Kobuchizan Shokenji Kannon-in Temple
Main Image Hidden Principal Image: Sho Kannon Bosatsu (Wooden Standing Bosatsu) Category Bosatsu (Bodhisattva)
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DescriptionKobuchizan Kannon-in's principal image, Sho Kannon Bodhisattva, is a hidden wooden standing bodhisattva unveiled only once every 60 years in a Hinoe-uma (Fire Horse) year. The temple regards it as a wooden image possibly dating to the Asuka period. It stands with a high coiffure, the left arm bent and the right arm gently lowered, and is identified as an image of Kannon. According to the temple tradition recorded in Kobuchizan Honzonki, the image appeared among reeds on the bank of the Tone River during a flood in 1258 and later attracted widespread devotion through accounts of miraculous efficacy. In 2026, a Hinoe-uma year, the image will receive a special unveiling from September 19 through October 4. It is the temple's emblematic principal image, and this unveiling offers an exceptionally rare opportunity to see it.
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