"Midorihime" in Motoyashiki

Around 1944, when the Pacific War was intense, in a large-scale house, due to food shortages, the garden was turned into a field, plowed, and dug air raid shelters for evacuation.
I was digging a hole in Motoyashiki in Okubo. However, there was a sound of a katsun and a stone at the end of the crouch, and when I dug out the stone, a lot of fist-sized stones written by the sutras came out one after another.
And a bone pot came out under the dug stone. Nearby there was a stone monument that seemed to have been buried in the masses.
A monk who was going to calm the spirit from Kamakura was called.
And he set up a monument on the land where he was currently enshrined, and buried it carefully.
According to the story of a 90-year-old grandmother who stood at that time ...
About 600 years ago, when Northern and Southern Courts period was the center of politics in Kyoto, a princess of a family who had a strong influence, called "Midorihime," fell in love with a young man.

But before the young man was told his feelings, the young man left for the eastern mandate.
Midorihime said that the young man was unforgettable, and finally went on a journey following the young man.
Once upon a time, Musashi's country was a time when it was thought like the end of the north.
I think the princess has often reached this Okubo.
However, when he arrived at this village, close to the country where young people lived, he was already sick and couldn't walk a step.
The villagers heard the story of the princess and took care of them, but they seemed to have stopped at last.
He said that he had squeezed a plate monument so that he could form a Buddha without hesitation, piled stones with sutras on the tomb, and buried them around.
However, when the monument was dug out, it is interesting that the monk was re-engraved from the southern dynasty in 1336 as the fourth year of the court sentence of the North. I wonder if he was the boy of the North Dynasty at that time.

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