Amidaji Fudo Aio

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Amidaji 阿弥陀寺 Amida-Ji - Aio
樫木山 Kashinokizan 阿弥陀寺 Amidaji

山口市秋穂二島向東2214 / Yamaguchi, Aio, Futajima, Mukaihigashi

Ikime Fudo 生目不動 "Fudo with living eyes"

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Nr. 10 - Fushigi 不思議（ふしぎ）童子　Fushigi Doji

The main statue is 阿弥陀如来 Amida Nyorai.

Not much is known about this temple.

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相馬郡 Soma district 鹿島町 Kashima town

. hebi 蛇と伝説 Legends about snakes and serpents .
> Once upon a time, there were many huge serpents at 阿弥陀寺 the Temple Amida-Ji in 八沢村 Yasawa village.
One was more than 3 meters long and did not flee when children chased it.
When the young temple acolyte told this to the main priest.
The priest told the acolyte to give the serpents something they liked.
When the acolyte asked what they liked, the priest told him "tocacco resin".
When the acolyte gave some resin to the serpent, the animal felt pain and left.
When the acolyte cleaned the temple, he felt a great pain and went almost crazy.
He said the serpent had wrapped itself around his body.
The priest told the acolyte to pray to 阿弥陀 Amida Nyorai and soon the pain was over.
To show gratitude, they built a stone marker for the serpent, now called
Yasawa no Hebizuka 八沢の蛇塚 Mound for the serpent of Yasawa.
. Amida Nyorai Legends 阿弥陀如来と伝説 .




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高松市 Takamatsu city 牟礼 Mure

. shiraha no ya 白羽の矢 an arrow with white feathers .


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Senkokuji Kannon Kozukue

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Senkokuji 泉谷寺 Senkoku-Ji, Kozukue
松亀山　Matsukamezan 本覺院 Hongaku-In　泉谷寺 Senkokuji

神奈川県横浜市港北区小机町256 / Kanagawa, Yokohama, Kohoku ward, Kozukue town

The Kannon statue is 聖観世音菩薩 Sho Kannon.

The temple was built around 1322 by 二宮織部正 Ninomiya Oribesho.
To built a temple for his late father, he invited 見譽上人 Saint Migaku,
who built the temple and called it 泉谷寺 Senkoku-Ji.
Saint was also the priest at 飯沼弘経寺 the Temple Gugyo-Ji in Iinuma.
In 1642, the Bakufu government in Edo alloted it more land.

The temple has a wooden door with a painting from 歌川広重 Utagawa Hiroshige.
In 1928, it was repaired by 野口米次郎 Noguchi Yonejiro (1875 - 1947)
and shown to the public.

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The remains of Kozukue Castle (小机城 Kozukue-jō)

are located in present-day Kōhoku Ward, Yokohama.
The castle was thought to be built by the Uesugi clan during the Eikyō Rebellion (永享の乱 Eikyō-no-ran) in 1438/39.
The Uesugi were a powerful samurai family that descended from the Fujiwara, and that was most influential during the Muromachi and the Sengoku periods, holding the positions of shugo (守護, provincial governors) and Kantō kanrei (関東管領, deputies of the shōgun in the Kantō region) until 1552.
Later, in 1478, the castle re-entered the spotlight of history when Nagao Kageharu (長尾景春, 1443-1514), a vassal of the Yamanouchi Uesugi clan, rebelled against his lord in what is known as the Kyōtoku Incident (享徳の乱, Kyōtoku-no-ran), a series of skirmishes between the Ashikaga and the Uesugi. The Toshima clan who sided with Kageharu held the castle but were eventually defeated by Kageharu's arch-rival Ōta Dōkan (太田道灌, 1432-1486). Although suppressed, Kageharu's rebellion contributed to the weakening of the Uesugi and paved the way for Hōjō Sōun(北条早雲) to establish hegemony in the Kantō region.
The abandoned Kozukue Castle was taken over by the Hōjō in 1524 and played an essential role as a strategic point of military and economic interest until Tokugawa Ieyasu entered Edo.
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This temple is Nr. 01 of the pilgrimage
. 小机領三十三所子歳観音霊場 Kozukue Nedoshi 33 Kannon .
nedoshi refers to people born in 子年（ねずみどし） the year of the rat, nezumi.

