Nr. 07 of the pilgrimage
. Ise Saigoku 33 Kannon 伊勢西国三十三所観音巡礼 Pilgrimage .

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

. Juichimen Kannon 十一面観音 .

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