Renjoji Yakushi Uchiyama

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Renjooji 蓮城寺 Renjo-Ji, Uchiyama
有智山 Yuchizan 蓮城寺 Renjoji

大分県豊後大野市三重町内山527 / Oita, Bungo Ono city, Miemachi, Uchiyama

The Yakushi statue is Sentai Yakushi 千体薬師 One Thousand Yakushi Statues.

The Yakushi Hall　薬師堂.

Yakushi Sanzon 薬師三尊 Yakushi and two side statues

Another statue is 内山観音 Uchiyama Kannon.
千手観音 Senju Kannon Statue, 96 cm high.

The date of the founding is not clear.
This is the only temple with 1000 statues of Yakushi Nyorai in Japan.
They were maybe made in the Muromachi period (1336 - 1573).

In the compound is kosodate Jizo 子育て地蔵 Jizo Bosatsu to bring up children

In the compound is also a statue of Hannya Hime 般若姫 Princess Hannya.

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Also on the following pilgrimages :
Renjoji is temple 27 on the Shingon Kyushu 108 temple Pilgrimage
The official version of the introduction of Buddhism into Japan has the king of Paekche sending a statue to the Yamato court in the mid 6th Century, but that ignores the fact that northern Kyushu and the Japan Sea coast, much closer to the peninsula, had extensive contacts and interactions with Korea, and it seems highly unlikely that Buddhism did not appear in these areas before then.
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This temple is Nr. 17 of the pilgrimage
. 49 Yakushi Temples in Kyushu 九州四十九薬師霊場 .

. 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai Bhaisajyaguru .
the Buddha of Medicine and Healing
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Jiganji Kannon Yamacho

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Jiganji 慈眼寺 Jigan-Ji, Yamacho
瑞應山 Zuiozan　慈眼寺Jiganji

神奈川県横浜市緑区寺山町229 / Kanagawa, Yokohama city, Midori ward, Yamacho town

The Kannon statue is 十一面観 Juichimen Kannon.

The main statue is 不動明王 Fudo Myo-O.

The date of the founding is not clear.
It used to be called 観音院 Kannon-In with a statue of 観音如来 Kannon Nyorai.
Later the main statue of Fudo Myo-O was installed.

The Kannon Hall 観音堂.

The Kannon Statue in the compound.

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shuin　朱印 stamp : 十一面大士
juuichimen daiji / daishi 十一面大士 mahasattva.
daiji 大士 is another name for a Bodhisattva.

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This temple is Nr. 29 of the pilgrimage
. 小机領三十三所子歳観音霊場 Kozukue Nedoshi 33 Kannon .
nedoshi 子年 （ねずみどし） refers to the year of the rat, 鼠 nezumi.

. 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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....................................................................... Nagano 長野県　
伊那市 Ina city

. tanuki 狸 - mujina 狢 － racoon dog, badger legends .
Once upon a time, on an evening before the house was to be rebuilt,
the grandparents were in the back room and the children were eating dinner there.
The parents were working near the fire place.
Nearby was 慈眼寺 the Temple Chigan-Ji with a great tree in the compound.
The parents heard the sound of the great tree falling down.
They got terribly afraid and rushed to the back room but there nobody had heard anything.
A tanuki had come to the back of the hearth and used its tail to hit the pillars and the floor.




....................................................................... Saitama 埼玉県　
さいたま市 Saitama city 西区 Nishi ward

. Yao Bikuni 八百比丘尼（やおびくに） .
"eight-hundred (years) Buddhist priestess") or Happyaku Bikuni
at the temple 慈眼寺 Jigen-Ji.

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Tosenji Fudo Segasaki

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Toosenji 東泉寺 Tosen-Ji, Segasaki
光珠山 Terumizan / 青柳山 Aoyagizan 普光院 Fuko-In 東泉寺 Tosenji

さいたま市浦和区瀬ヶ崎2-15-3 / Saitama city, Urawa ward, Segasaki

The Fudo Myo-O statue is 厄除不動尊 Yakuyoke Fudo.
. Yakuyoke Fudo 厄除不動 Fudo to ward off evil .

The main statue is 阿弥陀如来像 Amida Nyorai (阿弥陀三尊).

. Amida Nyorai 阿弥陀如来 .

