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Site 28 of the Shin-Saigoku 33 Pilgrimage — Komyo-ji in Kasai City, an ancient Harima temple traditionally said to have been founded by Prince Shotoku
15 min by car from Kasai IC on the Chugoku Expressway, or taxi from Hojomachi Station on the JR Kakogawa Line
Sakamoto-cho, Kasai, Hyogo
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Komyo-ji, in Sakamoto-cho, Kasai City, Hyogo, is a Koyasan Shingon temple and Site 28 of the Shin-Saigoku 33 Pilgrimage. The principal image is the Eleven-Headed Kannon Bodhisattva. According to temple tradition, it was founded in 594 by Prince Shotoku — an ancient temple representing one of the early Kannon sanctuaries of the Harima region in the Tendai/Shingon traditions. In the medieval period …
Tradition holds that Komyo-ji was founded in 594 when Prince Shotoku established a Kannon sanctuary at this site. As one of the ancient temples symbolizing the early transmission of Buddhism to the Harima region, the temple developed through the Nara period as a Tendai-affiliated Kannon sanctuary. I…
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Derived from the enshrined deity "十一面観世音菩薩"
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