KatsuÅ-ji
The Katsuo -ji (Japanese胜 尾 寺) is a Buddhist temple in the city of Mino in the prefecture of Osaka in Japan. The temple is associated with the faith Shingon shū. Main image of the temple is a statue of the eleven- thousand-armed Kannon and. The Katsuo -ji Temple is the 23rd of Saigoku - pilgrimage (西 国 三十 三 箇 所, Saigoku sanjūsankasho ).
Overview
According to the temple legend of the Katsuo -ji goes back to a country cottage, in the year 727 of the brothers Zenchū (善 仲) and Zensan (善 算) was built. Since 765 is Prince Kaijo (开 成), have also lived a son of Emperor Konins on the premises. On 13 July 775 the Miroku -ji Temple was built as the first official temple building. 780 is the monk Myokan have carved within one month together with 18 children, the main image of the temple. Through grants from the imperial house of the temple flourished during the Heian period.
However, large parts of the temple grounds were destroyed in the Battle of Ichi -no- Tani in the Genpei War. Already in 1188 began to rebuild. Extensive restoration works have already been initiated in the Azuchi - Momoyama period by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He also donated a statue of Kannon, who is venerated as a result together with the main statue.
The expansion of the temple grounds of about 200 acres was proved by finds from the 13th century during excavations in 1963. After limited buried statues of guardian kings and myōō the temple grounds in the four cardinal directions and the four cardinal points.
The name of the temple is with Emperor Seiwa in conjunction. This should be recovered thanks to the zealous prayers of a Tempelabts of a disease. In gratitude he had the temple the characters katsu " win, win " for and ō for "King " award, which were "wins against a king" interpreted as. The monks later replaced the character for king by today's spelling.
The tradition of auspicious temple visit is still alive today: On the temple grounds include a variety of small Daruma charms.