Daihizan Kasamori-ji Temple (Kasamori Kannon)
Main Image Eleven-Headed Kannon (Principal Image) Category Bosatsu (Bodhisattva)
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DescriptionThe principal image of Kasamori-ji is the Eleven-Headed Kannon. Chiba Prefecture describes the present image as 2.6 meters tall and bearing an inscription dated 1426. Temple tradition traces its founding to 784, when Saicho is said to have carved an Eleven-Headed Kannon from a sacred camphor tree and enshrined it on the mountain. The principal image is normally kept hidden and is unveiled only from October 17 to November 18 in Years of the Ox and Horse. It is enshrined in the Kannon Hall, famed as Japan’s only four-sided kakezukuri structure, and remains the focus of worship at the 31st temple of the Bando 33 Kannon pilgrimage.
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