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

. Shō Kannon 聖観音 / 正観音 Sho Kannon / 聖観世音菩薩

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Koboji Fudo Hagi

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Koobooji 弘法寺　Kobo-Ji - Hagi
寄舟山 Yorifunezan 弘法寺 Koboji

萩市土原 / Hagi, Hijiwara
yorifune means "place where the ship landed"

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Nr. 09 - Shoojookoo 召請光童子 Shojoko Doji

The main statue is Fudo Myo-O 　不動明王.

When 弘法大師 Kobo Daishi came back from his travels in China, the ship he came with landed here.
Therer is not much material about the history of this temple.
. Kobo Daishi Kukai 弘法大師　空海 . - (774 - 835)

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Jodoji Kannon Akasaka

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Joodoji 浄土寺 Jodo-Ji, Akasaka
平河山 Hirakawazan　源照院　Gensho-In 浄土寺 Jodoji
Jodo 浄土 the paradise of Amida Nyorai.

港区赤坂4-3-5 /Minato ward, Akasaka

The Kannon statue is 正観世音菩薩 Sho Kannon.
The main statue is 阿弥陀如来 Amida Nyorai.

The temple was founded by 聖公和尚 Priest Seiko (? - 1503)
in Chiyoda ward, 平河 Hirakawa.
It was relocated to its present place in 1665.

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This temple is Nr. 31 of the
. 山の手三十三観音霊場 Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples along the Yamanote Line .

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

. Shō Kannon 聖観音 / 正観音 Sho Kannon / 聖観世音菩薩

. Tokyo Akasaka 赤坂 "the red slope" district .

. Hirakawachoo　平川町 Hirakawa-Cho, Hirakawa district .

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知多郡 Kita district 美浜町 Mihama town

Daikai Ryu Okami 大海龍大神 Great Dragon King of the Sea
In 1909 a huge kame 亀 turtle was washed ashore dead at the beach of 小佐 Kosa.
This turtle had appeared in the dream of the priest of 浄土寺 the Temple Jodo-Ji as an old man with white hair.
It had told the priest that if he would venerate the turtle as a deity, all his wishes would come true.
When the turtle died, the priest made a grave for it under ケヤキ a keyaki tree and prayed for it.
On the back of the turtle was an inscription 大海龍大神.
There was also an inscription of 谷村佐助 the clan of Tanimura Sasuke.
Sasuke had been to 伊勢神宮 the Great Shrine at Ise and prayed for the health and wellbeing of his clan.
A turtle appeared in his dream to let him know, his clan would be fine.
. keyaki 欅と伝説 Legends about a Zelkova tree .
. Ise Jingu 伊勢神宮 Great Shrine at Ise .
. ryuujin 竜神 /龍神 と伝説 Ryujin, Legends about the Dragon Deity .




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京都市 Kyoto city / 左京区 Sakyo ward

. Amida Nyorai Legends 阿弥陀如来と伝説 .
浄土寺 The Temple Jodo-Ji is at the foot of 如意ヶ嶽 Mount Nyoigatake (472 m).
Once there was a fire at the temple.
The statue of Amida Nyorai 阿弥陀如来 went up to the mountain and produced 大光明 a bright light to stop the fire.
Since the origin of the letter dai 大 "big",

which is lit up on the mountain in Kyoto at the end of the O-Bon rituals for the ancestors.

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Enseiji Fudo Furuhagi

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Enseiji 円政寺 Ensei-Ji - Furuhagi
月輪山 Gachirinzan 金毘羅社 Konpirasha 円政寺 Enseiji .

萩市古萩町6 / Hagi, Minamifuruhagi 6

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Constructed in 1254, Enseiji Temple has a torii gate at its entrance — despite being a temple and not a shrine — and this stone torii is a city-designated Tangible Cultural Property.
The temple grounds contain the Konpira-sha Hall (a Municipal Tangible Cultural Property) with its statues of the 12 zodiac signs.
It is an important location, being a rare example of the syncretism between Buddhism and Shinto.
The precincts also contain the rocking -horse (sacred horse) that Shinsaku Takasugi and Hirobumi Ito played with in their youth.
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The temple was built on request of 大内氏 the Ouchi clan of Hagi as their clan temple.
After the extinction of the Ouchi clan, in 1604, 毛利輝元 Mori Terumoto became regent of the region.
He relocated the temple to 塩屋町 Shioya district (now there is 多越神社 the Shrine Taetsu Jinja.

