Located in Kisakata, Nikaho City, this venerable Tendai Buddhist temple is celebrated alongside Kisakata in Matsuo Basho's travel journal 'Oku no Hosomichi' (The Narrow Road to the Deep North). According to tradition, Kanmanji was founded around 807 by Sakanoue no Tamuramaro. It once stood amid the fantastical scenery of countless small islands dotting the Kisakata shore. In 1689 (Genroku 2), Mats…

807年頃に坂上田村麻呂が創建と伝わる天台宗古刹。元禄2年（1689年）に松尾芭蕉が訪問し「象潟や」の句を詠んだことで全国的に有名となった。1804年の象潟地震で地形が大変動し現在の「陸の象潟」となった。