Multilingual AI audio guide exhibit on WOUDiO (PWA). WOUDiO pioneered the world’s first audio guide platform with built-in donation: listeners can support the cultural venue without leaving the listening experience. The text below is the localized description, details, and narration script for this audio guide stop.
In Sakanoshita, in Hase, at the end of a narrow lane lined with houses, stands a small shrine. Goryo Shrine. It is dedicated to a warrior named Kamakura Gongoro Kagemasa.
Kagemasa was a warrior of the late Heian period. It is said that at the age of sixteen he joined the fighting in the northeast, and that even with an arrow lodged in his right eye he fought on and struck down his enemy. The tale of his courage was carried from the battlefields of the northeast to this land and handed down, and locally he has long been known with affection as Gongoro-sama.
The Enoden runs right past this shrine's torii gate. Between the torii and the tracks, there are only a few steps. The train rolls slowly by, close beside the worshippers passing through the gate. The line was laid at the end of the Meiji era. For a little over a hundred years, trains have been passing before this ancient shrine.
At the annual festival each autumn, the Menkake Gyoretsu, the masked procession, takes place. People wearing distinctive masks, of tengu, demons, the round-cheeked Okame and more, parade through the town together with the portable shrine. It is a procession that carries the look of Kamakura's old festivals into the present.
Tall trees rise in the shrine grounds, casting deep shade in summer. Once a train has passed, all that remains in the grounds is the sound of cicadas and the wind blowing in from the sea at Sakanoshita.
Beyond the level crossing, the lane runs through the houses of Sakanoshita and down to the sea at Yuigahama.
