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Eleven-Headed Kannon sacred places in Japan
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Chōkoku-ji (Iiyama Kannon)
Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Iiyama Kannon — the local name for Chōkoku-ji on the slopes of Mount Hakusan in Atsugi — has drawn pilgrims for some thirteen centuries....
Chōkoku-ji (Shiraiwa Kannon)
Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Chōkoku-ji at Shiraiwa, the Shiraiwa Kannon, is the fifteenth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage and one of the few remaining Shugendō-affiliated temples on the...
Daihō-ji
Kumakōgen, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Daihō-ji is the forty-fourth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and its symbolic midpoint, the Nakafudasho....
Dainichi-ji
Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Dainichi-ji stands directly across the road from Awa Ichinomiya Shrine, the highest-ranked Shintō shrine of Awa Province....
Enkō-ji (Myō-ō-in)
Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Enkō-ji, also known as Myō-ō-in, sits on Atago-yama above the Kusado Sengen archaeological site in Fukuyama, Hiroshima....
Ganden-ji
Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Ganden-ji — locally known as Iwadono Kannon — is the second station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho, set on a hilltop above Zushi....
Gumyō-ji
Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Gumyō-ji, the Gumyōji Kannon, is the fourteenth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage and Yokohama's oldest temple....
Hase-dera
Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Hase-dera is station 8 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Buzan-ha temple in Nara dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Hōchō-ji
Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Hōchō-ji is the seventh station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama....
Hōju-ji
Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Hōju-ji is the 62nd fudasho on the Shikoku 88, an 8th-century imperial foundation that has been moved at least four times—by flood, war, Meiji separation, and the...
Imakumano Kannon-ji
Part of Sennyū-ji
Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Imakumano Kannon-ji is station 15 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Kumano cult temple in Kyoto dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Jōrin-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Jōrin-ji, seventeenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a small Sōtō Zen temple founded as an act of warrior repentance....
Kegon-ji
Ibigawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Kegon-ji is station 33 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Gifu dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Ki-mii-dera
Sa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Ki-mii-dera is station 2 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Kuze Kannon-shū temple in Wakayama dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Kinshō-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Kinshō-ji is the fourth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Saitama, Japan....
Kongojo-ji
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Nagusayama Kongōjō-ji in Fukusaki, Hyōgo, traces its founding to 597 CE under the Korean monk Ekan during Empress Suiko's reign....
Kōnomine-ji
Yasuda, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Kōnomine-ji rests at 450 metres on Mt. Konomine, often described as the most physically demanding station on the Tosa stretch....
Nakayama-dera
Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Nakayama-dera is station 24 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism — Nakayama branch temple in Hyogo dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Nichirin-ji
Daigo, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Nichirin-ji sits on the eighth station of Mt. Yamizo, the highest peak in Ibaraki....
Rokuharamitsu-ji
Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Rokuharamitsu-ji is station 17 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Kūya nembutsu temple in Kyoto dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Ryuukou-ji
Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Ryūkō-ji is the forty-first temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and one of its most visible cases of shinbutsu-shūgō, the older Japanese practice of holding kami and Buddha...
Saimyō-ji
Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Saimyō-ji, station 20 of the Bandō Kannon pilgrimage, sits on the wooded slopes of Mt. Tokkō east of Mashiko....
Sairin-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Sairin-ji is the forty-eighth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and the Sekisho of Iyo, the spiritual checkpoint of the Iyo (Ehime) leg of the four-province circuit....
Saizen-ji
Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saizen-ji is the eighth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama. The Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji school sits at the northern foot of Mt....
Sakami-ji
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Izumi-shōzan Sagami-ji in Kasai, Hyōgo, was founded by imperial command in 745 after the priest Gyōki received an oracle from Sagami Myōjin, a local kami in the Sumiyoshi...
Sankaku-ji
Shikokuchūō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Sankaku-ji sits at roughly 450 metres above the industrial coast of Shikokuchūō, the sixty-fifth temple of the Shikoku 88 and the last of twenty-six temples in Ehime....
Sanuki Kokubun-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 80 Sanuki Kokubun-ji in Takamatsu is the working successor to one of the eighth-century kokubunji — the provincial protection-temples ordered by Emperor Shōmu in...
Shido-ji
Sanuki, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Shido-ji stands beside Shido Bay on the Sanuki coast as the eighty-sixth temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Shōfuku-ji
Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Shōfuku-ji — popularly known as Iizumi Kannon — is the fifth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho and one of the most active Shingon Kannon temples in Kanagawa....
Shōraku-ji (Senjū-in)
Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Shōraku-ji, also known as Senju-in, sits on a low hill in Bizen and serves as Temple #3 of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage. The honzon is a hibutsu Eleven-Faced Kannon....
Shōrin-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Shōrin-ji, fifteenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Rinzai Zen temple of the Kenchō-ji branch on the historic Banba-machi neighbourhood of central...
Sugimoto-dera
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Sugimoto-dera is the first station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — Kamakura's oldest Buddhist temple, where three Eleven-Headed Kannon statues from successive Heian centuries...
Taisan-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 52 of the Shikoku henro stands northwest of Matsuyama in cypress and bamboo forest....
Tennō-ji
Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 79 Tennō-ji in Sakaide is named for the body of an emperor — Sutoku, exiled after the Hōgen Disturbance of 1156 and dead in Sanuki in 1164....
Yashima-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Yashima-ji crowns the mesa of Yashima, 293 metres above the Seto Inland Sea, and is the eighty-fourth temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Zenjibu-ji
Nankoku, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Zenjibu-ji rests on the cliff-edge of Hachiyō-san — Eight-Petalled Lotus Mountain — above Urado Bay....
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