Kanzeon at Mount Otowa

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Kanzeon at Mount Otowa (音羽山 観世音), as mentioned in Anecdotes of Oyasama 95, refers to Otowa Kannon-ji (音羽山 観音寺), a temple in present-day Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture.

According to its website, Otowa Kannon-ji is a prayer temple founded in circa 806 CE where Kanzeon, the thousand-armed, thousand-eyed, and eleven-headed sculpture of Kannon, is said to provide miraculous benefits for eye ailments.

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