1. Boiel's, article ~Canonizing Kannon: The Ninth­ Century Esoteric Buddhist Altar at Kanshinji

2. In their liturgy, they used Maria Kannon, which was Mary disguised as a Buddhist bodhisattva in the form of a mother holding a child.

3. The chief of their village, Hajino Nakamoto, recognized the sanctity of the statue and enshrined it by remodeling his own house into a small temple in Asakusa so that the villagers could worship Kannon.