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matsu 松と伝説 Legends about the pine tree / 松の木 matsu no ki

Pine trees show abundand green even in the fiercest of winter and hardly dry out, so they have been a symbol of long life in China since old times.
. matsu 松 pine - and its haiku .
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. plants and their legends 　植物と伝説 - - ABC list .

. Oni to kadomatsu　鬼と門松　Oni Demon Legends and New Year pine decorations .

. kadomatsu 門松と伝説 Legends about pine decorations .

. Tengu to matsu 天狗と松 the Tengu pine - Legends .
Tengumatsu 天狗松



"The Pine of Sumi-no-e" 住吉の松 and 高砂 the Takasago Legend


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............................................................................... Aichi 愛知県
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知多郡 Chita district 美浜町 Mihama

. kaminari matsu 雷松 "pine of thunder" .

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豊橋市 Toyohashi

. Niryuu no Matsu 二龍の松 Niryu no Matsu, "Pine like two dragons" .




............................................................................... Ehime 愛媛県

. ryuutoo no matsu 龍灯のマツ Ryuto - the Dragon Lamp Pine .
松前町西古泉65 Masaki Cho, Nishikoizumi, Iyo-Gun / 玉松山金蓮寺 Konren-Ji

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. Sai no Kami 塞の神の使い the messenger of the Deity. .




............................................................................... Fukui 福井県　　
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敦賀市 Tsuruga

. yama no kami koo 山の神講 prayer group for the god of the mountain .




............................................................................... Fukuoka 福岡県
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福岡市 Fukuoka city

. 筑前住吉神社　一夜の松 Chikuzen Sumiyoshi Jinja .




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有馬郡 Arima district

. Yamanokami no tatari 山の神の崇り curse of Yamanokami .




............................................................................... Ibaraki 茨城県

. 河童 - Kappa, the Water Goblin of Japan! .

Kappamatsu 河童松 Kappa pine

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a Kappa had brought many calamities to the village. One day a farmer was lucky and caught the Kappa. He bound him to a pine tree and wanted to kill him.
The Kappa begun to cry and beg for his life. He promised never to do harm again and protect the children from water accidents from now on.
And indeed, the Kappa kept his promise.




............................................................................... Kagawa 香川県

. Sanukiyama no densetsu 讃岐山村の伝説 Legends about Sanukiyama .
During amagoi 雨乞い a rain ritual, the Dragon King is venerated,
if there come white clouds, a Tengu comes down and sits on matsu no ki 松の木 a pine tree.
Now it begins to rain.




............................................................................... Kanagawa 神奈川県

. koshoo 古松 the old pine .
橘樹郡宿河原村 In the Tachibana district, Shukugawara village

. tatsu 竜 dragon at the root of a pine .
and the the fields of Gotanda village　五反田

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. kamishibai 紙芝居 "paper drama" .


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Tekkamatsu 鉄火松 "gunfire pine"
A legend from Aoba Ward, Yokohama City, Kurogane cho (Tetsu Town)
横浜市青葉区鉄町　－ at the border to 川崎市麻生区 Kawasaki, Asao ward


source : 麻生 Asao town news
- Tekkamatsu hi 鉄火松碑 Memorial stone at the place of the Gunfire Pine




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柴田町 Shibata town

. Ono no Komachi and the pine 小野小町手掛松. .

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白井市 Shiroi city 斎川松沢 Saikawa Matsuzawa

. chichigami 乳神 "breast deity" .




............................................................................... Nagano 長野県
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昔、松の木があまり大きくなかったころ、その松の幹にはこぶが２つあった。そのうちの１つを切ったところ、切り口から乳が出てきたので、それ以後はご神木として大切にした。昭和９年の台風で倒れたという。.
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/YoukaiCard/C2020373-000.shtml

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上伊那郡 Kami-Ina district 南箕輪村 Minami-Minowa

. shinboku 神木 a sacred tree and Typhoon .




............................................................................... Nara 奈良県
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山辺郡 Yamabe district 山添村 Yamazoe village 中峰山 Chumuzan hamlet

. 狩野元信 Kanō Motonobu, Kano Hogen (1476―1559）. .
- Yamanokami and 松の木 the pine tree painting




............................................................................... Niigata 新潟県
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. Grandma goes to sell soy sauce 醤油 .




