Shō Kannon (Holy Kannon)

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Anao-ji

Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Anao-ji is station 21 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Kyoto dedicated to Shō Kannon....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Anraku-ji

Yoshimi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Anraku-ji, the Yoshimi Kannon, is the eleventh station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Boku'un-ji

Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Boku'un-ji is the sixth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Daiji-ji

Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Daiji-ji, the tenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Sōtō Zen temple founded in 1490 in the Yokoze hills....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Dōji-dō

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Dōji-dō is the twenty-second station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — literally 'Children's Hall,' a Shingon Buzan-ha temple where Kannon has been invoked for...

Sacred focus

Buddhism

En'yū-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

En'yū-ji is the twenty-sixth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — a Rinzai Zen temple of the Kenchō-ji branch with an unusual feature: the Iwai-dō, a stage-built...

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Entsū-ji

Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Entsū-ji crowns a small mountain in Tamashima, Kurashiki, and serves as Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage station #7....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Henshō-ji (Hōkai-in)

Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Henshō-ji, also known as Hōkai-in, sits at the base of wooded Kongōsan in northern Okayama City....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Hōsen-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōsen-ji is the twenty-fourth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — a Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji branch that, until the mid-19th century, was a Shugendō...

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Ichijō-ji

Kasai, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Ichijo-ji is station 26 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Hyogo dedicated to Shō Kannon....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Ichinomiya-ji

Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Ichinomiya-ji is the eighty-third temple of the Shikoku circuit and the only one historically tied to a province's principal Shinto shrine....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Iwanoue-dō

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Iwanoue-dō is the twentieth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Rinzai Zen hall of the Nanzen-ji branch perched on a bluff above the Arakawa river....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Jōsen-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Jōsen-ji is the third station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Saitama, Japan....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Kannon-ji

Kan'onji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Kannon-ji shares its precinct on Mt. Kotohiki with Jinne-in at Temple 68, but the two temples have separate histories and separate identities....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Kannon-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Kannon-ji is the twenty-first station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buzan-ha temple in central Chichibu locally known as Yano-dō ('Arrow Hall')....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Kiyotaki-ji

Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Kiyotaki-ji is the 26th Bandō station, a quiet Shingon-Buzan temple on the lower slopes of Mt. Ryūgamine in rural Tsuchiura....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Kōmyō-ji

Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Kōmyō-ji at Mount Kaname — known to villagers and mothers as Kaname Kannon — preserves a Sacred Kannon said to have been found in the sea by an ama diver in 702 CE....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Kyūshō-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Kyūshō-ji is the twenty-fifth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — a Sōtō Zen temple known by its older nickname Otehan-dera, 'Hand-Seal Temple,' for the legend...

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Nagao-ji

Sanuki, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Nagao-ji is the eighty-seventh of the eighty-eight Shikoku temples — the second-to-last, set in the open Nagao district of Sanuki under an enormous camphor canopy....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Nariai-ji

Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Nariai-ji is station 28 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Hashidate Shingon-shū temple in Kyoto dedicated to Shō Kannon....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Nosaka-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Nosaka-ji, twelfth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji branch formed by the 1741 merger of an older Kannon-dō with...

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Ongaku-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Ongaku-ji is the twenty-third station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — a Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji branch whose name means 'music.' Founded by tradition...

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Sensō-ji

Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan

Sensō-ji, the Asakusa Kannon, is the thirteenth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage and Tokyo's oldest temple....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Shimabu-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Shimabu-ji is the first temple of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Saitama, Japan....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Shimpuku-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Shinpuku-ji is the second station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage and the temple whose late-Muromachi addition raised the Chichibu count to 34....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Shōkoku-ji

Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Shōkoku-ji at Mount Myōhō — known for over a millennium as Hoshi-no-ya Kannon, the Valley of Stars Kannon — gathers folk-mystical phenomena around a Sacred Kannon honzon....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Yakuri-ji

Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Yakuri-ji clings to the western slope of Mt. Goken at 375 metres, the eighty-fifth temple of the Shikoku circuit....