Our last Saturday excursion left us with a few new memories and stirred up some old ones...like what it feels like to sit in a car for 6 hours! We were searching for a cave and a shrine but missed our turn and ended up in Enoshima (but that meant we got to have apple mango vanilla swirl ice cream cones). When we turned around we found that we couldn't take the road that Scott googled because it was a one way so we ended up on the "two way" street previously shown on the blog and tried a new route. Our valley excursion was a dead end - no cave and no shrine but there were tangled thorny vines and 6-12" grass all over the valley floor to climb through (I was wearing flip-flops - smart I know) and every single leaf on the vines seemed to have a red and black caterpillar hanging from its underside!
There really was no trail but at the top of the valley there were some mysterious cave like cut outs in the cliff wall and a sign explaining that the valley belonged to the Hojo Clan. So a few mosquito bites and scratches later (did I mention the enormous spiders and their webs?) we turned around and headed back for the car but not before we also found these awesome velvet flowers. Mom, could you identify them for me?
This little jungle valley was given to the Hojo clan in the 1500's for their service to the government.
The Hojo clan (北条氏) in the History of Japan was a family of regents of the Kamakura Shogunate. The family had actual governmental power, rather than Kamakura shoguns, who were merely legal symbols.
The Hojo clan (北条氏) in the History of Japan was a family of regents of the Kamakura Shogunate. The family had actual governmental power, rather than Kamakura shoguns, who were merely legal symbols.
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