Tado Kannondo Tado

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Tado Kannondoo 多度観音堂 Tado Kannondo Hall, Tado
多度山Tadozan, 法雲寺 Hounji, 観音堂 Kannondo

桑名市多度町多度山下1613 / Haruna city, Tado town, Tadosan shita

There are two Kannon statues :
十一面観世音 Juichimen Kannon
and 千手観世音 Senju Kannon.

- Chant of the temple
Washinokura is where I take off my pilgrim’s vest
which protected me during the pilgrimage.
今まではおやとたのみしおひづるを脱て納むるわしのくらにて（

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The history of Tado Kannon-dō starts in 763, when a monk called 満願禅師 Mangan (720-816)
built a practice ground in the 鷲の倉 Washinokura area east of Tado Shrine.
He enshrined a 4.85m high statue of Buddha, prayed and practiced.
One night he got a divination from Amatsuhikone, a Shinto god
and a 3rd son of Goddess of the Sun Amaterasu, and was told to build a temple.
Mangan traveled around the area and gathered donations.
When he got enough he went back to Washinokura, built a hall and
enshrined Amatsuhikone as a Bodhisattva Tado in it.
Soon a bell tower with a bronze bell was donated by a district headman 水取月足 Mizutori Tsukitari,
and a three-storied pagoda was founded by 主新麻呂 Agatanushi Nimaro from Mino province.
With these three buildings the basic structure of a Buddhist temple was finished.
In 780 by the order of the Emperor a monk called 法教禅師 Hōkyō was chosen to expand the temple.
In 781 Hōkyō started a preaching tour to gather donations
around four provinces: Ise, Mino, Owari and Shima.
Next he built a Lecture Hall and living quarters for monks.
Then he gathered ritual objects, tools and other necessary items.
The temple started to function properly and soon it received donation in form of rice fields and land.
In 839 the Emperor decided to make it a sub-temple of Tendai school.
In 849 the temple changed the school to Shingon and was given a name Hōun-ji.
Hōun-ji appears in the 10th Century book about laws and customs 延喜式 Engishiki (Procedures of the Engi Era, 905),
which was edited by 藤原時平　Fujiwara no Tokihira.
It states: Hōun-ji will be treated as a Provincial sub-temple, and there are 10 monks
who received the official certificates from the government.
The temple grew and flourished.
The 16th Century abbot of the temple reported that Hōun-ji consists of more than 70 sub-temples
and more than 300 monks live in its precinct.
The temple was not only a place of prayer, but also a school for many young monks and a cultural center of the area. In Kamakura period (1192-1333), between the years of 1211 and 1213,
the temple was set on fire by a group of thieves that burst into it.
In 1489 due to the Nankai earthquake a landslide occurred at the mountain.
As a result Hōun-ji temple was buried in the ground.
But according to the records kept by a clan of 多度大社　Tado Shrine priests – 小串氏　the Ogushi clan,
the temple was rebuilt and between 1532 and 1555 more than 70 sub-temples operated in its precinct.
Not long after Jōdo Shinshū school Buddhsits from Nagashima started an uprising against the samurai class
and especially Oda Nobunaga (later regarded as the first “Great Unifier” of Japan).
They even made special prayers at Tado Shrine to curse their enemy.
In 1571 Oda Nobunaga’s army led by 柴田勝家　Shibata Katsuie and 氏家常陸介　Ujiie Naomoto
marched in this area and burned all buildings belonging to Tado Shrine and Hōun-ji temple.
The temple and the shrine ceased to exist in the end of the 16th Century.
Their land was confiscated as a result of Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s nationwide land survey. In the beginning of 17th Century the daimyo of Kuwana province 本多忠勝　Honda Tadakatsu (1548-1610)
revived the Tado Shrine. In 1617 the next daimyo 松平定勝　Matsudaira Sadakatsu (1560-1624)
brought an altar of 愛宕神　Shinto deity Atago (a protector against fires) from Kakegawa in Tōtōmi province
and placed it in the shrine.
In 1653 a monk named 良心法師　Ryōshin, the new abbot of Hōun-ji,
gathered donations and managed to rebuild the temple.
It was placed in Tado Shrine jurisdiction.
At the beginning of Meiji period (1868-1912) Hōun-ji temple was closed
due to the new law ordering the separation of Buddhism and Shinto (shinbutsu bunri).
A new Kannon Hall was built at the river bank of 落葉川　Ochiba river, a sacred river of Tado Shrine,
and two statues of Jūichimen Kannon (Eleven-Faced Kannon) and
Senju Kannon (Thousand-Armed Kannon) were enshrined inside.
In 1900 due to severe rain fall the Kannon Hall was washed away.
In the following year a new smaller hall was built in its place
and two surviving statues were once again enshrined inside.
In 1905 the current Kannon Hall was rebuilt
and new ritual objects were place inside thanks to donations of the worshipers.
. source : isekannon.jp/otera ... .

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shuin　朱印 stamp

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- - - - - Reference of the temple
- reference source : isekannon.jp/english ... -
- reference source : nippon-reijo.jimdofree ... -

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This temple is Nr. 33 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 .

. Senju Kannon 千手観音 Kannon with 11 faces and 1000 arms .
and 十一面観世音 Juichimen Kannon

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