............................................................................... Okayama 岡山県
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井原市 Ibara 東江原 Higashiebara

. The Yamabushi Temple 福寿院 Fukuju-In .

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Okayama 津山市 Tsuyama city

. The pine tree at 阿弥陀堂 the Amida Do Hall .




............................................................................... Shiga 滋賀県
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高島市 Takashima city

. Fukunokami 福の神 and the smoke of the open hearth .




............................................................................... Shimane 島根県

. sugegasa 菅笠 sedge hat and Yamanokami .




............................................................................... Tokushima 徳島県

. matsu no ki no baasan 松の木の婆さん the old hag from the pine tree .




............................................................................... Tokyo 東京

Some of the Nana Fushigi 七不思議 Seven wonders of Edo ;

. Ipponmatsu 一本松 Ippon-Matsu "Just one Pine tree" .
"Kanmuri-no-Matsu" and "Shugetsutei-no-Hagoromo-no-Matsu."
negai no matsu 願いの松 at Edo Castle Nana Fushigi 江戸城七不思議
chi no deru matsu 血の出る松 / 血のでる松 A bleeding pine tree
hikeshi no matsu 火消しの松 pine extinguishing a fire.

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府中市 Fuchu city

. The Deity 六所明神 Rokusho Myojin .

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西東京市 Nishi-Tokyo city 下保谷　Shimohoya / 鎌倉街道 Kamakura Kaido

. magarimatsu 曲がり松 the bent pine tree on a mound .

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猿江町 Sarue Cho - "Monkey Inlay"

. 小名木川五本松 Onagigawa Gohon Matsu .

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渋谷区 Shibuya ward

. Dogen Matsu 道玄松 Dogen pine tree .
Named after 大和田太郎道玄 Owada Taro Dogen.

. hitokui matsu 人喰松 "man-eating pine" .

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立川市 Tachikawa

. reiken 霊験 spiritual achievement and Kobo Daishi .

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台東区 Taito ward

. Shubi no Matsu 首尾の松 "Pine of Success" - Kuramae .




............................................................................... Tottori 鳥取県

. Yamanokami no tatari 山の神の祟り the curse of Yamanokami .
In the village of 向原 Mukaihara lived a man named 中村朝光 Nakamura Asamitsu....




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

西村山郡 Nishi-Murayama district
. kaeroo matsu かえろう松 pine tree to come home - Yamanokami .




............................................................................... Yamaguchi 山口県

. Guhin matsu グヒン松 Pine of the Guhin Yokai monster .
and Yamanokami, Tengu

. Shrine 降松神社 Kudamatsu Jinja .
said to be the origin of the belief in Myoken Shin 妙見神 the Myoken Deity.


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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
3096 松 to collect
44 wakamatsu 若松
including 松阪, 松江 ...
kadomatsu 門松 has extra entry

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Ariakeyama Ariakesan Nagano

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. Ariakeyama 有明山 Ariakesan, Mount Ariake - Nagano　

Nobutaroo 信太郎 Nobutaro
Once Nobutaro went with a friend to 有明山 Mount Ariakeyama.
When they tried to jump over the Tenguiwa 天狗岩 Tengu boulder, their bodies became an enormous in size and they jumped over 馬羅尾谷 Baraodani valley and disappeared.
Nobutaro's father 久作 Kyusaku, who had lost his only son, went everywhere to look for him. He could not find him and had to work in the fields all alone from that time on.
He build a small sanctuary for Nobutaro, 信の宮 Nobu no Miya.


有明山 Mount Ariakeyama (2268m).
Ariakeyama is also called
Shino Fuji 信濃富士 Mount Fuji of the Shino region.

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Ariake-yama (2268m)
Today, rather few people know Ariake-yama.
Of those who do, not many pay the mountain much regard. And, although the ridgeways between Yari-ga-take and Tsubakuro may be crowded enough to qualify as an Alpine “Ginza”, fewer still pay much attention to Ariake-yama even when they find it rearing up at them on their way to the foot of Tsubakuro. Rather, their eyes are drawn to the more imposing heights beyond. Ariake, it seems, has been consigned to the meizan of past ages.

