In the city of Hiratsuka, an unusual legend is told and an unassuming mound in the corner of a cemetery attests to its apparent credibility. According to the story, the incident took place during the Kounomachi, an annual festival jointly rub by five major shrines in the former Sagami Province region. Young men from two of the shrines, Samukawa Jinja and Hiratsuka Hachiman-gū, got into a heated argument and a fight broke out, which ended with the latter men throwing Samukawa’s sacred palanquin into the river. Though the palanquin was…
