Enpuku-ji is an independent Shingon temple (Chizan lineage) in Babachō, Chōshi, Chiba, the twenty-seventh station of the Bandō 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, popularly known as Iinuma Kannon. Temple tradition holds that in 728 the fishermen Seiroku and Chōzō netted an Eleven-Headed Kannon image from the sea at the mouth of the Tone River, and a local magnate enshrined it at his residence. Kūkai is said to …

Temple tradition holds that in 728 the fishermen Seiroku and Chōzō netted an Eleven-Headed Kannon image from the sea at the mouth of the Tone River, and a local magnate enshrined it at his residence. Kūkai is said to have performed the eye-opening consecration during the Kōnin era (810-824), formall…