In former times, though, people would direct their gaze not to those indistinct higher peaks but to the shapely mountain right in front of them, revering Ariake-yama as the Mt Fuji of Shinano Province. In an age when the Northern Alps were still “terra incognita”,
Ariake was celebrated by no less a poet than Monk Saigyō:

In Shinano on a day
It sent me awestruck on the way
To Hosono, the sight
Of mighty Ariake on the right


And then there are these lines by Monk Yūgyō:

By this moon’s kindly light
I will not lose the narrow
Road to Hosono, although
It leads me under Ariake’s height


- Ariake-yama seen from Otensho-dake; print by Yoshida Hiroshi -

According to an old chronicle, the mountain was opened in the second year of Daidō (807), when the great avatar Tohanachi Gongen was enshrined there at a place sacred to Ame-no-Uzume, where this goddess of dawn, mirth and revelry had manifested herself as a Buddha to save all living things. The mountain was once called Tohanachi-dake or “Door Away Peak”, in honour of the legend in which the sun goddess Amaterasu shut herself up in a cave and was coaxed out again when the goddess Ame-no-Uzume performed a comical dance. At which the god Tajikarawo-no-mikoto wrenched away the cave’s door and hurled it to earth at this very spot.

I came across this chronicle, the Record of Ariake’s Inauguration (Ariake Kaizan Ryakki), in Mr Kumahara Masao’s book on the dawn of Japanese mountaineering. By this account, the mountain mystic Yūkai, finding it lamentable that people had altogether given up climbing this sacred mountain, set out with his youngest brother in the sixth year of Kyōho (1721) together with fifteen or so villagers from the hamlet of Itadori at the mountain’s foot, and found his way over trackless slopes to the summit. There they stayed overnight and descended the next day.

The first path up the mountain was presumably opened on this occasion, as the chronicle says. And after a small shrine was installed on the summit, people came every summer, from far and wide, in droves to climb the mountain.

For evidence that this custom lasted into the Meiji period, we need look no further than Walter Weston, the mountaineering missionary and so-called Father of the Japan Alps, who climbed Ariake on August 14, 1912, in the first year of Taishō. Presumably he’d heard of Ariake’s reputation as a “meizan” of long standing. Most people associate Weston with Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps (1896), and rather fewer are aware of his later book, The Playground of the Far East (1918), which also concerns itself mainly with the mountains of Japan. This is probably because there is no translation. It is in this later book that he describes his ascent of Ariake.
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Azuma fushi 安曇節 song
「なにを思案の有明山に小首かしげて出たわらび」
- reference source : toki.moo 961 - - tba


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Nakatsuna koo 中綱湖 Lake Nakatsuna
Once upon a time, Mount Ariake and Lake Nakatsuna were fighting about which one was higher.
Then one day a pregnant woman came along and looked at mount Ariakeyama. She said laughingly: "Well Ariakeyama is not that high ... "
Since that time Mount Ariakeyama stoppe getting higher.


yakoo no tama 夜光の玉 a ball of light in the night
In the center of Mount Ariakeyama, there is a ball of light.
Because of this, the valley at its foot are never completely in the dark. They can never loose their way in a dark night.

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. Onipedia - 鬼ペディア　- Oni Demons of Japan .

- - - Hachimen Daioo 八面大王 "Great King with Eight Faces" - - -
魏石鬼 八面大王 （ぎしき はちめんだいおう） Gishiki Hachimen Daio is a legendary figure in Nagano.
Gishiki no Iwaya 魏石鬼の岩屋(ぎしきのいわや) Cave of the Gishiki Demon

At the foot om mount Ariakeyama there lived the farmer 弥左衛門 Yazaemon with his son 弥助 Yasuke.
The son has been abducted by a Demon named Hachimen Daio 八面大王. Yasuke grew up to be a fine young man. One day he helped a yamadori 山鳥 pheasant.
Three days later Yasuke med a beautiful young woman and married her. But Hachimen Daio became quite jealous and wild again.
When 坂上田村麻呂 Sakanoue no Tamuramaro came tho the Kannon Hall to pray, He had a vision telling him to use the feathers of a pheasant tail to make an arrow.
When Yaskue heard this, he begun to worry. But his wife, the incarnation of the pheasant, offered her tail feathers and then disappeared.
With this arrow, the evil Hachiman Daio could be shot down and driven away.
- Another version of this legend tells of Yazaemon being kidnapped by Hachimen Daio while he was looking for medicinal herbs in the forest. His wife had bo bring up Yasuke all by herself.

