The lord of Takuma who lived in Nagatani

The Kamakura Shogunate was relieved, and the Muromachi Shogunate was newly established in Kyoto, but in Kamakura there was a government office called Kamakura Prefecture, which governs the ten eastern countries.
And the chief executive there was Kimikata Kamakura, and a person who was in the lineage of Mr. Ashikaga, the general, came to that position for generations.
However, in fact, Mr. Uesugi, the heavy minister of Kamakura Kokata, had the real power to control the eastern country in the position of Kanto territory.
As the Muromachi period progressed, Uesugi was also divided into four houses and struggled for power with each other.
The four are Uesugi, who are different from Yamauchi, Inukake, Oogiya, and Takuma, taking the names of their grounds in Kamakura, respectively.
Among them, Mr. Takuma Uesugi seems to have been based in Nagatani since some time, and in a book written at the end of the Edo period, Uesugi Norikuni, a descendant of Mr. Takuma, It is written that a castle was built in the land of Nagatani. .
I don't know exactly where the castle built by Takuma Uesugi was.
However, the place name Iyodenne remains around Nagano Elementary School Squeezing means that the place where the mansion of the lord of Iyo was located because the person named Kenkata of the Norikuni child was called Iyo. It is said that it is not.
In addition, around the temples called Nagatani Tenman-gu Shrine and Sadashoin, there are traces of moats, and on the small hills behind them, there were lands that seemed to have been artificially shaved and flattened peculiar to the castle ruins. .
Therefore, it is thought that this area is a castle ruin built by a warlord related to Mr. Takuma Uesugi.
Later, during the Warring States period, Takuma Kamibayashi began to serve Hojo Odawara, but since it was originally a high-class family, Gohojo was different from ordinary vassals, and was named Takumaden. I was calling it.
After Hojo Odawara fell, Noritomi Takuma Uesugi set out in the battle of Sekigahara as the flagship of Ieyasu Tokugawa, and then moved to Hodogaya.
At present, the area around the peaceful Kaminagaya may have once been a noisy village where warriors hang out and loud voices echo.

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