The sword mound of Yoshisada Nitta

Once upon a time, Konan Ward has several main roads to Kamakura, and there are many stories about the destruction of the Kamakura Shogunate.
The story of "Jingadai".
When you climb Sakuramichi and enter the Hino Park Cemetery, there is an embankment that looks like a thick tumulus in front. This area is called Jingadai. The book of the Edo period also states that once in the past, he had set up for war.
It seems that he built something like a small embankment to block the enemy's arrows.
Therefore, it is reported that there was a fierce battle between Nitta's army trying to head to Kamakura and the defender of Kamakura. .
After that, Kamakura was defeated by Nitta's army. It seems that a lot of villas from Kamakura who suffered scratches at that time escaped.
And it seems that Nitta's samurai who were at Jingadai had been killed almost. The corpses were scattered around here, so the villagers thought that they should not be left as they were, and buried and memorialized them regardless of their enemy.
At the entrance of the Hino Park Cemetery, such villas from the Kamakura period may still be sleeping.
For the souls of those who had accomplished a rugged end, thought that the hearts of swells would bring them to the village.
Once upon a time, the souls of those who died sadly thought that they wandered through the village without forming a Buddha, so all of them buried swords and armor dyed in blood and memorialized them.
Another story of "Tokenzuka".
In Shimonagaya, there is a trace of a temple called Jizo-in. It is a mound that when Yoshisada Nitta attacked Kamakura, buried people and swords who died in the war and memorialized them.
Many people have gone away because of the war. There was a mound where swords were buried with the deceased and memorialized, and it was called a sword mound.
Some fine sword mounds were built, but they were lost one day and only the legend remains.

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