. Sakanoue no Tamuramaro 坂上田村麻呂 (758 - 811) .



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鬼神「おのれ田村麻呂、またお前か」（有明山魏石鬼）」
Once upon a time in the Heian period, there lived a demon named 魏石鬼 Gishiki at Mount Ariakeyama in Nagano.
He called himself 八面大王 the "Great King with Eight Faces".
He used all kinds of bad tricks and witchcraft and eventually the court in Kyoto send Sakanoue to drive him away.
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八面大王足湯 Hachimen Daio Ashiyu - Hot spring and foot bath

(Azumino)


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Daio Wasabi Farm was opened in 1917
and is named after the ancient local hero, Hachimen Daio, whose spirit is also said to be the farm's protector.
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明科町 Akashina

momiji onibito もみじ鬼人 Demon Momiji "red leaves.
Momiji Onibito was the wife of Hachimen Daio, but they quarreled all the time. Then came Tamuramaro and killed Hachimen Daio. He also tried to kill Momiji, and his third arrow hit her.
But later she she came back, all crying with pain.

monomi-iwa no oni 物見岩の鬼 the demon from Monomi Rock
The demon from Monomi Rock was very bad, stole things and tormented the farmers.
Tamuramaro killed him also.

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大町市 Omachi

Near the かや場 Kayaba reed field is a huge rock of about 1.5 m length.
Once uopn a time, when Hachimen Daio lived at Mount 矢沢山 Yazawayama a blacksmith brought his tools there to make weapons to fight this Oni, Hachimen Daio got angry and threw the rock in his way. They also say Tamuramaro used this rock to test his sword, so there is now a cut of about 30 cm in the rock.

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- reference source : nichibun yokai database -

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- - - Gishiki no Iwaya 魏石鬼窟 "Cave of the Gishiki Demon" - - -
古墳　Kofun Tumulus



This is a rock chamber where the demon Hachimen Daio is said to have hidden,
The ceiling of the chamber is one huge boulder.
Nearby are more boulders, the footsteps of Hachimen Daio 八面大王足跡岩

ドルメン式古墳
長野県安曇野市穂高有明宮城


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Tengu no Dairi Palace Emaki

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Tengu no Dairi 天狗の内裏 The Palace of the Tengu
'The Palace of the Long-Nosed Goblins'

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This is a story about the young Minamoto no Yoshitsune, who is taken on a tour of the underworld by a Tengu from Mount Kurama.
Written in the Muromachi period.
This story exists in numerous lavish picture scrolls and woodblock-printed editions in libraries and museums around the world.

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Ushiwaka's "Visit to Supernatural Regions (Tengu no dairi)
In this story, Ushiwaka learns of the existence of a tengu palace deep in the mountains and by offering prayers to Bishamon succeeds in visiting it.
The Great Tengu welcomes him hospitably and offers to take him to see Yoshitomo (his father), who has been reborn in the Pure Land as a Buddha. Following a tour of the 136 Buddhist hells, the two finally reached the Pure Land.
Yoshitomo urges Ushiwaka to destroy the Heike and then predicts his future.
Back in the Tengu palace, Ushiwaka and the Great Tengu exchange pupil-teacher vows
and Ushiwaka returns to Kurama.
Yoshitsune: A Fifteenth-century Japanese Chronicle
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Tengu no dairi emaki 天狗の内裏絵巻
picture scroll of the palace of the long-nosed goblins,
illustrated manuscript in 2 rolls, telling the story of the young Minamoto Yoshitsune
and of his visit to the court of Tengu.







