Fudō-in in Kamakura
(Fudō-in is fictional)
The temple I call Fudō-in, where Noboru Tokuda is a priest, is based on a famous temple of the Pure Land sect called Hasedera in Kamakura. This temple has a large cemetery catering to mizuko, dead children and aborted fetuses. It also houses the tall gilt wooden eleven-faced Guan Yin statue that Philip was so keen to visit.
Kannon Hall at Hasedera
view over Sagami Bay from Hasedera
Jizō as babies
Memorialized mizuko
Hall where Philip intoned the Heart Sutra
rows of Jizō commemorating mizuko
more Jizō at Hasedera
Hasedera Kannon
Jizō statues
Jizō in bib and cap