Oshidorizuka

It's a big stone monument.

Original Text

After eating at a restaurant near JR Utsunomiya Station, I saw it on my way back to the hotel. It's a stone monument along the back alley, but it's quite big and magnificent. It seemed to be relatively new, and I didn't feel anything like the taste.

A historic site with anecdotes of ostrich and hunters

Original Text

It stands quietly in a corner of a small children's park behind the main street extending from JR Utsunomiya Station to Tobu Station. A long time ago, when the surrounding area was a waterfowl sanctuary, a hunter who shot a male oshidori in Asarinuma noticed the lament of a female oshidori close to the corpse, entered into priesthood and set up a stone monument to make a memorial service. An anecdote It is a place to remain. When Muju Hoshi, a relative of Yoritsuna Utsunomiya, the fifth Lord of Utsunomiya Castle in the Kamakura period, stopped by Utsunomiya, I heard from the people of the land ...