Shinko-ji — Local services in Kobe

Fukuhara 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #33 Shinko-ji Temple I walked out of #1 Yakusen-ji Temple, and crossed Hyogo Canal. The bridge over the canal was named Kiyomori Bridge, after Taira Kiyomori (1118-1181). I kept walking to find the #33 Shinko-ji Temple on my left. It is sometimes the case the #1 and #33 of a Kannon pilgrimage sit almost side by side to form a kind of a loop with the 33 temples. I was going to visit some of the Fukuhara 33 Kannon Pilgrimage in reverse order. Shinko-ji Temple had a well whose water Taira Kiyomori, who built the Fukuhara Capital in the area, made tea with. I was surprised to learn that they also have something of Kiyomori. Not minding it deeply, I walked straight to the main building, which had the main deity, which was not a Kannon statue. It’s sometimes the case that a Kannon statue is not a main deity of a Kannon-pilgrimage temple, and I walked half way back to the temple gate, wondering where the Kannon statue was in the temple. I bumped into the Kiyomori well again, on my right I found a stone monument inscribed with a Kannon tanka poem. Almost all the 33 temples of any 33 Kannon pilgrimage have their own Kannon tanka poem. I looked around and over the well I found a Kannon building. After Shinko-ji Temple, I visited some other temples of Fukuhara 33 Kannon Pilgrimage. I had been wondering why the pilgrimage had taken the name of Fukuhara, but not Hyogo nor Wada. Some temples of the Fukuhara 33 Kannon Pilgrimage had preserved something legendary related to Kiyomori. By noon, I thought I realized why they used the name Fukuhara. The people there might have loved Kiyomori, who had built Fukuhara Capital in the area at the end of...

えびすさま招福の道「西国街道...

浄土宗や浄土真宗、臨済宗などとともに大きく仏教が変わっていく鎌倉時代の主役のひとり、「踊り念仏」の一遍上人に所縁の深い寺。

踊り念仏って何っ？て興味を惹く。この地で一遍上人は亡くなり、関西では数少ない時宗の寺として個性のあるお寺。 鎌倉仏教は地味で覚えにくい日本史のテーマだけど、こーいうお寺を回れると印象も残りやすい。遠方からわざわざ来るほどでは無いけど、近くに来たら他の大輪田泊の史跡と一...