Amabiki-san Rakuho-ji in Motoki, Sakuragawa, commonly known as Amabiki Kannon, is a distinguished Shingon Buzan temple and the twenty-fourth temple of the Bando thirty-three Kannon pilgrimage. The principal Enmei Kanzeon Bosatsu is renowned for blessings of safe childbirth and child-rearing, drawing many expectant and new mothers. Its founding is said to date to the second year of Emperor Yomei (5…

Amabiki-san Rakuho-ji is said to have been founded in 587 CE, the second year of Emperor Yomei's reign, by the immigrant monk Horindo Dokushu, who came from the Liang dynasty on the continent. The principal image, Enmei Kanzeon Bosatsu, has long been venerated for blessings of safe childbirth and ch…