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中国四十九薬師霊場 Pilgrimage to 49 Yakushi Temples - Nr. 33
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Seiganji Kannon Sugamo

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Seiganji 清巖寺 Seigan-Ji, Nishi-Sugamo
長仙山 Chozenzan 清巖寺 Seiganji // 日照山 Nissozan　光明院 Komyo-In　清巌寺 Seiganji

東京都豊島区西巣鴨4-8-24 / Toshima ward, Nishi-Sugamo

The Kannon statue is 十一面観世音菩薩 Juichimen Kannon Bosatsu.
The main statue is 釈迦如来 Shaka Nyorai.

The temple was founded in 1615 by 国伝寒達 Kokuden Kandatsu
on request of 加藤勘助重正 Kato Kansuke Shigemasa (1575 - 1645).
Many graves of members of the Kato clan are in the compound.
It was first built in 1615 in 小日向 Kohinata.
In 1922 it was relocated to its present place.

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Shigemasa Kato 加藤重正
Shigemasa Kato (Kato Shigemasa, (1575 - 1645) ) was a samurai in the early Edo period.
He is Hatamoto. He is commonly known as Kansuke. He served Ieyasu Tokugawa, Hidetada Tokugawa, and Iemitsu Tokugawa.
His father is Shigetsune Kato. He has a daughter (Yoshinaga Omori's wife) as a child, Shigenaga Kato (the second son of Yoshinaga Omori) as an adopted child, and Masatoshi Kato.
His brothers are Masamitsu Kato, Shigekatsu Kato, and Tadashige Kato, who are separated from each other.
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Kansuke Kato Shigemasa is known as an equestrian.
His ancestor Shigehide Ueda (equestrian) taught him Ueda style equestrian. He served Ieyasu Tokugawa from the 5th year of Tensho (1577) and Hidetada Tokugawa, the second shogun from the 2nd year of Genna (1616), and received 400 stones of knowledge. Shigemasa was entrusted with Mima by Hidetada Tokugawa about the sword fighting on horseback, and became famous (there is another description that he told the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu about this).
In the 9th year of Genna (1623), when Hidetada went up, he served. In the 10th year of Kanei (1633) after Hidetada's death, he was entrusted with 30 concentric humans (guns) and was allowed to wear cloth. In the 11th year of Kanei (1634), he received 500 new stones of land, and became 900 stones in Kai and Musashi provinces.
He died on June 22, 1645. He was 71 years old.
He was buried at Seiganji Temple in Kohinata Daimachi, Koishikawa.
After that, Seiganji Temple became the burial ground of the Kato family for generations, and it is said that Shigemasa was opened with this. In 1922, Seiganji was relocated to Nishisugamo, Nishisugamo-cho, Toshima-ku (currently 4-chome, Nishisugamo, Toshima-ku) due to the expansion of the city planning road in Tokyo.
A stone pagoda with the name of Shigemasa engraved on the current Seiganji Temple still exists. It can be read as "Seiganji Ichibin Somi Daishi". Seiganin (Seiganin) in Fussa City is also known as the founder of Nakako, and the legal name of Shigemasa Kato, "Seiganin-den Ichibin Somi Daishi".
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This temple is Nr. 30 of the
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. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

. Shō Kannon 聖観音 / 正観音 Sho Kannon / 聖観世音菩薩

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

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Koyasu Kannon Legends

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Koyasu Kannon 子安観音 Legends about Kannon, the Protector of Children

. Koyasu no kami 子安の神 Deities to protect children .

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roosoku ろうそく Rosoku candles
People get a special amulet from 子安観音 Koyasu Kannon, a piece of asa 麻 hemp and a candle.
If they light the candle in the birth room, it will be an easy birth.
. roosoku ろうそく / 蝋燭 Rosoku candles .




