Sogadera(Soga Temple)
About 800 years ago, Minamoto-no Yoritomo held a "Fuji no makigari" ( a beat hunting session in the vicinity of Mt.Fuji) in this area. It was at that time that the Soga brothers' revenge took place. The brothers managed to kill Kudo Suketsune, their father's enemy, but both Juro, the elder brother and his younger brother, Goro, met with a tragic end. Juro was 22 years old and Goro 20. Those two young showing a lot of courage in returning their father's obligation showed whole heartedness in their fight against the Bakufu Shogunate's authority. Unfortunately the deed finished in tears. Around Sogadera Temple, the family temple of the Soga brothers, a thick growth of many-hundred years old miscanthus and pasania trees (all designated as the City's Natural Monuments) seem to pray for the repose of the two brothers' souls. ( A large scale mass is held in their memory every year on the 28th and 29th of may, their death anniversary.)
Sogahachimangu(Sogahachiman Shrine)
At the time their father was killed by Suketsune, the brothers were respectively 5 and 3 years old. One day, the elder brother pointing at the sky remarked that wild geese flying in a flock overhead looked like a loving family, to which his younger brother answered by swearing that they would kill their father's enemy at any cost someday. It is said that Yoritomo built Sogahachimangu Shrine where stand the statues of the two brothers as infants. ( A large scale ceremony is held four times a year in memory of their deaths on the 28th of January, April, July and November.)
The source is "PICK UP FUJI CITY No.4" published by Fuji Tourism Association.