柿其渓谷と木曽駒No.2

<2/2> 木曽駒Kisokoma area

２００４年８月１３日と１４日、晴天の下、木曽駒方面へ行ってきました。
（１４日夜と１５日朝は雨）。

長野県木曽郡南木曽町の柿其渓谷と長野県木曽郡日義村の｢義仲館｣等へ行きました。
木曽義仲と巴の遊び場所「巴が淵」へは今回訪れませんでした。

柿其渓谷～フォレストスパ木曽～野尻方面（国道19号）の途中にある阿寺川も非常に
美しい。　川床の石が白いので、光がこの石や水に反射し、エメラルドグリーンできれい。
阿寺川沿いには多くのマイカーが駐車。　川原で家族連れや子供が水遊びをしていました。

≪柿其渓谷≫　前ページ参照
（瀬戸市の自宅から国道２４８号～県道６６号～国道１９号を通り、車で約２時間３０分）

≪長野県木曽郡日義村≫
（柿其渓谷～野尻を経由して国道１９号を北へ車で約１時間）
日義村は悲劇の英雄｢朝日将軍木曽義仲｣と美しい女武将｢巴御前｣の故郷である。

ここは平安時代の武将、源義仲（木曽義仲）が幼少の頃を過ごした場所です。
義仲と巴は幼少は遊び友達として。思春期を迎えると、ごく当たり前のように恋仲になりました。
そして側室としてずっとそばにいるのでした。義仲があえて正妻にはせず側室として迎えたのです。
義仲と共に戦場を駆けめぐった女武者として有名。

【引用：｢日本史浪漫｣の｢木曽義仲・巴御前墓所　徳音寺｣】

≪木曽義仲の生涯≫

木曽義仲公は、久寿元年（１１５４）源義賢（よしかた）の二男として、武蔵の国大蔵館で生まれ、
幼名を駒王丸と呼ばれた。
久寿２年父義賢が、その兄義朝の長子である義平に攻め滅ぼされたのは２歳の時だった。
駒王丸は、畠山重能と斎藤実盛の温情により信濃の国、木曽に逃れ中原兼遠の養育を受けた。
仁安元年（１１６６）元服後木曽次郎源義仲と名乗り、治承４年（１１８０）後白河法皇第二皇子
以仁王(もちひと)の平家追討の令旨（りょうじ）を奉じ旗揚げをし、寿永２年（１１８３）北陸に進撃した。
義仲は、倶梨伽羅峠で牛の角に松明を付けて平家の大軍を追い込み壊滅させたことは、特に有名
である。
この後入京した義仲は、征夷大将軍に任じられたが、元暦元年（１１８４）後白河法皇の策略により
鎌倉軍に敗れ、粟津ケ原で討死した。
３１歳の短い生涯であった。

【引用｢義仲館｣のインターネット情報】

I visited to Kisokoma-area (Kiso area, Nagano Prefecture) on sunny days of Aug. 13
and 14, 2004.

Main spots in this visit are "Kakisore Ravine" (Nagiso-cho, Kiso-gun, Nagano Pref.)
and "Yoshinaka-Yakata" (Hiyoshi-mura, Kiso-gun, Nagano Pref.).
This time, I did not visit "Tomoegafuchi"deep pool, playing zone where Komaoumaru
(childhood name of General Kiso Yoshinaka) and Tomoe (later, following him as femail
military commander, Tomoegozen) enjoyed in their childhood.

Adera river is picturesque. This river is on the way to a place, Nojiri from "Kakisore
Ravine" through "Forest Spa Kiso".
The light reflected off water of the river and white stones on the riverbed, leading to
emerald green river. Many private cars are parked along Adera river. Family and
the children were doing water play at the dry river bed.

≪Kakisore Ravine≫
Please seethe preceding page.

<about 2 and a half hours' drive from Seto City thorugh National road No.248 -
Prefecture road No.66 - National road No.19>

≪Hiyoshi-mura(or Hiyoshi village), Kiso-gun, Nagano Pref.≫
About 1 hour-drive to north on National road No.19 through a place, Nojiri. from
"Kakisore Ravine"
Hiyoshi-mura is a hometown of tragic hero "Asahi-Shougun (or general),
Kiso Yoshinaka" and a beautiful female general "Tomoegozen".

This is the place where Minamotono Yoshinaka (or "Kiso Yoshinaka") spent the
childhood time at the Heian period. Yoshinaka and Tomoe were childhood friends.
When adolescence came around, they became in love with each other naturally.
She had been at his side as a nobleman's concubine. Yoshinaka did not make her
a legal wife but he dared totake her as a nobleman's concubine.
She is famous as a female warrior who ran about on battlefields with Yoshinaka.

【Quotations from web pages "Kiso Yoshinaka/Tomoegozen Grave/ Tokuonji Temple"
in "Japanese History Romance" 】

≪Life of Kiso Yoshinaka≫
As the second son of Yoshikata Minamotono , Kiso Yoshinakath was born at a mansion
in a country, Musashi the first year of Kyuju era (1154), and was called Komaoumaru.
It was a time of his being 2 years old that his father, Yoshikata was attacked and ruined
by Yoshihira, an eldest son of Yoshikata's elder brother, Yoshitomo.
Komaoumaru escaped to Kiso, a country in Shinano district by sympathy of Shigeyoshi
Hatakeyama and Sanemori Saito, and was brought up by Kaneto Nakahara.
Komaoumaru declared himself Kiso Jiro Minamotono Yoshinaka after "Genpuku"
(See Note 1), the coming-of-age ceremony for a boy the first year of Nin-an era (1166).
Then he raised an army to hunt down and kill the enemy, Heike clan under an order
by 2nd prince, Mochihito of Houou, Goshirakawa (See Note 2) 4th year of Jishou era
(1180) and marched on Hokuriku region (in the northwest of Kyoto) 2nd year of Juei era
(1183).
It is especially famous that Yoshinaka attached the torch to the horn of cows at the
Kurikara Pass , and drove Heike's large force into a corner and destroyed completely.
After that, Yoshinaka entered Kyoto and was nominated as the Barbarian subduing
Great General.
But, he was defeated by Kamakura army under a trick of Houou, Goshirakawa and
died at a place, Awazugahara the first year of Genryaku era (1184).
It was short whole life of 31 years old.

≪Note 1≫　Genpuku
"Genpuku" means a ceremony to show that a boy reached the adult at the age of
about 12.
≪Note 2≫ Houou
"Houou" means a retired emperor with a Buddhist name; a monk emperor; the ex
emperor..

【Quotations from web page "Yoshinakayakata"】

義仲館（よしなかやかた） Yoshinaka-yakata	徳音寺山門前の白蛇の泉 Fountain of white snake in front of main gate of Tokuonji temple	泉の白蛇の接写 Close up of the white snake

徳音寺山門 Main gate of Tokuonji temple	山門接写 Close up of the main gate

徳音寺山門内側から外を見る Viewing outside from the inside of the main gate	ええか観音 Eeka Kan-non ＜Goddess of Mercy asking something＞

保養所の部屋から外を見る Viewing outside at a room in company resort house	５色唐辛子｢道の駅賎母｣で購入し帰宅後庭に植え替えた Five colors' pepper purchased at a road station "Shizumo" and transplanted into garden	食用唐辛子｢道の駅賎母｣で購入し帰宅後庭に植え替えた Edible pepper purchased at a road station "Shizumo" and transplanted into garden