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三豊市 Mitoyo city 詫間町 Takuma town

koyasu Kannon コヤスカンノン
The Mori family had gotten contributions from stores in Osaka and Hyogo and made offerings to Kannon Sama.
The Koyasu Kannon takes special care of children during a thunderstorm.




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Mie 河藝郡 Kawate district

Kannon sama no 7 fushigi 観音様の７不思議
白子寺家子安観音the Temple Shirakodera, where Koyasu Kannon is venerated, has 7 不思議 seven wonders:
１：境内の鳩は地面を歩けず、The pidgeons of the templenever walk on the ground.
２：雀が歩いており、The sparrows walk on the ground.
３：境内の池の鮒は片目、The crucian carp in the pond have only one eye.
４：どんな大雨でも濡れない屋根瓦がある、The roof tiles do not get wet, even during a strong rainstorm.
５：笹葉が下向きに生えている。The babmoo leaves grow downward toward the ground.
６：不断桜、The cherry tree is constantly blooming.
７：鼓ヶ浦の波の音。The sound of the waves of Tsuzumigaura beach can be heard.

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Mie 鈴鹿市 Suzuka city

Shirakozan Temple Kannon-Ji

fudan zakura 不断桜 ever-lasting cherry tree
In the compound of 白子山観音寺 - 子安観音 the Temple Shirakozan Koyasu Kannon is
an old cherry tree, which flowers all year round.

Once there was a fire at the temple, but the cherry tree kept blooming.
Emperor 聖徳天皇 Shotoku heared about it and ordered the tree to be moved to his palace garden.
There the tree withered over night.
So he had the tree moved back to the original temple.
The leaves of this everlasting cherry tree help women to have an easy birth.
If the leaves are turnes up, it will be a boy, if they are turned down it will be a girl.
. Kannonji 観音寺 Kannon-Ji 白衣山 Shirokozan 子安観音寺 Koyasu Kannonji .

. Ise Saigoku 33 Kannon 伊勢西国三十三所観音巡礼 Pilgrimage . - 観音寺 Nr. 16

. Mie Shikoku Henro Info 三重四国八十八ヵ所霊場 . - 観音寺 Nr. 16

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tsuzumi ga ura 鼓ヶ浦 Tsuzumigaura beach

The main statue of 白子山 the Temple Shirakozan is Byakue Kannon 白衣観音 Kannon in white robes,
better known as Koyasu Kannon.
The statue was washed on the beach of Tsuzumigaura, sitting on a tsuzumi 鼓 hand drum.
The sound of the waves on the beach sounds like that of a hand drum, hence the name.

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. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

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Nanbaraji Fudo Mine Isa

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Nanbaraji 南原寺 Nanbara-Ji - Isa
桜山 Kazan 南原寺 Nanbaraji

山口県美祢市伊佐町南原 / Yamaguchi, Mine city, Isa town, Nanbara

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Nr. 07 - Chiedoo Doji 智慧幢童子 Chiedo Doji 　

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Imashime Fudo 戒め不動 Fudo to remind us to be careful

- Chant of the temple
御仏の御法の 花の 桜 山　宮香は四方に 現われにけり


This temple is the oldest in Yamaguchi.
The temple was founded by 聖徳太子 Shotoku Taishi.
It is also related to 神功皇 Empress Jingu Kogo.
花山法皇 Emperor Kazan Tenno revitalized the temple.
He stayed there for a long time because of 美祢尼 the Nun Mine, who gave birth to his child.
She later became a nun at the temple 利生山永福寺 Rishozan Eifuku-Ji.

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Emperor Kazan (花山天皇, Kazan-tennō (968 – 1008)

was the 65th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Kazan's reign spanned the years from 984 through 986.
He commissioned the Shūi Wakashū.
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shuin 朱印 stamp

- Homepage of the temple
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- Yearly Festivals 年中行事 -

Time for blossom viewing - 花ごよみ
しだれ桜　　４月初旬～中旬 - Shdarezakura
シャクナゲ　４月中旬～下旬 - Shakunage
カラー　　　 5月初旬旬～6月末 - Calla 　
彼岸花　　　９月中旬～９月末 - Higanbana
紅　葉　　　１１月中旬～１２月初旬 - Momiji red autumn leaves
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神戸市 Kobe city 兵庫区 Hyogo ward // 永福寺 Eifuku-Ji

. ryuu, ryū 龍　竜　伝説　Ryu - dragon legends .
Every morning the body of the dragon on the gate of 永福寺 the Eifuku-Ji was all wet.
The dragon would go off to the nearby beach and swim.
To keep him in place, an iron wire was placed around him.

