| The Kumano Road is running on the west
side of the pond . The pond was said to be
made by damming back a valley caused by erosion
of Uemachi table land and it was used for
irrigation toward the end of the Meiji era.
This area was once a sparsely populated
place , so people hesitated to draw near
for fear that a devil lived around here But
when Shoutokutaishi recited a sutra named
Mandala -kyo , the devil gave in to him .
So "Mandai -ike " was said to be
a corrupted form of " Mandala -ike "
. A theory was put forward that the local
name of Nagaino -ura recited in the Senzaisyu
poems corresponds to this area but according
to another theory , it was a moat of an ancient
tomb . Cherry is now planted around here
and there is a quiet appearance considering
that it is situated in an urban city . |
