"Sekijo" in Noba and its surroundings

The mountain was broken, filled the valley, crushed the fields, making the residential land, and a town was created. The hill in Toichi-chome, Kamiooka is called O-Tsukayama, and there was a large mound.
This mountain, or "Hitomizuka", was also a place to see people passing through the Mochiiita on the "Kamakura Shimo Road" and the "Kanesawa Road" around Kamiooka Station.
It also served as a "Wolf Smooth" that connects Makita Castle and Seki Castle in Noba.
Noba now was written as a field. It is suitable for breeding horses in large grasslands, and the vast land seems to have been very good for training horses and samurai in the Kamakura and Gohojo eras.

Noba Chuo Park

It is said that Yoshimori Wada, one of the samurai residences of the Kamakura Shogunate, built a castle called Sekijo in the housing complex area of Noba.
The Honmaru (center of the castle) is said to have been located near the hill of Noba Chuo Park.
This Seki Castle is equipped with a "plateau setting", and the road to the Yoyo Tunnel is said to be after the sky moat.
And during the Battle of Wada in 1213 (1213), samurai on side of Yoshimori Wada arrived at this castle.

Yingyo Tunnel

Yoshimori, who was 66 years old at the time, died in Kamakura with his family, but even after that, the people who stayed in Seki Castle resisted the attacking Hojo army and withstanded for twenty days. There is a legend in Kami Noba that he had reached the end.
Nearby, "Rikiishi" at Jonen-ji Temple in Kami Noba is called "Tokimune Hojo's Rikishi".
I think that Takeshi Kamakura used the power stones at Sekijo to lift the barbell and increase the weight.
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 and returned to their original Noba.
Therefore, in order to prevent such problems from happening again, this "Tokimune Hojo's Rikishi" has been firmly preserved in the precincts of Jonen-ji Temple.

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