Ganjoji — Local services in Kobe

I walked eastward along the bus street. I took another bus from Yumenochosanchome Bus Stop to Ishibashi Bus Stop to go to the next destination instead of making a downfall like a stag.

Fukuhara 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #15 Ganjo-ji Temple Taira Michimori (1153-1184) was killed in the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani on March 20, 1184. On the previous night, he invited his wife from the ship, reluctant to part from her. The Tale of the Heike depicts situation this way: "Then Noritsune, taking with him his elder brother Echizentir-no-sammi Michimori, set out for the hills. And these were the hills that lay at the foot of the pass called Hiyodori-goe, behind Ichi-no-tani. Michimori, however, called his wife to the camp of Noritsune in order that he might make a tender farewell before the expedition." As Hiyodori-goe was over the hills behind Ganjo-ji Temple, it might have been around the temple that Michinori might have called his wife. After being defeated in battle, the ships with the survivors of the Taira Clan aboard fled west. When the ships were crossing the Seto Inland Sea to Shikoku, the wife threw herself into the sea, mourning her husband's death. The tale puts it, "So she followed him even to the wind- tossed waves of the Western Sea, and in death their path was not divided." Although their bodies were split away, their memorial tower is still standing peacefully here in #15...

母の葬儀に御世話になりました、 御導師に来られたのは副住職の方でしたが、心のこもった読経で送る事が出来、親族一同感謝してます、 又49日...

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