I would like to talk about Kitain Temple’s that I researched. Why do you choose Kitain Temple’s? because I’ve only gone to here that a sightseeing in Kawagoe. In here, a temple  with a long and distinguished history. I like to make a pilgrimage to a number of well-known temples. I think my hometown of temples is better than here. So this time research, I deeply want to know. Therefore, I have three question. About “How long history?”, “What is the famous in Kitain Temple’s”, “What was  Kitain Temple’s motive to build”

The history of Kitain is thought to have begun when the monk Ennin founded Muryoju Temple in 830 A.D. Burned down during fighting in 1205, the temple was rebuilt in 1296 by the monk Sonkai. Emperor Gofushimi made it head of the Tendai Sect temples in east Japan in 1300.

Kitain became the main temple of the three-temple complex after Tenkai became the head monk in 1599 (a carving of him is housed on the knoll next to the main Kitain building).and his friendship with the first Tokugawa shogun, Ieyasu, Kitain flourished. The ChinePreviously Nakain Temple had been the most influential. Under Tenkai's influence se characters used to write Kitain were changed from those meaning North Temple, which has a dark image, to those meaning Temple of Much Happiness. Kitain is today the head Tendai Sect temple of the kanto area. Nakain is now a separate temple, and all that remains of Minamiin is small graveyard.

There are actually 540 of these statues representing the disciples of Buddha. They were carved between 1782 and 1825 with no two statues alike. It is said that if you feel among the statues in the dead of night you will find one that is warm. Mark it, come back during the day, and you will see it is the statue most resembling yourself.