. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
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shooyu 醬油 / 醤油 と伝説 Legends about Shoyu Soy Sauce
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Utagawa Hiroshige III - Making Soy Sauce
. shooyu 醬油 Shoyu, soy sauce, Sojasauce .
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......................................................................................... Ehime 愛媛県
folk belief
On the birthday of the family head people should not make soy sauce or Miso.
......................................................................................... Fukui 福井県
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大飯郡 Ōi district 高浜町 Takahama town
. Kooboo Daishi 弘法大師 Kobo Daishi Kukai Legends .
お大師様 O-Daishi Sama
There is a rock with three holes, each has a different ingredient: 酢 vinegar, 酒 sake and 醤油 soy sauce. Kobo Daishi made them when he was here to train in Buddhism.
Another version tells of three large pots between the rocks. People could come and scoope as much vinegar, sake or soy sauce as they needed and they would never grow empty.
But one day a greedy man came and scooped too much, so the intredients turned to water. This was the punishment of Kobo Daishi.
Later the villagers begun to pray to Kobo Daishi on this spot.
......................................................................................... Ishikawa 石川県
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白山市 Hakusan city
. niwatori 鶏と伝説 Legends about the rooster, cock, chicken .
niwatori no ashi ニワトリの足 the legs of a rooster
Once upon a time, the young people of the village came together and thought about something delicious to cook. They stole one chicken and burried it in the open hearth while it was still alive. They put soy sauce and salt into its mouth and ate it. When they had finished their meal, they opened the door and went outside into the garden.
As they stood there, the legs of a huge rooster came down from the sky and turned the head of each of them around once . . . so they all died on the spot.
......................................................................................... Kanagawa 神奈川県
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戸塚区 Totsuka district
neko 猫 a cat
At the home of the soy sauce merchant, a tenugui 手拭 hand towel disappeared every night. The shop owner thought this was strange and found out that the cat of the family came to take it away. The cats of the neighbourhood met every night and danced and his cat had used the hand towel to cover her face
source : serai.jp/living...
bakeneko cats dancing in Edo
......................................................................................... Niigata 新潟県
. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
Grandma had put some fish in her 弁当 Bento lunch box and went out to sell soy sauce. A fox trying to get the fish bewitched her to sell her soy sauce to a 松の木 pine tree. She thought the branches were the money and took it, then went to wash her legs in the river. A neighbour saw her, clapped her on the back and then she came to her senses.
......................................................................................... Okayama 岡山県
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勝山町 Katsuyama town
tsukimono つきもの bewitched / toobyoo とうびょう Tobyo
Tobyo is a small snake and can bewitch foxes, dogs and cats.
It is smaller than a fox, about the size of a rat. If a home gets bewitched they get rice and soy sauce and other things from the neighbours and become rich.
......................................................................................... Shizuoka 静岡県
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御殿場市 Gotenba city
fuurai neko フーライ猫 a wild cat
This cat can bewitch babies and can make a fever last longer. Driving out these kinds of cats people prepare a trap to catch it. The cat will then stop to call.
Bewitched people have to eat food prepared with boiled sugar and soy sauce to heal.
......................................................................................... Tochigi 栃木県
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鹿沼市 Kanuma city
okaimo オカイモ Okaimo
In the family of 柴田良夫 Shibata Yoshio they eat Okaimo for breakfast from the last day of the last lunar month till the third day of the first lunar month.
Okaimo is a dish of yatsugashira 八頭 / ヤツガシラ a kind of 里芋 Satoimo Taro potato, ninjin ニンジン carrots, goboo ゴボウ Gobo burdock and dried small fish flavored with soy sauce.
Once upon a time, a travelling priest asked for some taro 苧 Colocasia antiquorum potato but did not get it and the head of the family turned into a stone.
Since then they prepare Okaimo, Oka-Imo.
In the family of 上沢芳夫家 Uesawa Yoshio they prepare Okanimo オカンイモ and azuki meshi 小豆飯 auspicious rice with red soy beans.
Okanimo is made with chicken soup, ginko 銀杏 small cut gingko nuts, 大根 daikon radish, carrots, Gobo and onions. Finally Taro and soy sauce is added.
On the third day of the New Year this dish is offered to the Buddhist and Shinto Deities. After the offering it is put into cooked rice and eaten in the hope it might keep away the
疫病神 Yakubyogami Deity of Disease.
. Yakubyoogami 疫病神 Yakubyogami, Deity of Diseases .
......................................................................................... Tottori 鳥取県
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八頭郡 Yazu district 若櫻山田町 Wakasa Yamadamachi
. yamanba, yamauba 山姥 mountain hag .
Once an old woman built a hut in the mountains and begun to eat 蛇 snakes and 蛙 frogs. She used her white hair together with straw to make a robe. In Spring she collected mushrooms and warabi 蕨 fern to sell in the hamlet. She bought soy sauce and 味噌 Miso and then went back. The children were very afraid of her. If a child would not listen to its parents, they threatened saying: "We will ask Yamanba to come and get you!"
warabi, Pteridium aquilinum
......................................................................................... Wakayama 和歌山県
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日高郡 Hidaka district 由良町 Yura town
. udonge no hana 優曇華の花 Udumbara flowers and death .
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. animals and their legends 動物と伝説 - - ABC list .
. plants and their legends 植物と伝説 - - ABC list .
. trees and their legends 樹木, 木と伝説 - - ABC list .
. Persons, People, Personen and their legends - - ABC list .
. Legends about Kobo Daishi Kukai - 弘法大師 空海 - 伝説 .
. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
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