Sennin Kanda Sao-Uchi

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Kanda 竿打仙 Kanda Sen/ 竿打ち仙人 Sao-Uchi Sennin

He is Nr. 30 of
. 日本の仙人37人 - The 37 Immortals of Japan .

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kanda (sao-uchi) means "hitting with a pole".

竿打（さおうち）仙人 Saouchi Sennin

The quest for an immortal life is long and difficult, and some try very hard but do not get anywhere.
Sao-Uchi lived in the Nara period, but not much is known about him.

It seems he took a lot of elixirs of immortality, but his body never got light enough to fly.
He had almost given up of ever making any progress, when he made another effort and could fly above the ground for about 2 or 3 meters.
The other villagers thought this was something special not everybody could do and begun to respect him.
Bud the bad kids of the village made fun of him and hit and chased him around with a pole like a butterfly.

In haste he jumped up again, but again they came after him with the pole.
Eventually he became invisible . . . at least nobody knew where he had gone.


source : toki.moo.jp/gaten/ 475 ...

For some reason he was mentioned in a book from 1097:
本朝神仙記伝 / 本朝神仙伝 Honcho Shinsenden - Lives of Japanese immortals.

「竿打（さをう）ちの仙（ひじり）は、大和の國の人なりけり。仙（ひじり）の道を学べども俗骨（ぞくこつ）猶（なお）し（しはなおを強めていう語）重くして、藥餌（やくじ）の力も施（ほどこ）し難くぞありける。地を離れて飛べども、その高さ七八尺に過ぎざりしかば、年少（としわか）き兒童（わらべ）ら、皆竿（さを）を捧げて追ひたり。故（かるがゆゑ）に此（かか）る名をぞ得たりける。その終（は）つるところを知らざりけり」


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