Yoshitsune watches the Tengu fighting


- Yoshitsune And A Buddha
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. The Tengu Sōjōbō 僧正坊 from Mount Kurama .
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Tengu zeni coins money

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Tengu to zeni 天狗と銭 Legends about Tengu and coins

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. zeni, kozeni 銭、小銭 coins of Edo .
kinsen 金銭 money
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saisenbako 賽銭箱 box for donations with a Tengu leaf
from Akibayama



. saisen 賽銭 money offerings at a Shrine .



. sentoo 銭湯 Sento, public bath .



Tengu Yu 天狗湯 Tengu Bath House


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天狗銭 Tengu-Sen Manga


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上浮穴郡 Kami-Ukena district 久万高原町 Kuma Kogen

There is a rock named nusutto ishi 盗っ人石 (盗人石 / 盗人岩) "thief's rock".
Once a thief stole the money offerings from the shrine at 石鎚山 Mount Ishizuchisan.
But he was caught by the Tengu from the mountain, who threw him high in the sky. The stone is where the thief landed.



. Mount Ichizuchiyama, Ishizuchisan 石鎚山 1982 m.





............................................................................... Ibaraki 茨城県　
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常陸太田市 Hitachi Ota

天狗様 Tengu Sama，神様 Kami Sama
Once a man went to the local shrine and made a wish, but did not give any money offerings.
So the Tengu came after him and his house burned down.





............................................................................... Nagano 長野県　
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上田市 Ueda

Tarosan no Tengu 太郎山の天狗 Tengu from Mount Taro San
At the shrine 太郎山神社 Tarosan Jinja, during the annual festival, there was a farmer who took some of the money offerings home.
But when he reached his house, he found his rice storage house all empty. So he run back to the shrine and put the money in the offering box.


栃木県日光市の男体山にある神社. This Tarosan Jinja is in Nikko at Mount Nantaisan.





............................................................................... Okayama 岡山県　
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新見市 Niimi 哲西町 Tessei cho

kinsen 金銭 money
The local Tengu lives in the Tengu Matsu 天狗松 Tengu Pine.
If people have a wish for getting healed or are in need of money, they place a note on this tree.

. Tengu to matsu 天狗と松 Legends about the Tengu pine .





............................................................................... Tokyo 東京都　
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千代田区 Chioda ward

sentoo 銭湯 public bath
Around 1715, there lived a rich merchant in 江戸神田鍋町 Kanda Nabe Cho. One of his servants went out to the public bath on the 15th day of the New Year. But soon someone saw him coming out at the back door, in traveling robes. Investigating further, they found the man had been travelling since the 13th day of the 12th lunar month of the year before.
So someone, maybe the local Tengu, must have acted in his place.

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中央区 Chuo ward

sentoo 銭湯 public bath
A similar story as told in Chiyoda ward. The wandering servant even brought back presents from his trip.

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南多摩郡 Minami-Tama district 恩方村 Ongata mura

Once a man came walking down ヒナタ峰 Mount Hinata Mine when a coin with a hole came falling down from a pine tree. This mus be a trick of the Tengu, he thought.
He said out loud: "I will take this home and keep in venerated as a special amulet!", but he could not lift if from the ground.




............................................................................... Tottori 鳥取県　
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岩美郡 Iwami district

Once a man faced a financial problem near a place called Zenibatake ゼニバタケ / 銭畑 "Field of Zeni coins" in front of the Tengu-Iwa.
Suddenly a Tengu appeared and spread a lot of zeni out for him.



............................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県　
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大月市 Otsuki

At Mount サワオキ Sawaoki, where nobody lived, they found 中国銭 Chinese coins.
They say once upon a time a Tengu had lived here.

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. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .

. Tengupedia - 天狗ペディア　- Tengu 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 .

- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan -

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Tenguiwa, Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 / テングイワ / Tengu no Iwa 天狗の岩
Legends about Tengu boulders and rocks
Tenguishi, Tengu-Ishi 天狗石 Tengu Ishi, Tengu stone

. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .
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. Join the Tengu friends on Facebook .