The date of the founding is not clear.
The temple was founded by . 慈覚大師円仁 Jigaku Daishi Ennin .
Ennin carved a statue of 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai for the 薬師堂 Yakushi-Do Hall.
The temple was repaired by 玄性 priest Gensho.
The head priest 円海 Enkai of the 14th generation died in 1718.
In 1885 the temple was moved to 木崎村 Kizaki village.
It was used as a school in Kizaki village.
The temple was a subtemple of 中尾村吉祥寺 Kichijo-Ji in Nakao village.

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Terakoya 寺子屋 "Temple School" - once a month
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Also on the following pilgrimages :

. Shin Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage 新秩父三十四ヶ所霊場 . - Nr. 12 - 如意輪観音 Nyoirin Kannon

. 武蔵東向寅薬師足立十二札所 Tora 寅 year of the Tiger .
12 Temples for Yakushi Nyorai in Adachi - Nr. 4.

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This Temple is Nr. 14 of the
. Adachi 100 Fudo Temples 足立百不動尊霊場 Pilgrimage .

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There are many temples with this name in Japan.

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. Kita Adachi 88 Fudo Temples 北足立八十八ヵ所霊場 .

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Toyoji Yakushi Oita

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Tooyooji 當陽寺 Toyo-Ji, Oita
高雄山 Takaozan 當陽寺 Toyoji

大分県大分市市尾192 / Oita, Oita city, Ichio

The main statue is 釈迦牟尼佛 Amida Nyorai.
Another statue is 聖観音菩薩 Sho Kannon Bosatsu.

The Otomo clan was regent of six countries in Northern Kyusho until the 21 generation
大友宗麟 Otomo Yoshishige (1530 - 1587).
Ōtomo Yoshishige, Ōtomo Sōrin, also known as Fujiwara no Yoshishige.
When Yoshishige turned Christian, he took the name of ドン・フランシスコ Don Francisco.
During the wars in Kyushi, his retainers even destroyed Buddhist temples.
Temple Toyo-Ji was also destroyed.
Around 1670, it was restored by 河野九兵衛 Kano Kyubei.
At that time it was a sub-temple of 臼杵月桂寺 the Temple Gekkei-Ji in Usuki.

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Ōtomo Sōrin (大友宗麟, January 31, 1530 – June 11, 1587),

also known as Fujiwara no Yoshishige (藤原 義鎮) or Ōtomo Yoshishige (大友 義鎮),
was a Japanese feudal lord (daimyō) of the Ōtomo clan, one of the few to have converted to Roman Catholicism (Christianity). The eldest son of Ōtomo Yoshiaki, he inherited the Funai Domain, on Kyūshū, Japan's southernmost main island, from his father.
He is perhaps most significant for having appealed to Toyotomi Hideyoshi to intervene in Kyūshū against the Shimazu clan, thus spurring Hideyoshi's Kyūshū Campaign of 1587.
- Conflict with Mori
- Conversion to Christianity
- Conflict with Shimazu
- More in the wikipedia

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This temple is Nr. 16 of the pilgrimage
. 49 Yakushi Temples in Kyushu 九州四十九薬師霊場 .

. 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai Bhaisajyaguru .
the Buddha of Medicine and Healing

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Sanbutsuji Kannon Honmura

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Sanbutsuji 三佛寺 Sanbutsu-Ji, Honmura
鶴峰山 Kakureizan 即相院 Sosoku-In 三佛寺 Sanbutsuji

神奈川県横浜市旭区本村町76 / Kanagawa, Yokohama city, Asahi ward, Honmura town

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

The temple was originally called 観音寺 Kannon-Ji.
Beside Kannon, there were halls for of Amida Nyorai, Yakushi Nyorai and Jizo Bosatsu.
Since these were three statues, the temple was called Sanbutsu-Ji, "Temple for three Buddhas."
In 1603, it was founded by 誉檀察上人 Saint Tenyo Dansatsu.
The temple was founded on request of 宅間治部少輔親富 Takuma Jibu , who died in 1621.

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sooban nenbutsu 双盤念仏 "Special Drum Nenbutsu"
October 27

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This temple is Nr. 28 of the pilgrimage
. 小机領三十三所子歳観音霊場 Kozukue Nedoshi 33 Kannon .
nedoshi 子年 （ねずみどし） refers to the year of the rat, 鼠 nezumi.

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Avalokiteshvara .

