Let's travel around the Kamakura period in Minami Ward

Saturday, November 5 9:30 am to 1:00 pm (planned)

Municipal Subway Blue Line Maita Station (meeting) ⇒ Muryoji ⇒ Wakamiya Hachimangu ⇒ Ooka District Center (break)
⇒ Monument of Kamakura Kaido ⇒ Komeiji Shopping Street ⇒ Komyoji ⇒ Jorenji ⇒ Keikyu Main Line Idogaya Station (scheduled to be dissolved)

Those who can walk about 5 to 6 km (elementary school students and above: elementary school students must be accompanied by parents)

30 people (lottery) ※A guide will guide you to a group of about 5 to 7 people.

Friday, October 21, 2022 (must arrive)

Yokohama Minami Guide Volunteer Association

◆Electronic application
　 https://shinsei.city.yokohama.lg.jp/cu/141003/ea/residents/procedures/apply/0bda94a8-ff11-4461-8a42-3cdcb40023af/start (external site)
◆Fill out the postcard or fax with 1-4 and go to the application address.
①Name: Address, 3 Phone number, 4's
　※Personal information will be used only for the implementation and operation of this project.
　

・The lottery results will be announced by mail by October 31, 2022 (Monday).
・Light rain (cancelled in stormy weather) ※In case of cancellation, we will post the cancellation on the Minami Ward Web page around 16:00 the day before.

This is a column that introduces the highlights of the neighborhood along with a simple map. Why don't you use it as a reference for walking in the city?　

In creating the article, we will tell you stories taught by temples and shrines related to the Kamakura period, and spill stories such as impressions when the ward office visited the site.

※A fee of 500 yen will be charged when visiting the main hall or the main hall.
※You will not be able to see it during the memorial service.

When you step on the floorboard inside the main hall, you can clearly feel the unevenness of the floor on the soles. This is because in an era when "canna" for cutting boards is not common, it is an old material that was flattened using a tool called "chona". I feel the history!

Inside the main hall, the tiles (den: Nara period) used for Kannondo used in the past are preserved. Because there is a trace of the cloth, it is called a cloth tiles, and it seems that it was used only for limited buildings such as administrative agencies and temples. It is said that the tiles were burned to Nagata-cho, Minami-ku today.

The eleven-faced Kanzeon Bodhisattva statue of the main statue is a Buddha statue carved out of a single piece of wood and is an important cultural property designated by the country. It is carved with a technique of intentionally leaving the flea traces called nata carving, and is famous as a typical example of carving left in the Kanto region. It is also characterized by the fact that the right hand is marked with the eradication of the plague because it was produced in the hope of eradication of the plague.

Bando 33 Kannon has 33 temples in the Kanto region in a concentric circle centered on Kamakura, and Komyoji is the 14th place.
Bando 33 Kannon seems to have Yoritomo Minamoto, who worshiped Kannon, chose Kannon Sacred Ground in Bando (the area east of Hakone and Usui Pass) following the 33 Kannon tour in western Japan. .

The road that intersects on the way from Komyoji to Yokohama Komeiji Shopping Street was the former Kanazawa Road. Kanazawa Road is an old road that breaks up from Hodogaya-juku on the Tokaido and leads to Kanazawa Hakkei, Uraga and Kamakura. Now, the narrow road used to be the main road!

※Visitors are free to visit the temple grounds.

Let's head to Ooka Health Plaza from Komyoji Subway Station. Proceed while looking at Ooka Health Plaza to your left, turn left at the corner of the next square (Ooka Harappa), and go straight ahead, a torii gate suddenly appears in a residential area. Let's go through the torii gate and go on. The stairs in front of you continue to the precincts.

When the ward office visited the interview, the precincts were cleaned clean without any fallen leaves. It seems that the local people are cleaning every day. You can feel that it is valued in the community.

It is said that the shrines of the shrine are often built south or eastward, but Wakamiya Hachimangu Shrine is said to be located in front of Kamakura (southwest). You can feel the history that it was built to protect Kamakura.

※Visitors are free to visit the temple grounds.
The statue of Masako Hojo is not open to the public, but if you would like to visit, you can call the temple in advance and guide you.

There is a well on the grounds that Masako is said to have used it for makeup. There are legends that high quality water has come out and have never died in any sunshine.
There is also a fine kaya tree with a diameter of more than 1.2m. This kaya tree is designated as a famous tree Furuki in Yokohama City, and is also handed down by Masako.

In the main hall, the statue of Masako Hojo is enshrined. Masako pledged to be a guardian Buddha for women and children, and told me that there was a story that she copied herself on a mirror and carved herself. In addition, they also showed a plate painting (1938), in which Masako carved a Buddha statue by hand carving.

You will see items donated by local people, such as photographs of old temples that retain the former thatched main hall, stone monuments erected in the Meiji era, and statues of Fudo Myo, which were worshiped at home. Was. I felt that the locals were relied on the temple, and that the temple had been carefully handed down the items.