According to tradition, his
grave can be found under a
tabu no ki tree near the
Yuigahama end of
Wakamiya Ōji Avenue in
Kamakura,
Kanagawa Prefecture,
Japan, next to
Tsurugaoka Hachimangū's first torii (
Ichi no Torii). This identification likely is due to the grave's location within the former Hatakeyama estate, and to the fact that Shigeyasu is known to have been killed in battle by soldiers of the
Hōjō in Yuigahama. Next to the
hōkyōintō stands a black
stele (on the left in the photo) erected in 1920, which explains the circumstances of Hatekayama's death. Its text reads: Hatakeyama Shigeyasu's residence Hatakeyama Shigeyasu was
Hatakeyama Shigetada's eldest son. He had had a quarrel with Hiraga Tomomasa, who was
Hōjō Tokimasa's son-in-law. Tomomasa had not forgotten the fact and so spoke to Tokimasa against both the Hatakeyama. Tokimasa himself had not forgotten how Shigetada had, following
Minamoto no Yoritomo's will, tried to protect the
shōgun's son and heir
Yoriie, and was looking for an excuse to kill them. Having received from shōgun
Sanetomo the order to arrest the Hatakeyama, he surrounded Shigeyasu's residence with his soldiers. Shigeyasu fought well, but in the end was killed. The day was July 10, 1205, and this is where the residence stood. The day after, Shigetada himself was tricked into going to Musashinokuni's [a region in the north eastern part of Kanagawa] Futamatagawa, where he was killed. Erected in March 1922 by the Kamakurachō Seinendan Shigeyasu was one of the samurai who, in December 1204, was chosen to go to Kyoto to pick up shōgun Sanetomo's wife, and it was in that occasion that, at a feast, he had a verbal fight with Hiraga Tomomasa, who was responsible for the capital's defenses. It appears that this fact, plus the hostility existing between Shigetada and Tomomasa, who had neighboring fiefs, offered the Hōjō a pretext to get rid of the
Hatakeyama clan, that consequently became extinct. It would be revived later by
Hōjō Tokimasa. ==The legend of the
Bofuseki==