A fool

Tokuonji Temple

The area around Kasuga Shrine and Hinochuuo, where Tokuonji Temple is located along the Kamakura Highway, was once called Miyashita Village. The road in front of the shrine was called the "Mine no Michi", and Kannondo stood quietly at the intersection of the road from Sasashita.
The road leading from there to Amida-ji Temple at the peak is called the "moxibustion point road". There was a sad event that Kannondo's guardian was killed by a robbery in the Edo period. It was said that there was a "tatari" when Kannondo was bad, so neither adults nor children approached very much.
There were few people living here, there were wetlands and small swamps, and reeds that could be backed by people. On top of that, when a ghost called "Sawage-ba" appeared occasionally, he took the villagers to the world. It was said that those who saw the Sawage grandmother would always die, and everyone believed and feared that the grandfather of Miyashita Village died three days and three nights because he saw the Sawage grandmother.
－Sagged--the appearance of the white hair, which was disturbed by a white kimono, and the face, may have been similar to someone who is old, rather than fear. I can't imagine who he was, even though he was irreversible. I'm worried about it, and I'm sorry.
I can remember in a little more, but he wouldn't be alive anymore. Do you mean that you're welcome from the world? Perhaps he left the pick-up from the world as a "Sagage-ba" that touched his heart, or perhaps this road was connected to a world different from this world.
Or, Tokuonji is the 69th place of the 88th place of the sacred place in the east of Shin-Shikoku, from which to the peak Amida-ji Temple, a pilgrimage of white costumes chanting the grassy mountain path `` Sange, Sange '' It seems that he went through. After the pilgrimage, my parents told me that I would not go far away, "Don't keep up with the old lady!" However, it may have suddenly become, "If you look at the old woman, you will die."
It is said that "Zange, Zange" became "Sagage", and the slope between Konan Ward and Isogo Ward now became "Sagagezaka" and the narrow valley became "Sagage Valley" (Sawagaya).

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