Sheltered by Hakone Gongen, and the Origin of the "Nisho Mode"
歴史事件
Having lost at Ishibashiyama, Yoritomo and his remaining followers fled from Toi's cedar-covered hills into the mountains of Hakone. According to the Kamakura shogunate's own chronicle, the Azuma Kagami, it was at this point that Gyojitsu, the head priest of Hakone Gongen (present-day Hakone Shrine), sheltered Yoritomo and helped him evade his pursuers. Yoritomo went on to cross by sea from Manazuru to Awa province, and from there rebuilt his forces. What this mountain came to mean to the shogunate he later founded is best shown by what followed: once the Kamakura shogunate was established, successive shoguns kept up an annual pilgrimage — the "Nisho Mode," or "Visit to the Two Shrines" — to both Hakone Gongen and Izusan Gongen. Gratitude for a mountain that had once sheltered a fugitive became, in time, an official rite of the shogunate.
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