..... the tengu-ishi (falling stones or pebbles), also have the character of a sudden event in the solitude of the mountains or forests.
The main point of the inauspicious activities of the medieval tengu may be described as anti-Buddhism.
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............................................................................... Ehime 愛媛県　
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今治市　Imabara 大三島町 Omishima

. Tenguiwa, Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 "Tengu rock" .
and
Yokomakura no Iwa 横枕の岩





............................................................................... Fukui 福井県　
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今立郡 Imadate district 池田町 Ikeda

When they were digging a canal for 月ヶ瀬用水 the Tsukigase Waterway, a Tengu came and disturbed them, throwing stones.
One of the workers went to Shikoku to pray at Konpira san and after that, the Tengu did not show up any more.
One of the rocks along the Waterway is called Tengu Iwa 天狗岩 "Tengu Rock".

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遠敷郡 Onyu district 名田庄村 Natasho

. Yama no Kami 山の神 God of the Mountain and Tengu legends .





............................................................................... Fukushima 福島県　
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南会津郡 Minami-Aizu district 大宮村 Omiya mura

Below the Tengu-Iwa there is a 天狗堂 Tengu Hall on the mountain road. There are a lot of tama-ishi 玉石 cobble stones. The villagers say they have been thrown from the opposite mountain by another Tengu during a fight.

南郷の天狗伝説 with photos
- reference source : minamiaizukankou/archives... -

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南郷村 Nango mura

Tengu ishi 天狗石 / O-Degu Sama オデグ様
O-Degu Sama (Tengu Sama) is a male deity. Once he played with a woman on the other side of the river, throwing pebbles at each other.
These are the Tengu Ishi. They sometimes fall down from the mountain even in our time.





............................................................................... Gunma 群馬県　

Tenguiwa Jinja 天狗岩神社 Shrine Tenguiwa



群馬県吾妻郡長野原町長野原打越 / Naganohara, Agatsuma District, Gunma
- HP of the shrine : plala.or.jp/tenguiwa... -

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前橋市 Maebashi


The Tenguiwa yoosui 天狗岩用水 Tenguiwa irrigation canal
is a name for two canals:
In 1604, 秋元長朝 Akimoto Nagatomo started the 越中堀 Etchubori canal .
In 1610, 伊那忠次 / 伊奈 忠次 Ina Tadatsugu (1550 – 1610) built the 代官堀 Daikanbori canal.



During the construction of the Etchubori, there was a huge boulder blocking the way. There came a Yamabushi mountain priest (a Tengu) and offered some prayers - now the boulder could be removed.
Thanks to the canals the Akimoto clan could extend its fields and agriculture land.
The greatfull farmers built a temple in honor of Akimoto, 光厳寺 Kogan-Ji and
erected a memorial stone, 力田遺愛碑 Ryokudeniai no hi.



Later in the Meiji period, the fifth hydroelectric power plant in Japan was built here.
- reference source : kanto/nouson/sekkei/kokuei... -

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多野郡 Tano district 上野村 Ueno

A hunter had been bewitched by a Tengu and made grappling with the root of a tree the whole night.
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Mount Hotakayama 武尊山 is a place where the Tengu live and where the Shugendo priests have a training area.
There are sanctuaries for 大天狗、小天狗の祠 the Big and Small Tengu, a 天狗屋根 Tengu Yane and a Tengu-Iwa.
. Tenguiwa, Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 "Tengu rock" - Photo - .





............................................................................... Iwate 岩手県 　
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岩手町 Iwate city

If the Tengu comes to sit on the Tengu-Iwa and hit his drum, there will be fine weather in the coming year.

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東磐井郡 Higashi-Iwai district 大東村 Daito son 京津畑集落 Kyotsuhata


source snd photos : akarin-yama.at.webry.info...

On 天狗岩山 Mount Tenguiwayama (772 m)
there lived a Tengu. When the Tengu died, the mountain got its name.
On its top is a huge boulder. If it falls down one day, it will be back in its position the next morning.
The mountain is used as farmland up to about 720 m.

toraneko 虎猫 tabby
At a nunnery in Kyotsuhata there lived a tabby cat loved by all. The cat even got アンズキ飯 rice with auspicious red beans. When the cat died, they put some of this rice in the coffin and carried it to Mount Tenguiwa. The nuns begun to chant
虎や虎や、南無虎や、アンズキ飯の御徳や
Dear Tabby, Oh, Dear Tabby, It is all by virtue of the read beans rice.




