Seki Castle in Noba and surrounding areas

We broke the mountain and buried the valley, crushed the fields to make it a residential land, and a town was created. The hill at Toichi-chome in Kamiooka is called Otsukayama, and it seems that there was a large mound.
This mountain was also called "Hitomizuka" and was also a place to see people passing through the "Kamakura-shita Road" rice cake plate and the "Kanesawa Road" near Kamiooka Station.
It also served as a "Wolmodai" connecting Makita Castle and Seki Castle in Noba.
Now Noba was once written as a field. It is suitable for breeding horses on wide grasslands, and the vast land seems to have been very good for training horses and samurai during the Kamakura and post-Hojo eras.

Noba Chuo Park

It is said that Yoshimori Wada, a separate servant of the Kamakura Shogunate, once built a castle called Sekijo in the housing complex area of Noba.
It is said that the Honmaru (the center of the castle) was located near a hill in Noba Chuo Park.
This Seki Castle is equipped with a " plateau setting", and the road to the Yingyo Tunnel is said to be after the sky moat.
And during the Battle of Wada in 1213 (1213), samurai on the side of Yoshimori Wada came to this castle.

Yingyo Tunnel

Yoshimori, who was 66 at the time, was killed in Kamakura with his family, but even after that, the people who stayed at Sekijo resisted the attacking Hojo army, held for twenty days, and had a fierce end in Kami Noba.
Nearby, the power stone at Jonenji Temple in Kami Noba is called the power stone of Tokimune Hojo.
Like lifting the barbell and raising the weight, I think that Takeshi Kamakura used power stones at Seki Castle to help them.
Once upon a time, a young man in Hino had taken away this power stone. It is said that the young people of Noba, who knew this, went to negotiations with him and returned to the original Noba.
Therefore, in order to prevent such problems from happening again, this "Tokimune Hojo's Power Stone" has been firmly preserved in the precincts of Jonenji Temple.

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