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Thousand-Armed Kannon sacred places in Japan
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An'yō-in
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
An'yō-in is the third station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — a small Jōdo-shū temple in Kamakura founded as Hōjō Masako's grief-prayer for her husband Minamoto no Yoritomo,...
Fujii-dera
Fujiidera, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Fujii-dera is station 5 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Omuro-ha temple in Osaka dedicated to Senju Kannon. Founded in the early 8th century....
Gyōgan-ji (Kōdō)
Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Gyōgan-ji (Kōdō) is station 19 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism, Miyako Shichifukujin temple in Kyoto dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Hōgon-ji
Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Hogon-ji is station 30 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Buzan-ha, Benzaiten devotion temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Iyadani-ji
Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Iyadani-ji is one of three reizan — spirit mountains — of Shikoku, places where the souls of the dead are traditionally felt to gather....
Jion-ji
Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Jion-ji is the twelfth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage, founded by tradition in the early ninth century by Ennin and named for Daji'en-si in Tang Chang'an —...
Kannon-ji
Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Kannon-ji sits in a quiet residential street in Tokushima City, where the bell tower gate marks an unexpected threshold from ordinary domestic life into a small sacred...
Kannonshō-ji
Ōmihachiman, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Kannonshō-ji is station 32 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Katsuō-ji
Minoh, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Katsuō-ji is station 23 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Kōyasan Shingon-shū temple in Osaka dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Kirihata-ji
Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Kirihata-ji rises 155 metres above the Yoshino plain on the slope of Mt. Kirihata....
Kiyomizu-dera
Katō, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Banshu Kiyomizu-dera is station 25 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Hyogo dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Kokawa-dera
Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Kokawa-dera is station 3 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism — Tendai-Kokawa-ha, Katsuragi Shugendō tradition temple in Wakayama dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Kongōfuku-ji
Tosashimizu, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Kongōfuku-ji is the thirty-eighth stop on the Shikoku 88, set at the tip of Cape Ashizuri — the southernmost point of Shikoku....
Kumadani-ji
Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Kumadani-ji is Temple 8 of the Shikoku 88, in Awa, Tokushima. The 1687 Niōmon is one of the largest gates on the entire 88-temple route, designated a Tokushima Cultural...
Mangan-ji
Tochigi, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Izurusan Mangan-ji, station 17 of the Bandō Kannon pilgrimage, sits in a karst valley north of Tochigi City....
Meiseki-ji
Seiyo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Meiseki-ji is the forty-third temple of the Shikoku 88 and one of the few stops not affiliated with Shingon....
Mimuroto-ji
Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Mimuroto-ji is station 10 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Honzan Shugen-shū temple in Kyoto dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Minamihokke-ji (Tsubosaka-dera)
Takatori, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Minamihokke-ji (Tsubosaka-dera) is station 6 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism — Tsubosaka temple in Nara dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Mizusawa-dera
Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Mizusawa-dera, the sixteenth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho Kannon pilgrimage, sits on the wooded slopes below Ikaho Onsen....
Negoro-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Negoro-ji stands at 365 metres on the slopes of Mt. Aomine, deep in the cedar forest of the Goshikidai plateau....
Ōya-ji
Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Ōya-ji, station 19 of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho, sits inside a natural rock-shelter overhang of Ōya tuff in Utsunomiya....
Ryūseki-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Ryūseki-ji is the nineteenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen temple whose hall sits not on a foundation but on a single mass of conglomerate...
Saidai-ji (Okayama)
Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Saidai-ji Kannon-in opens the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage in eastern Okayama. Founded in the eighth century around a Senju Kannon image said to have chosen this spot by...
Saikō-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saikō-ji, sixteenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Shingon Buzan-ha temple whose Senju (Thousand-Armed) Kannon is traditionally attributed to the Nara...
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...
Sefuku-ji
Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Sefuku-ji is station 4 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism, Katsuragi Shugendō / Mountain ascetic tradition temple in Osaka dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Senyū-ji
Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Senyū-ji crowns Mt. Sakurei south of Imabari, the 58th temple of the Shikoku 88....
Shiromine-ji
Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Shiromine-ji sits at 280 metres on a forested ridge of the Goshikidai plateau in Kagawa, the eighty-first temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Shōbō-ji
Higashimatsuyama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Shōbō-ji on Mount Iwadono, known for thirteen centuries as Iwadono Kannon, began as a single rock-cave hermitage where the shugendō ascetic Itsumi enshrined a Senju Kannon...
Shōhō-ji (Iwama-dera)
Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Shōhō-ji (Iwama-dera) is station 12 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Daigoji-ha temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Sōji-ji
Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Sōji-ji is station 22 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Kōyasan Shingon-shū temple in Osaka dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Tosa Kokubun-ji
Nankoku, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Tosa Kokubun-ji holds dual identity: imperial provincial temple of ancient Tosa Province and Temple 29 of the Shikoku Pilgrimage....
Unpen-ji
Miyoshi, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Unpen-ji sits at 927 metres on the ridge between Tokushima and Kagawa, the highest temple of the Shikoku 88 and the gateway to the Nirvana stage of the pilgrimage....
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....
Yokei-ji
Setouchi, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Yokei-ji crowns Ueterasan, a low hill above the rice plains of Setouchi City. Founded in the eighth century and long affiliated with the Tendai school, the temple holds...
Yoshimine-dera
Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Yoshimine-dera is station 20 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Kyoto dedicated to Senju Kannon....
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