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

. Mitokusan Sanbutsu-Ji 三徳山三仏寺 Tottori .
with the famous 投入堂 Nageiredo "Temple Hall thrown into the cliffs"

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Shin Chichibu Kannon Pilgrimage

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Shin Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage 新秩父三十四ヶ所霊場

The pilgrimage was probably started before 1786.

There are 100 Kannon Statues to be venerated on three main Kannon pilgrimages:
100 Kannon statues of Saikoku, Bando and Chichibu.
西国三十三番 33、坂東三十三番 33、秩父三十四番観音霊場 34.
With 34 temples in Chichibu, it makes 100 Kannon Temples.

01 笹丸観音堂（聖観音）さいたま市見沼区笹丸49 - Sasamaru Kannon-Do
02 江長山光徳寺（聖観音）さいたま市見沼区膝子315
03 無量山円徳寺（聖観音）さいたま市緑区下野田429
04 慈眼山大興寺（聖観音）さいたま市緑区大門2588
05 阿日山惣持院（聖観音）さいたま市緑区南部領辻2944
06 染谷観音堂（馬頭観音）さいたま市見沼区染谷1738自治会館
07 堂山（馬頭観音）さいたま市見沼区片柳1373-3根本輪公会堂
08 見沼堂（馬頭観音）さいたま市見沼区片柳27（個人所有）
09 馬頭山宝蔵院（馬頭観音）さいたま市緑区山崎1-16-6

10 中原堂（白衣観音）さいたま市緑区三室
11 前窪堂（聖観音）さいたま市浦和区木崎5-6-17
12 青柳山東泉寺（如意輪観音）さいたま市浦和区瀬ケ崎2-15-3 . 12 東泉寺 Tosen-Ji .
13 宝珠山吉祥寺（十一面観音）さいたま市緑区中尾１４１０
14 中尾堂（十一面観音）さいたま市緑区中尾１３９２
15 桑原堂（聖観音）さいたま市緑区中尾
16 観音堂（聖観音）さいたま市緑区中尾２３２２
17 西林山長覚院（聖観音）さいたま市緑区領家4-20-3
18 相之谷堂（正観音）さいたま市浦和区上木崎7-15-10
19 光珠山正福寺（正観音）さいたま市浦和区上木崎7-19-1

20 本地堂（聖観音）さいたま市浦和区上木崎6-21-9
21 東光寺（馬頭観音）さいたま市大宮区宮町3-6（旧万日堂）
22 天沼観音堂（子安観音）さいたま市大宮区天沼町2-908
23 慈眼山円蔵院（十一面観音）さいたま市見沼区中川540
24 慈眼山円蔵院（旧宝乗院）（如意輪観音）さいたま市見沼区中川540
25 勅命山宝生院（正観音）さいたま市見沼区御蔵90御蔵自治会館
26 自在山正福寺（十一面観音）さいたま市見沼区蓮沼770
27 大島堂（正観音）さいたま市見沼区南中丸289
28 海鏡山覚蔵院 Kakuzo-In（如意輪観音）さいたま市見沼区深作784 . 28 塩谷寺 Enkoku-Ji (Kakuzo-In .
29 深作山宝積寺 Hoshaku-Ji（旧観音寺）（十一面観音）さいたま市見沼区小深作3-38-1

30 太悲山慈眼寺（聖観音）さいたま市見沼区小深作神明神社境内
31 宮ヶ谷塔観音堂（馬頭観音）さいたま市見沼区宮ヶ谷塔3-168
32 観音堂（十一面観音）さいたま市見沼区新堤19-2
33 鷲嶽山大円寺陽光殿（旧天神山）（如意輪観音）さいたま市見沼区風渡野335
34 鷲嶽山大円寺（聖観音）さいたま市見沼区風渡野335 - Daien-Ji

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There is another 34 Kannon pilgrimage in Chichibu
秩父三十四ヵ所霊場
秩父三十四ヵ所霊場は、秩父郡市にある札所を巡礼する観音霊場で、
坂東三十三所霊場、西国三十三所霊場と合わせて日本百観音霊場となる著名な霊場です。開創については、新編武蔵風土記稿では正暦5年（994）播州書写山円通寺性空上人の創設とも記載、また、「長享二年（1488）秩父札所番付」が法性寺に残されていることから、少なくとも長享2年（1488）以前に成立、公式サイトでは、文暦元年(1234)3月18日開創とし、古くから巡礼が続けられている霊場です。
01 誦経山四萬部寺 - 秩父市栃谷418 - Shinbabu-Ji Shimbabu-Ji
34 水潜寺（秩父郡皆野町大字下日野沢3522） - Suisen-Ji
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There is one more 34 Kannon pilgrimage in Chichibu
Jun Chichibu 准秩父三十四観音霊場は、横浜市 Yokohama, 川崎市 Kawasaki にある寺院の観音像を巡拝する札所霊場で、
12年に１度の午歳に本尊が開帳されるといいます。
Every 12 years in the year of the horse the secret Kannon Statue is shown.

