Hase-dera (Kamakura)

Hase-dera
Kannon-dō (Main hall)
Religion
Affiliation	Jōdo-shū
Deity	Jūichimen Kannon (Eleven-Headed Kannon)
Location
Location	3-11-2 Hase, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture
Country	Japan
Architecture
Founder	Tokudō Shōnin
Completed	736
Website
http://www.hasedera.jp

Hase-dera (海光山慈照院長谷寺, Kaikō-zan Jishō-in Hase-dera), commonly called the Hase-kannon (長谷観音) is one of the Buddhist temples in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, famous for housing a massive wooden statue of Kannon.

The temple originally belonged to the Tendai sect of Buddhism, but eventually became an independent temple of the Jōdo-shū.^[1]