Shinpuku-ji Temple
真福寺
Historic Soto Zen temple, home to a rare Kannon statue that survived a major fire.
What it is
- A Soto Zen Buddhist temple, Odana-san Shinpuku-ji.
- Second temple of the Chichibu Kannon Pilgrimage.
- Designated as a historic site of Chichibu City.
What to see
- A Kannon-do hall, rebuilt in 1908.
- Kannon-do has an irimoya-zukuri copper-tiled roof.
- Kannon-do has a sanma-shimen structure.
- A standing Sho Kannon statue, carved from a single wood block.
- The statue dates from the Muromachi period.
- The statue survived a fire in 1860.
Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.
Where it is
埼玉県秩父市山田3095番地 Open in Google Maps
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