Ryuto Dragon Lantern legend

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ryuutoo 龍燈 / 龍灯 / 竜灯 と伝説 Legends about Ryuto, "Dragon Lantern"

A phenomenon at the Ariakekai sea in Kagoshima, Kyushu, in the evening hours.
It is also seen in other parts of Japan as a light that the Dragon God sends out to honor the deities of Shinto and Buddhism in Japan.


source :　龍燈、龍灯、竜灯- wikipedia


. shinka 神火と伝説 Legends about　"divine fire" .
shinka 神火 / シンカ "fire of the gods", "light of the gods"
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. hitodama 人魂 / 人玉 spirit of a dead person, "soul flame" .
tamabi 魂火 fireball of a soul, human fireball


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. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 .

五月雨や龍燈あぐる番太郎
samidare ya ryuutoo aguru Bantaroo

samidare rain -
the "Dragon Lantern" shines
from the flood warden's hut


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

Masaki 玉松山金蓮寺 Konren-Ji

ryuutoo Yakushi 龍灯薬師 Yakushi of the Dragon Lantern

Once upon a time
the fishermen of Masaki went out to the sea for fishing, when the weather suddenly turned bad. They tried to get back to land as fast as they could, but the strong wind and currents drifted the boat further out to sea. The fishermen rowed the boat with all their might, but eventually lost all their strength and just sang the Amida prayer:
「南無阿弥陀仏。南無阿弥陀仏。」 Namu Amida Butsu, Namu Amida Butsu.

Suddenly they saw a light on the horizon, and then one more, and one more. They rowed the boat toward that light in hope for help. The three lights kept flickering as if they wanted to encourage the fishermen to do their best. This light came, in fact, from a pine tree in the compound of the temple.


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ryuutoo no matsu 龍灯のマツ the Dragon Lamp Pine

The fishermen rowed faster and faster to reach this light and finally came to the beach.
"Thanks to the Buddha from temple Konren-Ji. Let us give thanks and pray!"
The fishermen stood in front of the pine and looked up to see the light again, but now all was dark.

"This must have been a dragon dancing and thus bringing light to the sea of Masaki!"

Eventually years later in a storm this pine tree broke down, but before it died, the fishermen took a branch and planted it anew. And to their surprize the new tree had three main stems. Thus they understood that this pine tree was the dancing dragon.
The tree we can see now is a much later generation.

. Iyo 12 Yakushi Temples, Shikoku 伊予十二薬師霊場 .




.................................................................................... Fukui 福井県

. Eboshiiwa 烏帽子岩 Eboshi Rock at 天王村 Tenno village .

. Saint Zenkai 禅海上人 coming on a turtle .

. tamabi 魂火 soul fire at 敦賀 Tsuruga .





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

In 茨城町 Ibaraki village
Once there was a Dragon Light. Since this was the place where the Dragon rested, people built a temple hall and venerated 弁天様 Benten there.




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

One of the seven wonders of Sanuki 讃岐の七不思議:

At 白鳥村 Shirotorimura, sometimes a Dragon Light can be seen, and there is a pine tree named after it.
龍頭の松 (竜燈の松) Ryuto no Matsu.



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

ryuutooboku 龍灯木 / 龍灯樹 "Dragon Light Tree"

At 浦賀町 Uraga, at the temple 信誠寺 Shinjo-Ji there is a stone memorial for a this tree.
Once upon a time there a large tree had grown there and every night a light shone from its top to show the way to the fishermen. People think it was a dragon from the see who had come to rest there.


.................................................................................... Miyagi 宮城県

At 石巻市 Ishinomaki there is a small peninsula called 三石崎 Mitsuishi Misaki, where three huge boulders are located. The wooden statue of Kannon with Eleven Faces was drifted ashore there at 給分浜 Kyobunhama and for many years a Dragon Light was seen there.


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.................................................................................... Tokyo 東京
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葛飾区　Katsushika ward

. Katsushika village 木下川浄光寺 .

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Kōtō 江東区 Koto ward, "East River"

. Ryuto and Kobo Daishi .


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Tengubi Tengu no Hi Fire

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Tengubi 天狗火 - a Yokai / Tengu no hi 天狗の火 Tengu fire

. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .
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- Tengubi called 松明丸 Taimatsu Maru
鳥山石燕 Toriyama Sekien 『百器徒然袋』 Hyakki tsurezurebukuro

Tengu no gyoroo 天狗の漁撈 Tengu no gyoro, Tengu fishing

The Tengubi Yokai appears near or over water.

. Hinotama 天狗と火の玉伝説 Legends about Tengu and fire balls .

. kaki 火気 と伝説 Legends about fire .
hoshi 星 stars falling from the sky


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Tengubi 天狗火

APPEARANCE:
Tengubi is a fireball phenomenon seen near rivers in Aichi, Shizuoka, Yamanashi, and Kanagawa Prefectures. It appears as one or more (up to several hundred) reddish flames which float about in the sky. These supernatural fires are said to be created by tengu.

BEHAVIOR:
Tengubi descends at night from the mountains to the rivers. Often it starts as a small number of fireballs which split into hundreds of smaller flames. These flames hover above the water for some time, as if dancing. Afterwards, they return to the mountains.

