One-eyed Shimizu - Hard Shimizu

According to the Oshu Gosannenki, Kagemasa was shot through the left eye by Yasaburo Toriumi, but he did not flinch and immediately shot back an arrow, killing him. It is also said that when his colleague Tametsugu Miura tried to step on Kagemasa's face to remove the arrow, Tametsugu reprimanded him for the rudeness of stepping on a samurai's face and made him apologize. There is a Goryo Shrine dedicated to him in his hometown of Kamakura, where he is affectionately known as Gongoro-san. In the Oshu region, there are many places that tell the legend of the so-called Katame-Shimizu, in which Kagemasa, who injured his eye, bathed in a sacred spring on his way back from the battlefield to heal the wound from the arrow, and the custom of worshiping Kagemasa as a god is widely practiced. The belief in "Mehitotsu Goro" (a boy with one eye) preached by Kunio Yanagita is one in which "Goro" is associated with "Goryo", but according to the Azuma Kagami, from the summer to the fall of 1185 (Bun'ei 1), there were frequent occurrences of divine miracles at Goryo Shrine in Kamakura, and it is known that the shrine's oracles were worshipped by the people.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Katame Shimizu" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…《奥州後三年記》によると，このとき景政は，鳥海弥三郎のために左目を射抜かれたが，ひるむことなく即座に答えの矢を射返してこれを倒したといい，また同僚の三浦為次がささった矢を抜くために景政の顔を足で踏もうとしたところ，武士の顔を土足にかける無礼をとがめ，これを謝らせたともいう。その出身地である鎌倉市坂の下に，彼をまつる御霊神社があり，〈権五郎さん〉の通称で親しまれているが，奥羽地方には，目を負傷した景政が戦場からの帰途に霊泉に浴してその矢傷を治したという，いわゆる〈片目清水〉の伝説を伝えるところが多く，また景政を神としてまつる風習が広くおこなわれている。柳田国男が説いた〈目一つ五郎〉の信仰で，〈五郎〉を〈御霊〉に付会したものだが，《吾妻鏡》によると，1185年(文治1)の夏から秋にかけて，鎌倉の御霊神社にしきりに神異があったことが記されており，その託宣が人々に崇められていたことが知られる。…

※「片目清水」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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