A historic park honoring Hatakeyama Shigetada (1164-1205), a key Kamakura shogunate retainer who was ambushed and killed here at Futamatagawa in 1205 by the scheming of Hojo Tokimasa. Revered posthumously as a paragon of upright samurai virtue and called \'the mirror of Bando warriors,\' his bronze statue and memorial pagoda stand in the park, preserving the tragedy of the Kamakura period.

Hatakeyama Shigetada (1164–1205) was a prominent retainer of the Kamakura shogunate, based in Musashi Province, who served with unwavering loyalty since Minamoto no Yoritomo's uprising. On the 22nd day of the sixth month of Genkyu 2 (1205), he was lured into a trap by Hojo Tokimasa and Yoshitoki, an…