Kasadera Kannon (笠覆寺) 笠覆寺
The open-air market comes back on every day with a six in it: the 6th, the 16th and the 26th.
Kasadera Kannon, in full Ryūfuku-ji, is a temple of the esoteric Shingon school in Minami Ward. Tradition has it founded in 733: a monk named Zenkō carved an eleven-faced Kannon from a log washed ashore on Yobitsugi beach and built a chapel for it six hundred and fifty metres further south. The temple moved here when the Fujiwara couple rebuilt it, and in 1238 the monk Agan rebuilt it a second time: the bell cast then is still in the bell tower and is a cultural property of Aichi Prefecture. Today's buildings (main hall, two-storey pagoda, guardian gate and bell tower) date from between 1645 and 1820, and in 2017 the municipality designated them as a group. It is one of the four Kannon of Owari, the temples that stand on the four sides of Nagoya Castle: each year one of them is the temple of the lucky direction, and in 2026 it is Kasadera's turn.
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Kasadera, Sakura-hommachi, Aratama-bashi, Moto-Kasadera
