haibyo lung disease legends

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haibyoo 肺病と伝説 Haibyo, Legends about lung diseases
shiwabuki 咳病 influenza



病とむきあう江戸時代　― Diseases of the Edo period　
外患・酒と肉食・うつと心中・出産・災害・テロ
岩下哲典 Iwashita Tetsunori
(目次) table of contents
第1章 外患(ロシア船の出没)と藩医
第2章 藩医の出張旅行と酒・肉食
第3章 藩医の好んだ酒と酒を好んだ大名の話
第4章 「うつ」の藩士をどうするか
第5章 御掘で心中した男女
第6章 幕末籠城と懐妊・出産
第7章 廃藩時期の公務・子どもの死・出産
第8章 災害にむきあった写真大名
第9章 医師シーボルトが見た幕末日本「これが日本人である」
第10章 病とむきあう江戸の医師たちを学ぶ

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ie no kai-i 家の怪異 families with a weird story
A certain family tells of an ancestor who was a priests. He took a consort and worked hard to become very rich. But
even now when the children grow up to become adults they get 肺病 a lung disease and die. Very seldom the skin of their arm looks like 蛇の鱗 the scales of a snake.
Another family tells of ancestors who killed kusuri uri 薬売り a medicine vendor and buried him in the back of the estate. They became rich for a short time and then the family died out.


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haibyoo no kami 肺病の神 Haibyo no Kami, deity of lung diseases

Hyogo 姫路市 Himeji city 飾磨郡 Shikama area

If a person has died from a lung disease, he is placed into the coffin together with a
mizugame 水瓶 large water pot and carried out of the house.
The haibyoo no kami 肺病の神 deity of lung diseases is usually lurking in a mizugame 水瓶 a large earthenware water pot and can thus be carried out of the home too.



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......................................................................................... Aichi 愛知県
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北設楽郡 Kita-Shitara district 東栄町 Toei town

. Karasu Tengu 烏天狗 Crow Tengu .
the hunter 為義 Tameyoshi and the reiyaku 霊薬 a wonder-drug, miraculous medicine




......................................................................................... Akita 秋田県
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仙北市 Senboku city 西木町 Nishiki town

kamidana no tatari 神棚の祟り curse of the shelf of the Gods
A man named 田口イシノ Taguchi Ishino used a stone to perform uranai 占い fortune telling. She was called イシガミサマ Ishigami Sama.
She could find out the cause of a disease that a doctor could not cure any more or find out where a missing person was living.
She would use tsukemono ishi 漬物石 a heavy stone for making pickles and mumble prayers and then suddenly the heavy stone would feel very light.
When the husband of 赤倉ハルエ Akakura Harue had died of haibyo 肺病 a lung disease, she found this:
He had not put water offerings on the kamidana shelf for 天照大神 the Sun Godess Amaterasu Omikami and had thus been cursed.
While Ishino san was telling this, she trembled terribly.

. kamidana 神棚　household Shinto altar .




......................................................................................... Fukushima 福島県
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東白川郡 Higashi-Shirakawa district 塙町 Hanawa town

. hebi 蛇と伝説 Legends about snakes and serpents .
At a hamlet named 浅川 Asakawa a villater became a lung disease and drunk the blood of shimahebi 縞蛇 a striped living snake (Elaphe quadrivirgata).
The lung disease healed, but his child born soon after was a little snake. His wive became crazy and died. They say this was
hebi no tatari 蛇の崇 the curse of the serpent

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Fukushima いわき市 Iwaki town

otoko no kuseyami 男のクセヤミ morning sickness of a man
Once a young farmer with a sudden lung disease was greatly discriminated by the fellow villagers.
Some whispered that his wife had also caught the disease. After a while all rumours died down and then his wive gave birth.
Now the villagers understood that the couple had suffered from kuse クセ（tsuwari つわり） morning sicknes




......................................................................................... Hyogo 兵庫県

If a person with a lung disease sleeps with kuroneko 黒猫 a black cat in his arms, he will recover.
- In 三重県 Mie prefecture 鳥羽市 Toba city 志摩 Shima
A person with a lung disease should look at kuroneko 黒猫 a black cat.




......................................................................................... Iwate 岩手県
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和賀郡 Waga district

Grilling mikan みかん tangerines before eating will cause the outbreak of a lung disease.

. mikan 蜜柑 (みかん) mandarin orange, tangerine .




......................................................................................... Kochi 高知県
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安芸郡 Aki district 奈半利 Nahari

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.





......................................................................................... Nagano 長野県
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岡谷市 Okaya city

kimotori キモトリ taking out the liver
There is a place where they say someone takes out the liver of a person to make medicine, which is good for healing 肺病 lung diseases.
Nobody should go to this place alone, and certainly not at night !




......................................................................................... Nagasaki 長崎県
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佐世保市 Sasebo city

. migawari Daishi 身代わり大師 Kobo Daishi substitutes for us .
Once a man became 肺病 a difficult lung disease and the specialist doctor told him he had maybe just half a year to live.
The man got an amulet of Kobo Daishi to substitute for him, got healed and could continue to work in the fields as a farmer.






......................................................................................... Okinawa 沖縄県

If your head is ill, you must eat the head of a buta 豚 pig.
If your lungs are ill, you must eat the lung of a pig.




......................................................................................... Osaka 大阪府
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大阪市 Osaka city

haibyoo no kusuri 肺病の薬 medicine for lung diseases
At a certain temple behind the Shrine 露の天神 Tsuyu no Tenjin there is the grave of a woman named かしく Kashiku, who was a whore and always drunk, even killing her brother. She was executed and buried here.
In front of the grave is a small hand water basin. People take the water home and boil it with medicine to heal 肺病 their lung disease.

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Tsuyu-no-Tenjinja Shrine (Ohatsu Tenjin)
The shrine takes its name from a poem by the great Heian era scholar Suguwara Michizane.
However, today the shrine is better known for its romantic associations as it is a key setting of the bunraku puppet play: The Love Suicides of Sonezaki.
- source : osakastation.com/tsuyu-no-tenjinja... -

. Tenjin Sama - Sugawara Michizane Legends 天神菅原道真伝説 .




......................................................................................... Tottori 鳥取県
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西伯郡 Saihaku district 中濱村 Nakahama village

. healing with a sotoba 塔婆 grave marker .


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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -


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