Even if you don't have rice cake Isaka

It's a long time ago.
There is a hill called "Mochi Isaka" at the border between the current door of Konan Ward and Bessho in Minami Ward.
It was called Ichirizuka, and a large pine was planted for a signpost. "Mochi Isaka" is a road created during the Kamakura period, and was famous for its particularly steep roads in Kamakura, covered with vegetation, dim even during the day, and the slopes were very steep. The travelers were prepared and climbed.
One day, a great monk named Jun Michikoshi, who had been traveling from Kyoto, came to this road. A villager said, "I'm sorry on a steep slope ..."
He began to climb before he had heard the word. I wanted to go around Kosugaya today.

Because it was Mochi Isaka, I was completely convinced that the teahouse on the hill must sell rice cakes.
After a long time, I told myself that I could eat my favorite rice cakes, and then shinbo and shinbo, and when I climbed the tight slope, I finally reached the top of the slope.
I saw a teahouse. "Oh, do it, you've got it."
Despite saying, the mochi began to flicker, the feet were light, and I spoke to the owner of the teahouse.　However, there was no rice cake that the monk was looking forward to.
I was really disappointed, and I wrote such a haiku record in a diary called "Mikuni Zaki", which summarizes the state of this trip.

View from the top of Mochi Isaka

Go out
I can't see it
Mochihizaka
Just a straw
Eat tomorrow

This means this.
(I finally reached Mochi Isaka and looked around, hoping that I could eat the rice cake, but there was no rice cake shop, just a straw that was in it was stuck in my feet.)
Even now, the area where the climb of Mochi Isaka is called "Amazakedai", but since long after this story, he seems to have sold amazake at a teahouse in Nangenka. But I don't know if they were selling rice cakes.

It is a story recorded in "Old Story of Hometown Konan 50 Episode".
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