Shiofune Kannon-ji

Shiofune Kannonji is a living Shingon Buddhist temple in Ome. Let its architecture and historical associations orient the visit without displacing the worship, teaching, memorial practice, service, and care through which communities make meaning. Distinguish institutional tradition from independently documented history, especially in foundation, miraculous, political-memory, or popular-origin claims. Read it through documented identity and living religious practice, not as a star rating or promise of transformation.

Approach slowly, read the room before acting, and let regular worshippers set the pace.

A map marks Shiofune Kannon-ji's threshold, not its meaning for every devotee. Attend quietly: notice how people enter, pause, and respect protected spaces, but do not assign a single mood, energy, or spiritual effect, imitate worshippers, or intrude.

The cited sources identify Shiofune Kannon-ji as an exact Shingon Buddhism institution and provide the bounded historical context summarized here.

The site's present form reflects continuity as well as rebuilding, institutional change, and the work of successive communities. Specific claims are limited to the cited record.

Begin at the present threshold, not with a checklist. Put away conversation and devices during worship, yield to people making offerings or attending services, and accept closures without pressing for access. A respectful visit may be brief. Its value does not depend on witnessing a ceremony, entering every building, or producing photographs.

Use the official site and posted notices to distinguish public grounds from worship, residential, administrative, memorial, or conservation spaces.

Shiofune Kannonji is the special head temple of the Daigo school of the Shingon sect, located in Shiofune, Ome City, Tokyo. The mountain name is Daihizan. The 72nd temple of the 88 sacred sites in the Kanto region, the 13th temple of Tokyo's 100 flower temples in eastern Japan, and the 59th temple of the 88 sacred sites in Okutama and Shikoku. Song: ``I won't forget, but I'll come to you, and I'll ride on the winding boat.

'' According to legend, it began during the Taika era (645-650) when Yaobikuni of Wakasa Province enshrined a thousand-armed Kannon statue in purple gold.

The name ``Shiofune'' is said to have come from Gyoki's visit to this area during the Tenpyo period (729 - 749), who compared it to the ``Kousen no Fune'', which was a boat of great desire on which Buddha attempted to save sentient beings, because it was surrounded by small hills and resembled the shape of a boat.

Shiofune Kannon-ji belongs to the living Shingon Buddhism context documented by its institutional and exact-entity sources.

Enter quietly, bow at thresholds where local custom indicates, and make offerings only at the provided place. Clapping is not part of ordinary Buddhist temple worship. Incense, chanting, copying sutras, or circumambulation should be joined only when the temple invites visitors to do so.

Follow Shiofune Kannon-ji's own guidance; another visitor's actions do not establish permission.

Notice the threshold, the order of movement, and the care given to sacred objects without turning observation into performance.

Read Shiofune Kannon-ji through its living Shingon Buddhism community alongside documented history, architecture, and urban context.

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1. 01塩船観音寺 公式ホームページ 花と歴史の寺 新東京百景 青梅塩船 トップページ — 塩船観音寺officialCustodian source for identity and current visitor information; time-sensitive details require rechecking.
2. 02塩船観音寺 — Japanese Wikipedia contributorsacademicJapanese exact-entity history and terminology; automated translation, when used, requires editorial verification.
3. 03Wikidata entity Q6587259 — Wikidata contributorsacademicStructured identity and coordinate cross-check; matched within 128 meters of the Google place record.
4. 04Shiofune Kannon-ji Google Maps place record — GoogleSource contextExact place ID used for address, coordinates, website, hours, and operational-status matching; rating is not publication evidence.
5. 05File:Shiofunekannonji.jpg — Wikimedia Commons contributorsacademicExact-subject image description and reusable-license record.