Apart from the normal types of Kannon statues, there are
不空羂索（けんじゃく）観音菩薩 Fuku Kenjaku Kannon / ふくうけんさくかんのん Fuku Kensaku Kannon / Fukūkenjaku Kannon
准胝（じゅんてい）観音菩薩 Jundei Kannon
楊柳観世音菩薩 Yoryu Kannon
01 下田山真福寺（横浜市港北区下田町3-11-5） - Shinpuku-Ji
34 鵜目山清林寺（横浜市都筑区大棚町250） - Seirin-Ji
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Chogakuin Fudo Ryoke

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Choogakuin 長覺院 Chogaku-In, Ryoke
西林山 Seirinzan 長覺院 Chogakuin 浄泰寺 Jodai-Ji

埼玉県さいたま市浦和区領家4-20-3 / Saitama city, Urawa district, Ryoke

The main statue is 阿弥陀如来像 Amida Nyorai.

The temple was founded in 830 by 慈覚大師 Priest Ennin.
In the Edo period it was a terakoya 寺小屋 Temple school.
Now it in the compound of 浦和市立木崎小学校 Kisaki primary school in Urawa.
. Jigaku Daishi Ennin 慈覚大師仁円 (794 - 867) .

. Bussokuseki 仏足石 Buddha's footprints .

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This Temple is Nr. 13 of the
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Ryukoji Yakushi Oita

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Ryuukooji 龍興寺 Ryuko-Ji,　Oita
瑞雲山 Zuiunzan 龍興寺　Ryukoji

大分県大分市徳島1-7-27 / Oita, Oita city, Tokushima

The main statue is 釈迦牟尼仏 Shakyamuni Buddha.

The temple was founded in 1385 by 高獄禅師 Zen Priest Kodake
on request of 大友泰氏 Otomo Ujiyasu (1321 - 1362)
after he was able to go upstream of the river 大野川 Ono.
It became the family temple of the Otomo clan.
In 1688 Priest Tachido 湛堂和尚 renovated the hall and added
鎮守堂 Chinju-Do Hall and 地蔵堂 the Jizo-Do Hall.
He also venerated 弁財天 the Deity Benzaiten.
The temple was often prone to flooding.
In 1932 the river 大野川 Ono was relocated and the temple removed to its present location

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This temple is Nr. 15 of the pilgrimage
. 49 Yakushi Temples in Kyushu 九州四十九薬師霊場 .

. 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai Bhaisajyaguru .
the Buddha of Medicine and Healing

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Otomo Ujiyasu 大友氏泰 Ōtomo Ujiyasu
Ujiyasu OTOMO (1321-1362) was a military commander over the latter half of the Kamakura Period and the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan).
He was the seventh family head of the OTOMO clan. His father, Sadamune OTOMO was the sixth family head (Ujiyasu was his fifth son). His mother was Sadatsune SHONI's daughter.
His childhood name was Chiyomatsumaru.
His father, who was to revolt against the bakufu government in the face of death, let him succeed to the family estate in 1333 before he attacked Hidetoki HOJO (Hidetoki AKAHASHI) of Chinzei tandai (office of the military governor of Kyushu).
It is said that his father gave the family estate to Ujiyasu, who was his fifth son, instead of Ujiyasu's older brothers who had all reached adulthood, because the father thought the government would possibly not be apt to confiscate the family estate from the little child Ujisaki even if he was defeated to death in the battle.
In December of the same year, his father suddenly died in Kyoto and he officially became the head of the family, but as he was still young, his older brother, Sadatoshi OTOMO assisted him in governing.
When ASHIKAGA Takauji disobeyed the Godaigo Emperor and fled to Kyushu, Ujiyasu helped him to fight back.
Due to this contribution, after the Muromachi shogunate was established, he was appointed Shugo (military governor) of Hizen Province, Buzen Province, Hyuga Province as well as Bungo Province.
He died in 1362, passing on the family estate to his younger brother, Ujitoki OTOMO.
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Chogenji Kannon Kamikawai

