| The Emperor Shomu (701-756) made a petition
of the building of the Kokubunji (province
temple) and Kokubuniji (province nunnery)
in all the provinces of the country in the
13th year of Tempyo (741). It is said that
this temple was the Kokubunji in the Settsu
province. At first the temple had a vast
precinct and there were 7 cathedrals, a Buddha's
bones tower and the others, but later it
was on the decline for a long time. And it
was reconstructed at the site of the Kunijima
Filtration Plant in the 13th year of Ouei
(1406) as a Zen sect temple. But it was removed
here after that with its base stones of that
time because of the extension of the Kunijima
Filtration Plant. |
