Tatara no Fire and Yamato Takeru

Have you ever heard of the story of the Busou border? The border between Musashi and Sagami countries passed through the middle of Konan Ward.
It's surprising that Konan Ward was the only border in the ward among all Yokohama wards.
And it is said that this border road is also the road that the Tatarashi (the person who makes iron). On this road, there are so many places with gold letters, houses with the name of blacksmiths, and houses where their ancestors are metal masters.
Let's think about the reason why we'll go back in time.
Once upon a time, the royal family in the country of Yamato, in the west, sought to conquer the eastern country, and one of them, Yamato Takeru, attracted a large number of soldiers and moved eastward east.
In order to reign the path of this army, we have brought people who make weapons and prepare food, in addition to the soldiers.
Just around the present Konan, when Yamato Takeru was approaching, the weather suddenly worsened, black clouds and lightning, and thunderstorms sounded, and a number of lightnings fell.
Yamato Takeru found the stratum around here.
What I learned is that Konan Ward, especially near the current Konan Ward government office, thunder is so easy to fall as the place name "thunder." There is a thick layer of iron sand in such a place, and it is said that iron sand sank to the bottom of the river in Hinokawa. And there were people who used this iron sand to work.
Yamato Takeru also played a role in conveying the iron culture.
Beyond the border of the country, there are places with gold-filled place names in Kanai, Otara, Kajigaya on the Sakae Ward side, Kanai on Totsuka Ward, Kamariya in Kanazawa Ward, and Kanekusozawa.
It is said that Yamato Takeru's corps went to the Miura Peninsula, boarded a boat, and crossed to Kanaya in Boso, but the old people in Konan thought that they had passed through Hino and passed Miura.
There are many horizontal cave tombs on the border of the Takesou border, and the fact that human bones and rusted swords are dug out can be said to support this. There is also a shrine that surrounds Yamato Takeru. From the downstream of Hinokawa to the vicinity of Mt. Enkai, "Tatara no Fire" was burning here and there, and I feel the romance of history.

This is a story recorded in "Hometown Konan's Old Story".
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