Kogane Jizo at Fumonin Temple

The Kogane Jizo (黄金地蔵尊) is a memorial Jizo Bosatsu statue housed at Fumonin Temple (普門院) in the Nishinaka-cho neighborhood of Minami Ward, Yokohama. It was originally erected near Keikyu Koganecho Station, one of the sites where the greatest number of civilian casualties occurred during the May 29, 1945 air raid.

Koganecho Station and its surrounding neighborhood experienced some of the most intense devastation during the Great Yokohama Air Raid. Passengers evacuating from trains halted at the station when the alert sounded were caught there together with local residents, and the charred bodies lay piled on one another; one account puts the dead around the station at more than 600. Fumonin itself was showered with incendiaries — an anti-aircraft battery stood nearby — and some of those who ran to the temple for help died on the steps below its precinct. Many bodies were brought to the front of Koganecho Station.

After the war, local volunteers erected the Jizo statue in front of the station to console the spirits of the dead. Distinctively, it wears a wartime air-raid hood (防空頭巾) — the cloth head covering that Japanese civilians wore for protection during bombing raids — making it a powerful symbol of the civilian experience during the strategic bombing campaign.

When the station-front area was developed, around 1952–53, the statue was relocated to Fumonin Temple. An additional war-victims Jizo statue was installed at the Koganecho parking area after the redevelopment, reportedly in response to local stories of accidents attributed to the unquiet spirits of the air raid dead. Annual memorial services are held on May 29.