When Kobo Daishi came around this place,a maiden was working at the loom in a poor house.Taishi called at the house and asked her "Today is the term of my vow for seven days,because my clothes got dirty,I want cloth,"Then the daughter generously cut the cloth which shi was working at the loom until now by scissors and gave Taishi it.Taishi heard her say "I want Kannon by some means or others to pray to the Buddha for the repose of her father and mother's soul",he stayed at the house and carved the image of the Senju Kannon. And he got her to enter the Buddhist priesthood,built the temple and installed Kannon in it. It is said that before long the daughter attained Buddhahood when she was living and she became the incarnation of Kannon. The image of the "Hatakiri Kannon" which has scissors and cloth according to legend is built in the precincts. Taishi built the building of the temple,named it Tokudazan・Kirihataji temple,and decided tomake it the tenth Buddhist temple. The principal image-Senju Kannon is installed facing south and the image of the Kannon of Nyoninsokushinjobutsu (the deughter who attainrd Buddhahood) is installed facing north in the main temple.

It is comparatively the easy route of the pilgrimage as for as the ninth Buddhist temple,but this temple is on the high mountain and the very long steep stoping rises to the temple,it is appropriate to the stop of the tenth.After you go through the vermilion-lacquered main gate of the Buddhist temple,there are 300 steeps stone steps.If you reach the top of the stone steps,there is the main temple of a distinctive quality,Taishido on the right,the place to ofter a copy of a sutra in Hojo (the living space for the chief prirst) on the left side.If you go up the stone steps from the left of the main temple,there are Fudoto and at the inside Tahoto which is a peculitar shape and was dismantled from Sakai by the second shogunate of Hidetada Tokugawa.It is designated as prefectural cultural assets.