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Site 25 of the Mogami 33 Kannon Pilgrimage — Mukai-yama Kannon-ji in Obanazawa, a place linked to Matsuo Basho's "Narrow Road to the Deep North"
By car from Oishida Station on the JR Ou Line
Obanazawa City, Yamagata
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Mukai-yama Kannon-ji, in Obanazawa City, Yamagata, is Site 25 of the Mogami 33 Kannon Pilgrimage. The principal image is Sho-Kannon Bodhisattva. Obanazawa City is the place where Matsuo Basho wrote the haiku "Coolness — making my dwelling here, I rest at ease" during his journey for "Narrow Road to the Deep North," and this temple stands quietly within the historic landscape of Obanazawa, which fl…
The founding date of Mukai-yama Kannon-ji is unknown, but the temple has long functioned as a tutelary Kannon sanctuary of Obanazawa City. When the Mogami 33 Kannon Pilgrimage was established in the early Edo period, it was designated Site 25. During Matsuo Basho's 1689 "Narrow Road to the Deep Nort…
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Derived from the enshrined deity "聖観世音菩薩"
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