A Jizo hall in Kemigawa, Hanamigawa-ku, Chiba, rooted in the Kemigawa area as a place of popular faith with Jizo Bosatsu as principal deity. Jizo Bosatsu is the compassionate bodhisattva who saves all beings in the six realms of existence from every suffering, the most beloved Buddhist deity known as "O-Jizo-sama." It is a local place of faith where the farming and fishing people of Kemigawa have …

Kemigawa Jizo-do is said to have been founded around 1600, during the Keicho era. The Kemigawa district, which developed along the Hanamigawa River as a farming and fishing community, has long maintained a tradition of popular faith centered on Jizo Bosatsu. Throughout the Edo period (17th–19th cent…