............................................................................... Kagawa 香川県 　
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小豆郡 Shozu district

. Tengu no kamikakushi 天狗と神かくし kidnapped, abduction .





............................................................................... Kanagawa 神奈川県 　

Tengu Ishi 天狗石 Tengu Stone
A child that had been missing for a while was heard crying on the mountain on the other side of the valley.
It must have been abducted by a Tengu. On the mountain near 舟原 Funabara there is a Tengu Ishi.

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Tengu no hana-tsuki iwa 天狗の鼻突き岩 Hanatsuki Rock of Tengu, Rock with Tengu nose
Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1107


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It has a small hole where the Tengu 伯耆坊 Hokibo once stuck his nose in.





............................................................................... Kochi 高知県　
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土佐山 Tosayama

Once upon a time, a man had gotten secret teachings from a Tengu and could perform various rituals and spells.
At a festival, he exchanged questions and answers with a Tengu for a long time, but the other villagers could not hear or see a thing. Later they named the spot Tengu-Iwa and came to celebrate there once a year.




............................................................................... Kyoto 京都府 　
京丹波町 Kyo-Tanba

Once upon a very long time, the Tengu frequently came to take a rest on the Tenguiwa.




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本吉郡 Motoyoshi district 南三陸町 Minamisanriku

Once upon a time, a Tengu had come all the way from 岩木山 Mount Iwakisan in Aomori, but by mistake he hurt his eye at the 杉 pine tree. The Tengu cut down the tree and placed a huge stone in its place, this is now the Tenguishi, Tengu Ishi 天狗石 Tengo stone.




............................................................................... Nagano 長野県　

Nobutaroo 信太郎 Nobutaro
Once Nobutaro went with a friend to 有明山 Mount Ariakeyama. When they tried to jump over the Tenguiwa, their bodies became an enormous in size and they jumped over 馬羅尾谷 Baraodani valley and disappeared.
Nobutaro's father 久作 Kyusaku, who had lost his only son, went everywhere to look for him. He could not find him and had to work in the fields all alone from that time on.
He build a small sanctuary for Nobutaro, 信の宮 Nobu no Miya.


有明山 Mount Ariakeyama (2268m).
Ariakeyama is also called Shino Fuji 信濃富士 Mount Fuji of the Shino region.

. Ariakeyama 有明山 Ariakesan, Mount Ariake .


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飯山市 Iiyama

On top of 高社山 Mount Koshasan (1,352 m) there is a 天狗岩 Tengu Iwa.

Tenguiwayama 天狗岩山 (1,070 m)

Locates in the Eastern part of the mountain range, this peak is seldom climbed by mountaineers.
There are a few waterfalls on the way up.
山頂にはかなり古い年代の自然石石碑と山頂標板があるだけで、 展望も西方が僅かに開けているだけです。地形図には山名がありませんが、滝ノ沢川の源頭と言うことから地元では呼んでいます。
地形図にもその名が記されている天狗岩山ですが、長野県に数多くある天狗(天狗山・天狗岳他)と名のつく山で、登山道がないのは この天狗岩山だけかも知れません。
- reference source : naganoken.jp/mount/hokushin/shiga-w/tenguiwa... -

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北佐久郡 Kita-Saku district 立科町 Tateshina

Many Tengu came together at the top of this boulder. On orders of the deity 立科明神 Tateshina Myojin to figure out the 善悪 good and evil in this world.

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Suwa, 上諏訪町 Kami-Suwa machi

Tengu Ishi 天狗石 Tengu Stone
In 大和 Yamato at Kami-Suwa there is a Tengu Stone. They say it looks just like a Tengu face, hence the name.
Others say once a Tengu had come down here to take a rest.





............................................................................... Okayama 岡山県　
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鏡野町 Kagamino


source and more photos : geocities.jp/komaithi/b/ctenguiwa...
鏡野町上斎原天狗岩 Kagamino Kamisaibara 1,196 m high


source and more photos : sanjyuunin-kagaminotyou...

