Suwa Shrine - Agatsuma District

Naganohara Suwa Shrine Main festival god Ken Onomoku Life Yasaka Sword Sale God of God, Dainichi Komei, Amaterasu Okami, Ukashino Otome Life, Fire Product Relic Life, Situation Satoshi Life, Sansu Hayasu Sanso Daijin Sugawara Michizane Kaneyama Honmei Ukemochi Life Oyama Jinmei Naganohara, where our company sits, prospered as the center of Miharano Sho Naganohara in the Middle Ages. Sanada's record "Kazawa" written at the beginning of the Edo period includes "Naganohara Battle Battle" in 1563 during the Warring States Period (1563), in which the name of Suwa Myojin is recorded. From that, we can see that our company was established at that time. In the precinct, there is a monument of "the remains of the Battle of Naganohara". It is said that Torii has flowed back through the Shirasuna River due to the mudflow damage of the third year of the Tenmei (1783) and has reached Kaize. A shrine fire was hit in March 1910 (Meiji 43), but it was worthwhile that the cherry blossoms in the precincts stopped the fire, and it was rebuilt in November of the same year. The cherry blossoms have been magnificent for more than 150 years since the temple fire, and are said to be the sacred tree of the fire (left side of the precinct). (From the precinct information board) "Kawazawa", the oldest historical material about Nishi-Azuma district It is a memorandum left by a man named Heiji Saemon, a Numata clan in the Genroku era. Born in the Numata clan when Mr. Sanada reigned, Kazawa later became the right hand brush of the feudal lord, Masato Sanada, by working at the Ozasekisho, a west strategic point of the Western Agatsuma region. Kazawa's story is a summary of what Kazawa heard about in Nishi Agatsuma, and Suwa Shrine appears in this "Kazawa story" as Ryohashi Hashi (Naganohara) as the Suwa Daimyojin. Until "Battle of Naganohara" Shingen Takeda and Kennobu Uesugi clashed in the Battle of Kawanakajima (the fourth) in the fall of the Eight Years (1561), and Shingen Takeda made a tremendous sacrifice and held Kita Shinano in his palm. As a result, Shingen will move to the Ueno area. At that time, Nishi Azuma was accompanied by Mr. Saito of Iwatsuki Castle to the neighboring Togo. Mr. Hao of Hao Castle (Haneo Castle) and Mr. Kamahara of Kamahara Castle, etc., who are descendants of Mr. Shino of Kita-Shinano, are descendants of the family, but they are in conflict with each other over the territorial borders and use it for Mr. Saito. Was being done. When Mr. Kamahara learned that Mr. Sanada was heavily used by Shingen Takeda in Shinano Kita, he went to Shingen Takeda with his helper and tried to rob Sanada with Mr. Sanada as a backing. However, immediately after a counterattack by Mr. Saito and Mr. Hao, Mr. Kamahara abandoned the castle, fled to Kita Shinano, and moved under Shingen Takeda, so Kamahara Castle passed to Mr. Hao. In June 1562, when Mr. Hao went to Manza Onsen for hot spring healing in June 1562, Mr. Kamahara borrowed Sanada soldiers and rushed to Kamahara Castle to recover the almost empty castle without difficulty. . The surrounding Saji Samurai descended to Sanada one after another. Mr. Hao, who was unable to return to Hao due to this withdrawal from the route, flew over Torii Pass to Takai in Kita-Shinano. Yukitaka Sanada entrusts the castle of Naganohara to his younger brother Takanaga Tsuneda (Shinrokuro). What happened after this was the “Naganohara Battle”. Mr. Hao, who had fled to Takai, managed to reach Iwahisa castle and asked Mr. Saito for help. Saito will attack Naganohara Castle from the three sides of South, East, and North with the aid of Mr. Nagao of Shirai Castle of Higashi-Azuma. Takanaga Tsuneda, who defends, tried to overcome it by cutting the Sugawabashi and Kotobashi over the Sugawa and Azuma Rivers. However, the Saito army cuts down the trees in the mountains, throws them down into Sugawa, and crosses the river. General General Takanaga Tsuneda took the lead in leaving the castle and attacked the Saito army at the grounds of Suwa Daimyojin (Suwa Shrine), but many were ineffective and Takanaga Tsuneda was killed and the Sanada and Kamahara forces were defeated. . After this, Yukitaka Sanada thought that it was impossible to push, and began to cut down the samurai who follow Saito with a strategy, which caused Mr. Hao and Mr. Yumoto of Kusatsu Onsen to turn over to Sanada, and Yukitaka Sanada was Iwatsuki Castle. Successful capture. However, Mr. Saito escaped to Echigo and relied on Kenshin Uesugi, and this time Mr. Uesugi embarked on the capture of Iwatsuki Castle. (From the website "Encyclopedia of national shrines and temples")