Eifuku-Ji, 兵庫県神戸市兵庫区南仲町49


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Ryusenji Kannon Aoyama

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Ryuusenji 龍泉寺 Ryusen-Ji, Aoyama
信康山 Nobuyasuzan 常法院　Joho-In 龍泉寺 Ryusenji

港区南青山2-8-25 / Minato ward, Minami-Aoyama

The Kannon statue is 子安観世音菩薩 Koyasu Kannon Bosatsu
The statue was made by 伝教大師 Dengyo Daishi.
Dengyo Daishi also made a statue of 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai.
. Dengyo Daishi Saicho 伝教大師最澄 (766 - 822) .

The history of this temple is not clear.
It was originally located in 赤坂一ツ木町 Akasaka Hitotsugi district.
The statue was then called 一ツ木観音 Hitotsugi Kannon.
Maybe the temple was relocated here by Tokugawa Ieyasu from 三河国 Mikawa, now Aichi,
where 徳川信康 Tokugawa Nobuyasu, the son of Ieyasu, committed suicide.
In 1642, priest 源譽 Genryo became the head priest there.
Genryo changed the name to 瀧泉寺 Ryusen-Ji.
After a fire in 1887, it was relocated from Akasaka.

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This temple is Nr. 29 of the
. . 山の手三十三観音霊場 Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples along the Yamanote Line .

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

.Koyasu Kannon 子安観音菩薩 Protector of Children

. Ryuusenji, Ryūsenji 龍泉寺 / 瀧泉寺 Ryusenji-Ji Temple Legends .

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Matsudaira Nobuyasu 松平信康, (1559 – 1579)

was the eldest son of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
His tsūshō ("common name") was Jirōsaburō (次郎三郎). He was called also "Okazaki Saburō" (岡崎 三郎), because he had become the lord of Okazaki Castle (岡崎城) in 1570.
Because he was a son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, he is often referred to, retroactively, as Tokugawa Nobuyasu (徳川 信康).
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Nomanji Fudo Tawarayama

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Noomanji 能満寺 Noman-Ji - Tawarayama
悉地山 Shijizan 能満寺 Nomanji

長門市俵山2441 / Yamaguchi, Nagato, Tawarayama

長門不動　Nagato Fudo

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Nr. 06 - Keishini Doji 計子爾童子

The main statue is 聖観音菩薩 Sho Kannon Bosatsu.
And a Kannon statue in the compound:

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An ancient Shingon-Buddhist temple to the west of Tawarayama Onsen.
Nouman-ji Temple was erected in 806 by the reknowned Japanese Buddhist monk Kukai, who had recently returned from a scholarly expedition to China.
Visitors to the temple today will be met with the bright scarlet of the temple gate, main hall, and small surrounding shrines at the crest of the temple's stone steps.

The ceiling of the temple's main hall is graced with ink paintings of flowers and islands by the master ink wash 雪舟 painter Sesshu, and within the small shrines dotting the temple grounds, wooden statues of the bodhisattva Kannon.
On the hill behind the temple grows a great tree (the "Shii-no-ki"), and at the crest of the hill, the temple's inner sanctum, which comprises part of a great pilgrimage path for followers of Shingon Buddhism.
Nouman-ji Temple is especially beautiful in autumn, partly for the two great gingko trees which grow on either side of its main gate.
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. Kobo Daishi Kukai 弘法大師　空海 (774 - 835) .

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. Chitose Fudo 千歳不動尊 "Fudo of one thousand years" .
星王山 Hoshiozan 寶蔵院 / 宝蔵院 Hozo-In 能満寺 Noman-Ji
川崎市高津区千年354 / Kanagawa, Kawasaki city, Takatsu ward, Chitose

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