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sekitoo 石塔 / セキトウ と伝説 Legends about Sekito stone towers
gorintoo 五輪塔 grave marker with five layers


source : 滋賀県 石塔寺

Ishidooji 石塔寺（いしどうじ）Temple Ishido-Ji
滋賀県東近江市石塔町860

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. sotooba 卒塔婆 と伝説 Legends about Sotoba grave markers .
gorintoo, gorintō 五輪塔 Gorinto, "five-ringed tower", is another version of the Sotoba.


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......................................................................................... Akita 秋田県
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山本郡 Yamamoto district 二ツ井町 Futatsui //五輪塔

. 荒神様 Kojin Sama at 房住山 Mount Boju .




......................................................................................... Chiba 千葉県
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銚子市 Choshi city

At the shrine 御嶽神社 Mitake Jinja
の海亀墓石塔にまつわる伝承。S42年，イワシ漁の最中にウミガメを巻き込んで殺してしまった。その後一ヶ月ほどは漁に出ても網に入ったイワシが皆出て行ってしまうことが続いたが，石塔を建立して供養すると漁ができるようになった。




......................................................................................... Kyoto 京都府
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伏見 Fushimi

下鳥羽の南、横大路村街道の東、飛鳥田神社の例祭の御旅所の傍らの榎の下に、高さ5尺程の五輪の塔婆がある。昔の村長の塔であるといい、夜な夜な怪異をなすという。あるとき勇猛の人が太刀で斬ったところ、血の跡が残ったという。

. Fushimi Kaido 伏見街道 Fushimi Highway .

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sekitoo 石塔 / セキトウ / shakutoo しゃく とう stone pagoda / 五輪の塔婆
South of 下鳥羽 Shimo-Toba, in the East of 横大路村街道 the Yoko-Oji there is the Shrine 飛鳥田神社 Asukata Jinja.
During the annual grand festival, the otabisho 御旅所 resting place for the Mikoshi, is arranged under the large enoki 榎 nettle tree.
There is a stone pagoda of about 1.50 meter.
In former times this was the grave marker of the village elder, but it would produce strange and weird things.
Once a brave Samurai cut it in half with his large sword. Oh wonder, blood begun to flow out of the wound.
And then the village was quiet again.




......................................................................................... Tokyo
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足立区 Adachi ward

yuurei 幽霊 ghost
At 江戸柳原 Yanagihara in Edo a woman had died in 1683 in the summer.
At that time a ghost had appeared in the evening and pulled the sleeve of a maid servant. When she came back from her errant, the whole sleeve had disappeared. Next morning she went to the grave of the dead woman and found the sleeve hanging on sekito 石塔 the grave stone pagoda.




......................................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県

gorinzaka ゴリンザカ
In 都留市, 矢島員雄氏の畑の畔にある五輪の石塔のそばの坂をゴリンザカというが、これはこの石塔があるからとも、誰かがこの坂で5厘拾ったからとも、武士のゴリンサンが切腹した場所だからともいう。なお、馬に乗ってこの坂の石塔の前を通り過ぎるものは、必ず落馬するという。

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北都留郡 Kita-Tsuru district

. shikazuka no tatari 鹿塚のたたり curse of the deer mound .
at 諏訪神社 Suwa Shrine of 川久保 Kawakubo


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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
43 to explore (03)
27 五輪塔 gorinto (01)

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