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Choogenji 長源寺 Chogen-Ji, Kamikawai
川井山 Kawaizan 　観音院 Kannon-In 長源寺 Chogenji

神奈川県横浜市旭区上川井町214 / Kanagawa, Yokohama city, Asahi ward, Kami-Kawai town

The Kannon statue is 十一面観音 Juichimen Kannon.
長源寺観音堂 Kannon Hall

The main statue is a seated 大日如来 Dainichi Nyorai.
It was made in 1513 by 印融 Enyu (1435 - 1519).
Enyu was born in Yokohama, 緑区三保町 Midori ward, Miho Town.
He studied carving at 三會寺 the Temple Sanei-Ji and at 鶴岡八幡宮 the Shrine Tsurugaoka Hachimangu in Kamakura.
He also studied at 高野山で Mount Koyasan.
He later returned to the Kanto area and stayed at 三會寺 the Temple Sanei-Ji

The date of the founding of Temple Chogen-Ji is not clear.

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This temple is Nr. 27 of the pilgrimage
. 小机領三十三所子歳観音霊場 Kozukue Nedoshi 33 Kannon .
nedoshi 子年 （ねずみどし） refers to the year of the rat, 鼠 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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....................................................................... Fukui 福井県
敦賀市 Tsuruga city

Amida no keshin 弥陀の化身 an incarnation of Amida
In the waterfall gorge near 長源寺 the Temple Chogen-Ji there once came a Samurai.
He wanted to quench his thirst and came close to the waterfall
when he saw a beautiful woman standing under the waterfall.
The Samurai looked in surprize when the woman told him:
"If you keep looking at me all the time, it will be late for you to go home.
Better go to 長源寺 the Temple Chogen-Ji nearby and become a monk."
Thus the Samurai became a monk.
The woman is said to have been an incarnation of Amida Nyorai.
. Amida Nyorai　阿弥陀如来 .

長源寺（福井県小浜市）




....................................................................... Nagano　長野県
飯田市 Iida city 箕瀬町 Minoze town

kooryuu 蛟龍 snake-dragon， Shichimen Sama 七面様，Kissho Tennyo 吉祥天女
The origin of Choogenji 長源寺 the temple Chogen-Ji in Minoze town:
On a night in December of the year 1276, 日蓮聖人 Saint Nichiren gave a lecture at 身延山 Minobusan in Yamanashi.
One of the listeners was a young woman of abuot 18 years.
When Nichiren asked her why she had come, she said the was Kissho Tennyo 吉祥天女 the heavenly maiden Kissho.
and asked for water. When she got water, she turned into a small 蛟龍 Snake-Dragon
and took off into the Western Sky.
This was the incarnation of the Deity 七面大明神 Shichimen Daimyojin.

. kooryuu 蛟龍 / 蛟竜 Koryu, mythical snake-dragon monster .




....................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県　
山梨市 Yamanashi city

kani 蟹 crab

Once upon a time, a strange unsui 雲水 itinerant monk came visiting the priest at 長源寺 the Temple Chogen-Ji.
When the priest could not answer the question of the monk, he hit his head and left.
Very soon the priest died of the wound of his head.
The real identity of the itinerant monk was kani 蟹 a crab.
They soon came after the crab-monk and killed him.
The name of the temple became 蟹沢山 長源寺 Kanisawazan, Chogen-Ji.

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Shofukuji Fudo Kamikizaki

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Shoofukuji 正福寺 Shofuku-Ji, Kami-Kizaki
光珠山 Kogyokuzan 無量院 Muryo-In 正福寺 Shofukuji

埼玉県さいたま市浦和区上木崎7-19-1 / Saitama city, Urawa ward, Kamikizaki

The main statue is 正観世音菩薩 Sho Kannon Bosatsu.

The date of the founding is not clear.
It is mentioned in the manuscript 新編武蔵風土記稿 Shinpen Musashi Fudoki Ko.
Manuscript of the Gazetteer of the Province of Musashi

正福寺 鐘楼 the Bell Tower of Temple Shofuku-Ji

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This Temple is Nr. 12 of the
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