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苫田郡 Tomata district 富村 Tomison

Tenguiwa, Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 Tengu Iwa boulder
The Tengu from 大山 Mount Daisen sometimes comes here to rest his wings. In winter people can here a strange sound of flapping wings and there will be snow the next day.
There is also the phenomenon of
. Tengu-daoshi, Tengu daoshi 天狗倒し "Tengu knocking down trees" .





............................................................................... Saitama 埼玉県　
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奥秩父 Oku-Chichibu

. Tenguiwa, Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 "Tengu boulder" .
and the Tengu from 倉尾村 Kurao and 小鹿野町 Ogano
There was a Tengu Boulder near the waterfall 七代の滝 Nanayo no Taki, where a Tengu lived. Once a priest from the nearby temple used it to pee.
If the visitors in his temple wanted to eat Tofu from Tokoy, the Tengu went off to fetch it in no time.

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Kokushidake no Tengu-Iwa 国師岳の天狗岩 Tengu Rock, Tengu Boulder
Mount Kokushidake is 2591 m high.






............................................................................... Shiga 滋賀県　
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伊香郡 Ina district 余呉町 Yogo

In a place called 平洞 Hedo in the middle of the mountain there is a matsu 松 pine tree, where the Tengu comes to rest.
There is also a Tengu-Iwa nearby.

. Tengu to matsu 天狗と松 Legends about the Tengu pine .




............................................................................... Shizuoka 静岡県　
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榛原郡 Haibara district 本川根町 Honkawane



Tenguishiyama 天狗石山Mount Tenguishiyama 1,366 m
If there is fog on Mount Tenguishi, it is going to rain

- There are other mountains with this name in Japan.

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浜松市 Hamamatsu 三ケ日町 Mikkabi

There is a Tengu-Iwa where a Tengu lives and parents tell their children, if they do not behave, the Tengu will come and get them.
If you see the Tengu, put your zoori 草履 straw sandals on your head to hide!

. waraji - zoori 草鞋- 履 と伝説 Legends about straw sandals .

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庵原郡 Ihara 両河内村 Ryogochi

A man was making charcoal near the Tengu-Iwa. Suddenly he heard a loud noise, like flutes and drums for a festival. But he could not see anybody.
This was the doing of the local Tengu.




............................................................................... Tokushima 徳島県 　
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海部郡 Ama district 宍喰町 Shishikui

At the Tengu-Iwa there are imprints of the geta 下駄 wooden clogs of the Tengu and the hooves of his horse.
Once at New Year an old lady living nearby heard the sound of drums and festival bells and became so afraid, she shut all the doors and windows of her home.

. geta 下駄　ashida 足駄 Geta wooden clogs and legends .





............................................................................... Tokyo 東京都　

琴平神社の天狗岩 Kotohira Jinja, Tengu-Iwa



東京都あきる野市五日市 / Itsukaichi, Akiruno, Tokyo
- reference source : blog.goo.ne.jp/ruribo0209... photos -




............................................................................... Tottori 鳥取県　
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岩美郡 Iwami district

Once a man faced a financial problem near a place called Zenibatake ゼニバタケ / 銭畑 "Field of Zeni coins" in front of the Tengu-Iwa.
Suddenly a Tengu appeared and spread a lot of zeni out for him.

. zeni, kozeni 銭、小銭 coins of Edo .

. Tengu to zeni 天狗と銭 Legends about Tengu and coins .




............................................................................... Yamagata 山形県　
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Tengu Ishi 天狗石 Tengu Stone

On the 10th day of the first lunar month, many Tengu gather at Mount Tengusumotoriyama to have a contest.
There is a mountain called 二ッ石山 Futatsuishiyama "Mountain with two stones", where once two 天狗石 Tengu-Ishi had been.



. Tengu sumootori yama　天狗角力取山 Tengusumotoriyama
Mountain where Tengu practise Sumo wrestling .

and

Mt. Tenguishi, Ogure, Kitahiroshima, Yamagata District, Hiroshima Prefecture





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みなべ町 Manabe

In 名之内 Myonouchi there are two rocks called Tengu-Iwa. The Tengu come here to rest.


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. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .

. Tengupedia - 天狗ペディア　- Tengu 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 .

- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan -

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