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saru 猿と伝説 Legends about monkeys - Affen

. saru　申 /　猿　monkey .
- Introduction to the Zodiac animal -
and the MONKEY DEITIES IN JAPAN

. Sarutahiko 猿田彦大神 the Great Deity Sarutahiko .

. Yama no Kami 山の神 God of the Mountain
and Sarugami 猿神 the Monkey deity .

. enkoo, enkō 猿猴 Enko, Kappa as Monkey .
kawazaru, kawa no saru 川猿 "river monkey"



Tamausagi - Monkey Son Goku 玉兎　孫悟空
月岡芳年 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi



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shirozaru シロザル / 白猿, hakuen - a white monkey



......................................................................................... Miyazaki 宮崎県
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東臼杵郡 Higashi-Usuki district 諸塚村 Morotsuka village

Once upon a time, a man wanted to cut down the large maki 槙の大木 Japanese umbrella pine tree on the border of Morotsuka and 椎葉 Shiiba village. But that was not so easy, because the tree was sacred to the deity 市山大明神 Ichiyama Daimyojin. So the man went to Kyoto to have get a marking from 京都滝口大明神 Kyoto Takiguchi Daimyojin on his ax.
When he came back, a pair of white monkeys, husband and wife, came jumping to the tree and looked very, very sad, then they left.
The man floated the tree down the river to 美々津 Mimitsu town, but the monkeys came with him.
That night the tree started to burn and was lost.
The two monkeys have been the messengers of Ichiyama Daimyojin


......................................................................................... Yamagata 山形県

In Ushu there was an office for the mountain workers, where 大山十郎 Oyama Juro worked.
In the year 1818, he took out his family heirloom sword and held it into the wind.
There came a white monkey of about 1 meter hight, took the sword away and fled.
Oyama Juro and his fellow workers run after the monkey, but lost sight of him in the mountain forest.
Next day they searched in the mountain with more people, found the monkey with the sword around his body. The monkey took the sword to fight, but the humans could not hit his body at all. They could not even hit him with a bullet. It must have been a divine monkey.

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鶴岡市 Tsuruoka city

Once there was a priest who was also very skillful at the art of the sword.
One day the famous swordsman from Kashima, 塚原卜伝 Tsukahara Bokuden came along. They had a fight, but the priest won easily. The disciples of the priest captured Bokuden, who was lying on the ground, and wanted to hang him head-down from a tree.
Along came a white monkey with more monkey fellows and set Bokuden free.
Now Bokuden killed the priest and his disciples and burned the temple.
The white monkey must have been the local deity 叶宮権現 Kanomiya Gongen, an incarnation of 猿田彦 Sarutahiko.

. Tsukahara Bokuden 塚原卜伝 (1489 - 1571) .


- reference source : shonai-yamagata.com/... -

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山形　窪田郵便局　風景印 Stamp with specialities from Kubota town



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......................................................................................... Aichi 愛知県
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津島市 Tsushima city

. Lord of Owari hunting with falcons .




......................................................................................... Hiroshima 広島県
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廿日市市 Hatsukaichi city 宮島町 Miyajima town

. Monkeys getting hashika, mashin 麻疹 measles .




......................................................................................... Shiga 滋賀県
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坂本 Sakamoto

天皇が疱瘡にかかるときは坂本山王の社にいる猿が必ず疱瘡になるという。天皇のかさが軽ければ猿の病も重く天皇の病が重ければ猿はとみに軽くなるという。後光明帝崩御のとき坂本の猿は軽い疱瘡だったという。次の新帝が病気のとき坂本の猿も軽い疱瘡だったが、被衣をあつらえて猿に着させると猿は間もなく死に、帝は本復したという。


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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
382 猿 to collect

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