"Fuma no Sato" in Hino

At times, the world of Sengoku, the world was greatly disturbed, and various parts of Japan were ruled 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 the battle.
Among them, there was Tonami in Takeda of Kai, and Hojo of Odawara had a shadow group called turbulence, a ninja corps, each of which gathered information on enemy views and fought fiercely.
At that time, the whole area of Musashi and Sagami, including Konan Ward, was under the control of Hojo Odawara, but there is a record called "Odawara Shosho territory book" that describes the arrangement of samurai according to Odawara.
And in that record, the secret of this story is hidden.
It was Soun Hojo who gave Noroshi to Odawara as a Sengoku daimyo, and this person first served Imagawa of Suruga, but eventually became independent as the castle owner of Nirayama in Izu.
However, I don't know what I'm from. At one point, he was calling himself Shinkuro Ise, but he came to claim Hojo from the age of the second generation of his child, 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 Kuragi-gun, and "As a result of the inspection (examined the size of the land), gave the surplus to his wife." .
This Gennan Hojo has lived very long and is a mysterious person who was like "Hojo's shadow" who supported several generations of Hojo head, below his brother's rope, and was called the minister behind Odawara Hojo.
He stated that Odawara Hojo's unique tactic was to collect information, but before fighting the war, he dispatched a group of "shinobi" called Fuma to fully grasp the enemy's information and perform destructive activities to disrupt the back of the enemy.
The head of the group of "Shinobi" was Kotaro Fuma. In addition, it is thought that the Gennan Hojo led the Fuma clan behind the scenes.
One book states that the Jinya, which can be said to be the government office of Gennan Hojo, was near Shimizu Bridge in Hino.
On the hill behind Shimizu Bridge, according to the "New Edition Musashi Fudoki", "There are nine cliff holes in this place, two squares in size."
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 related to Genan It is thought that there is.
And the hill land area, including Jinnandai, is shaped like a hoof of a horse facing south, and has a small fort in the Middle Ages.
However, the current area has been exposed to the wave of development, and nothing remains.
So why did Hojo Odawara make this Hino the center of such information?
What can be considered is that Hino is the hinterland of Mr. Mamiya Sasashita.
Even in this era, he had a credible vassal nearby and controlled the territory.
Hojo Odawara also treated his relatives as a trusted clan by calling his relatives the family members, and called the samurai who first became vassals the Izu people and incorporated them into the guards.
However, the samurai who had been indigenous to Sagami for a long time and followed Odawara later were reorganized into battle units as unreliable vassals and sent to the front line.
For this reason, Mr. Sasashita Mamiya, who belongs to the 14 Sagami Shuzo family, was originally an untrusted vassal, and seems to have been monitored.
In the past, considering that during the Warring States period, the old road on the grassy border between Musashi and Sagami was used as a "ninja path" for information transmission in the shadow world, Hino and 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 is also built on the back of the old road between Kuraki-gun and Tachibana-gun.
The temple was opened by the owner of Iga Kuni Nabari, Doho Hattori, who is said to be from Iga Ninja, who belongs to Hojo Odawara.

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