The sword mound of Yoshisada Nitta

Once upon a time, Konan Ward has several main roads leading to Kamakura, and many stories from the time when the Kamakura Shogunate was destroyed.
The story of "Jingadai".
When you climb Sakuramichi and enter the Hino Park Cemetery, you will find an embankment that looks like a thick tumulus in front. This area is called Jingadai. Books from the Edo period also states that once they had set up for battle here.
Surely, it seems that he built something like a small pile of earth to catch the enemy's arrow.
Therefore, it is reported that there was a fierce battle between Nitta's army trying to go to Kamakura and the side guarding Kamakura.
After that, Kamakura was defeated by Nitta's army. At that time, Kamakura's murai, who had a scratch, escaped a lot.
And it seems that the sad people of Nitta in Jingadai were almost killed. The corpses were scattered around here, so the villagers thought that they should not be the case, and buried them without regard to enemy or ally.
At the entrance of the Hino Park Cemetery, such murai from the Kamakura period may still be sleeping.
I thought that the souls of those who had achieved the frustrated end would have thought that the souls of those who had achieved the frustrated end would bring to the village.
The old people thought that the soul of a sad death would wander through the village without buddha, so the swords and armor that were stained with blood were buried and memorialized together.
Another story of "Toukenzuka".
In Shimonagaya, there is a trace of a temple called Jizo-in Temple. When Yoshisada Nitta attacked Kamakura, it is a mound that buried and memorialized the people who died in the war and swords.
Many people have gone away because of the war. There was a mound where swords were buried and memorialized along with the deceased, and it was called a sword mound.
Some fine sword mounds were built, but one day they were lost, and only legends remain.

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