Kannonji Kannon Takatsuka

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Kannonji 観音寺 Kannon-Ji, Takatsuka
荒神山 Kojinzan 観音寺 Kannonji

三重県鈴鹿市高塚町1777 / Mie, Suzuka city, Takatsuka town

The Kannon statue is 十一面観音 Juichimen Kannon.

- Chant of the temple
The maple leaves turning red on the far Mount Kōjiga
look like the light of compassion emitted from Goddess Kannon.
里遠きこうぢが山の紅葉ばも　観音大悲の光とぞ見る

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The history of Kōjinyama Kannon-ji begins in 812, when 弘法大師 Kobo Daishi Kūkai (774-835),
the founder of Shingon sect,
visited this mountain and enshrined the divine spirit of a Japanese legendary 日本武尊 Prince Yamato Takeru
in a form of Buddhist statue. From this time the mountain was called 神事山 Kōjikayama (Mount Kōjika)
and was believed to be the final resting place for the Prince.
In 1087 a monk from Yamato province called 法陵律師 Hōryō visited this area
after receiving a divination from Goddess Kannon.
He sat under the hinoki cypress tree and carved a statue of Jūichimen Kannon (Eleven-Faced Kannon).
Then he built a hall and enshrined her inside.
Kōjinyama Kannon-ji was originally called 神事山（かうじかやま） Kōjikayama (Mountain of Divine Matters),
but after becoming a sub-temple of Mount Kōya it borrowed a kanji character used in its name
and changed the name to Kōjinyama (Mountain of Supreme Deity).
Commonly it is known as 荒神山 Kōjinyama (Mountain of Sanbō Kōjin).
The Main Hall of Kōjinyama Kannon-ji enshrines Jūichimen Kannon and three bronze statues of Hindu gods:
日天 Nitten (Sun Deva), 月天 Gatten (Moon Deva) and 地天 Jiten (Earth Deva).
Also in its precinct there is a Bell Tower with a bell donated by
a noble lady and politician 春日局 Lady Kasuga (1579-1643), and
inner sanctuary with two statues of 三宝荒神 Sanbō Kōjin (god of land, hearth fire, protector against disaster) and
九面観世音 Kumen Kannon (Nine-Faced Kannon).
The mountain is famous in Japan as a stage of yakuza brawl that had place in April of 1866
and involved the most famous yakuza and folk hero Shimizu Jirochō (1820-1893)
together with his sworn brother 吉良の仁吉 Kira no Nikichi (1839-1866).
A monument in memory of Kira who was killed on that day stands within the temple grounds.
He was shot with a matchlock (now in temple’s possession) which bullets left marks on some of the temple’s buildings.
- source : /isekannon.jp

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- source : www.kojinyama.jp ...
- reference source : isekannon.jp/english ... -
- reference source : nippon-reijo.jimdofree ... -

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This temple is Nr. 24 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 Senju Kannon 千手観音 Kannon with 11 faces and 1000 arms .

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