. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
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shooya 庄屋と伝説 Legends about Shoya, the village headman
A village headman usually lived in a large home and wielded a lot of power.
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. hikyaku 飛脚 伝説 legends about fast messengers . *
. Kobo Daishi 弘法大師 and Jizo Legend . *
. Tengu 天狗 Legend .
戸たてず庄屋 "Home of the village head with no doors"
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. yashikigami 屋敷神 and zelkova tree . *
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南伊豆町 Minami-Izu town / 韮山 Nirayama
. tanuki 狸 - mujina 狢 － racoon dog, badger legends .
At the home of shooya 庄屋 the village headman, there stayed a man named 韮山様 Nirayama Sama. When eating he would not allow people to look at him.
He was a Tanuki !!
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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
113 庄屋 to collect
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2 comments:
Legend from Kochi 高知県 安芸郡 Aki district 奈半利 Nahari
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kosodate yuurei 子育て幽霊 a ghost rearing a child
Once upon a time a woman named 由里 Yuri had an affair with shoya 庄屋 the village headman and gave birth to a baby. But soon she became a lung disease, went back to her family and died soon. At night there was a knock at the gate of the village headman and they heard the voice calling the name of the baby. When the baby heard the voice, it woke up and begun to move its mouth like sucking the breast. This went on for quite a while and they thought the ghost of Yuri had come back to feed her baby.
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https://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.com/2020/01/haibyo-lung-disease-legends.html
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Legend from Nagano 長野県
. Oni densetsu 鬼伝説 Regional Demon Legends .
Once upon a time, the shooya 庄屋 headman of the village was the fifth generation of 須江家 the Sue family.
During this time there was an epidemic and many villagers died. To stop the epidemic, the headman vowed to accept all oni 鬼 demons of the epidemic into his estate if the village would be saves.
And indeed, the epidemic stopped.
Since then the family does not throw beans at the demons during 節分 the Setsubun rituals, but open the doors to let them all come in.
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hayariyamai はやり病 / 流行病と伝説 Legends about epidemics
densenbyoo 伝染病 Densenbyo contagious diseases
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https://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.com/2020/02/hayariyamai-epidemic-legends.html
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