Taira-no-Tadanori was Taira-no-Kiyomori’s youngest brother and a general of samurai. He studied under Fujiwara Shunzei and was a good tanaka poet too. It is said that Taira clan was defeated in the Battle of Ichi-no-tani in 1184 and he was killed near the Ryoma River. -shot 1- This is the stone monument of the Ryoma, two horses, River. Since both he and Okabe Rokutaya Tadazumi fought each other on the horses there, the river was named the Ryoma River. It’s reported that this stone monument was made of the stone of Ryoma Bridge and Megane Bridge over the river once. -shot 2- This is Ude-zuka, the grave marker of right arm, Shrine. They held a memorial service for Tadanori’s right arm cut in the fight. After the Meiji Restoration the grave was replaced into the shrine. -shot 3- This is the signpost which showed Ude-zuka Route that led people to Ude-zuka from the highway. -shot 4- This is Tadanori-zuka. They buried Tadanori’s body and built the five-part gravestone. There is the stone monument carved the tanaka poem made by Matsudaira Tadakuni, the 5th feudal lord of the Akashi domain, who restored the grave marker fallen into ruin. They say that there is the Uma-zuka, the grave of Taira-no-Tsunemasa’s horse too. He was a tanka poet and Taira-no-Kiyomori’s nephew and Taira-no-Atsumori’s older brother. The tanka poet seemed to want to die at the place associated with the master of tanka poem Kakinomoto Hitomaro. The local people have maintained those historic sites carefully as their treasure continuously.
Akashi heritage-map “Hitomaru” 2018
