"Fuma no Sato" located in Hino

At times, the world of Sengoku and the world were greatly disturbed, and various parts of Japan were dominated by many warlords.
In particular, around the Kanto region, famous warlords such as Hojo in Odawara, Takeda in Kai, and Uesugi in Echigo appeared and repeated battles.
Among them, Kai's Takeda had a transparent wave, and Hojo of Odawara had a hiding group called wrecking, and a ninja corps, collecting information on enemy views and fighting fiercely.
At that time, the entire area of Musashi and Sagami countries, including Konan Ward, was under the control of Hojo Odawara, but there is a record called "Odawara Shosho territory book" which describes the arrangement of samurai who followed Odawara.
And the secret of this story is hidden in the record.
It was Soun Hojo who gave Odawara a noroshi as a Sengoku daimyo, who first served Imagawa of Suruga, but eventually became independent as the castle owner of Nirayama in Izu.
However, I don't know where I was born. At one point, he was calling himself Shinkuro Ise, but since the second generation of his child, he began to call Hojo from the age of Ujina, and came to be called Gohojo.
In the third son of Soun Hojo, there is a person named Gennan Hojo. And there is a record that Genan ruled Hino in Kuraki-gun, and furthermore, "As a result of the land inspection (to check the size of the land), gave his wife the extra amount." .
This Gennan Hojo lived a very long life, and is like "Hojo's shadow" who supported several generations of Hojo, below his brother's rope, and is a mysterious person called the shadow minister of Odawara Hojo.
He stated that Odawara Hojo's unique tactic was that information was collected, but before the war, a group of `` Shinobu '' called Fuma was dispatched to fully grasp the enemy's information, We performed destruction activities to disrupt the rear of the enemy.
He called the head of the group of "Shinobu" was called Kotaro Fuma. Furthermore, it is thought that it was Gennan Hojo that led the Fuma clan and others behind it.
A book states that the Jinya, which can be said to be the representative office of Gennan Hojo, was near Shimizu Bridge in Hino.
On the hill behind Shimizu Bridge, according to the "New Edition Musashi Fudoki", it is recorded as "9 cliff holes in this place, and two sides in four directions."
It is said that Genan's Daikan mansion was located at Hino 9-chome, but it is said that there was an Oribe mansion or an old Jinya in Shinnandai, behind Shimizu Bridge, which is also something related to Genan. Is considered.
And the hill land area, including Shinnandai, is shaped like a horseshoe facing south and has a small fort in the Middle Ages.
However, the current area is covered by the wave of development, and nothing remains.
So why did Odawara Hojo make this Hino a center of such information?
What can be considered is that Hino is the hinterland of Mr. Mamiya Sasashita.
During this period, a credible vassals were nearby and controlling the territory.
Hojo Odawara also treated his relatives as a credible clan by calling the Gokemonshu, and the first samurai who became vassal were called Izu-shu and incorporated them into the guard squad.
However, the samurai who had been indigenous to Sagami for a long time and later followed Odawara were reorganized into combat forces as unreliable vassals and sent to the front line.
For this reason, Mr. Mamiya Sasashita, who belongs to the Sagami Jushi 14 family, was originally monitored because he was an untrusted vassal.
In the past, in the days of the Warring States, if you think that the old road on the border between Musashi and Sagami was used in the shadow world as a "ninja path" for information transmission, Hino, carrying the "Buso Koku border road" behind. The area around Shimizu Bridge can be considered as one of the "Fuma no Sato".
By the way, there is a temple called Hohrin-ji Temple in Minami Ward, which also stands behind the old road at the border between Kuraki and Tachibana-gun.
This temple was opened by Michiho Hattorian, the castle owner of Nabari, Iga, and he is said to be from a ninja in Iga belonging to Hojo Odawara.

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