Hinohara village's ancient history footsteps
　　revealed by the place names.

１

Then after, imperial goverment ordered to prepare Yasaka Shrine.
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This was because not an ordinary soldier, but Prince Tamesada (為定王子) seems to be buried.
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it is the Crista where Prince Tamesada was buried in the Heian era
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When Prince Tamesada (為定王子) died and buried in Sengen (浅間) near Koiwa (小岩), all people of the village followed through to the mountainside with sadness and said goodby.　To the page

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The mountain which are seen in front of the place where the prince buried was named "Gozen yama" (御前山) (= the mountain before the Prince) .　The place called "Yukubo" became the entrance to the mountain, and a stone shrine was prepared there and named "Gozen-Suzu-Jinja".
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３

After the death of Ujishige Hirayama, villagers (of Senzoku area) built a shrine as Hinohara Village's imperial tomb with the strong worship toward Ujishige Hirayama.　The shrine exists even now.
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He is said to have been buried in the cemetery in Senzoku (千足) after his death.
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Next year (in 1591), when the war ended and peace came with Toyotomi's world, Kenmotsu visited Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya with Ujihisa (氏久).　It was for inviting the spiritual symbol from Atsuta Shrine to worship at Myoga-daira near Shiraya (白矢).
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Because Kenmotsu Yokochi taught about life and how to live to the pilgrims who came to the shrine, the shrine became popular to the countryside around the shrine as there were merits.
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Because of the Kenmotsu Yokochi's testament to hope to be buried at the place where Lake Ogochi can be seen to avoid annoying people of Hinohara, his tomb is located at the west of Ogochi Pass.
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The both rocks are called Kanoto-iwa (God entrance rocks). The upstream of Kanoto-iwa is called Akaizawa （赤井沢）, and Akaizawa Shrine is enshrined at the upstream of the river. 　There is a story that a samurai doctor named Daizen Akaizawa lived there to grow herbs.
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Zao Gongen (a god) was enshrined at the place through Kanoto-iwa by the Yamato military settlers who came to this land in Nara Era.　And the head of the Tachibana family who settled the land in the Nara Era, have a responsibility to the faith.
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This chief changed to Tachibana family at Yawari in Nakazato in Muromachi Era.　Even today, people of Yawari becomes chief of the shrine, and continues the festival.
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At one point, Mr. Sakamoto offered that he was told from the god enshrined near the south river over three days and nights, "Move in a high place because now place is noisy with the sound of the hooves of horses".　And the god was enshrined in a high place away from traffic.
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Mr. Sakamoto moved the enshrined "Eleven-Facies God" (十一面観音) to the top of Mt. Usuki (臼杵山) with hefty young men.

His subordinate was in the position of gatekeeper of the climbing road to the summit at Sasadaira (笹平).　The subordinate's family name was Sasaki.　The site where there was the old shirine is called "Miyanosawa" (= river with a shrine) even now.
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８

The next is because it is the place where Dainichi-nyorai-bosatsu (大日如来菩薩) was enshrined in praying for peace in around 1204 AD by the first lord of Hinohara castle, Hirayama Saumanokami Sueshige (平山左馬ノ守末重).　The place was important not only for the people of Hinohara village but for the people of neighbor villages.
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９

Third is becasue there is the mound of descendants of Gen. Shukubeno-Shosho-Takayasu (宿辺の少将高安) who came to live in Hinohara valley in the Nara era.
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