INTERACTIONS:
In most cases, humans who witness tengubi invariably meet with disaster—usually in the form of a serious illness contracted shortly after the encounter. Because of this, locals who lives in areas where tengubi is common greatly fear this phenomenon. If a local happens to see a tengubi, they will immediately drop prone and hide. Oftentimes they will cover their heads with their shoes or sandals.
Occasionally, tengubi can he helpful to humans. During times of drought, it was common for rice farmers to secretly steal water from their neighbors by redirecting water from the canals into their own fields during the night. This caused a great deal of conflict among the people involved. However, when tengubi appeared above the canals, would-be thieves were thwarted—either out of guilty consciences or because the light from the tengubi made it impossible to sneak around.

ORIGIN:
Tengubi is created by kawa tengu—”river tengu” who prefer the riversides over the deep mountain valleys where tengu normally live. It is used by these tengu to catch fish at night. For this reason it is also known as tengu no gyorō (“tengu fishing”).
Toriyama Sekien
included this phenomenon in his book Hyakki tsurezure bukuro under the name taimatsu maru (taimatsu meaning “torch,” and maru being a popular suffix for boys’ names). He described it not as a tool for tengu to help with fishing, but as a way for them to hinder and interfere with the religious practices of ascetic monks.

LEGENDS:
Long ago, tengubi was frequently seen in the villages of Kasugai City, Aichi Prefecture. One night, a villager was caught out in the mountains in a sudden thunderstorm. It was cold, and too dark to find his way back home, so he took shelter under a tree and shivered. Before long, mysterious fires began appearing around him. Not only did they warm his chilled body up, but they provided enough light for him to find the road and make it safely back to his village.
It was a common superstition in that village not to go outside of your home on nights when tengubi appeared. If you did, it was said that you would be spirited away into the mountains. One night a particularly foolhardy young man defied the superstition. He walked out of his house, faced the tengubi, and called out, “If you can take me, come and get me!” Suddenly, a large black shape appeared out of nowhere and grabbed the young man. It picked him up and flew away into the mountains. The young man was never seen again.
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松明丸 　Taimatsumaru by Shota Kotake
Taimatsumaru is a Japanese Yokai monster folklore illustrated in a book "Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro" written by Sekien Toriyama in 1784.
Teimatsumaru is a kind of Tengubi fire that Tengu creates. It look like a Raptores in fire. It appears in deep forest. It disturbs training monks in the mountain.


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仏道修行を妨げる妖怪とされる。

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............................................................................... Aichi 愛知県　
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岡崎市 Okazaki city

tengu no hi 天狗の火 Tengu fire
If people happen to see a "Tengu fire", they throw their geta 下駄 wooden sandals or zoori 草履 straw sandals to make it go away.



............................................................................... Ishikawa 石川県　
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石川郡 Ishikawa district 白峰村 Shiramine mura

tengu no hi 天狗の火 Tengu fire
If a child plays with fire, a Tengu will find out and then put the whole house on fire. Such a fire, caused by a Tengu, can not be extinguished.
Such a fire can spread in any direction, unrelated to the flow of wind. This is called
天狗の火鳥が歩く A Tengu firebird is walking.

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七尾市 Nanao city

tengu no hi 天狗の火 Tengu fire / kumo no hi 蜘蛛の火 spider fire
If people see a red fire on the open sea, this is a caused by a Tengu.
If they see a smaller, bluish fire, this is caused by s spider.

. kumo 蜘蛛と伝説 Legends about spiders / Spinnen .




............................................................................... Shizuoka 静岡県　

If a fisherman sees a Tengubi and calls "Oi, oi オイオイ come here, come here!" the ball of fire will come closer.

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nana fushigi 遠江 七不思議 One of the seven wonders of Totomi :

tengu no hi 天狗の火 Tengu fire
Tengu no Hi as a messenger of 秋葉山 Mount Akibayama and Mount 光明山 Komyosan.

. 秋葉山 Akibayama, Akiba Yama, a Tengu Mountain .
光明山古墳 Komyosan Kofum Tumulus Mound
浜松市中区元城町103-2

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磐田郡 Iwata district 水窪町 Misakubo

tengubi 天狗火 Tengu fire
In the summer of 1970, a man saw a Tengu fire. It looked like 20 or 30 lampions hanging over the mountain ridge and seemed to climb upwards all the time.
There was no sound of feet walking or people talking.

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磐田郡 Iwata district 佐久間町 Sakuma

tengubi 天狗火 Tengu fire
It is often seen on the mountain ridges, like blinking lanterns.
Often seen on the pass between 佐久間町の草木と西浦の間 Kusaki village and Nishiura village.



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

tengubi 天狗火 Tengu fire
Tengubi is an expression of the supernatural power of a Tengu.

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Tengu dance during a fire festival




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kumo 蜘蛛と伝説 Legends about spiders / Spinnen

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kumobi 蜘蛛火, lit. "spider fire"

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Tsukioka Kōgyo 月岡耕漁 Tsukioka Kogyo (1869-1927)

. tsuchigumo 土蜘蛛 earth spider, ground spider - Yokai .



Tsuchigumo zooshi 土蜘蛛草紙　Tsuchigumo scroll of the Heian period


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oogumo 大蜘蛛（おおぐも）Ogumo, the Big Spider



『曽呂利物語』より「足高蜘の変化の事」
寛文時代の奇談集『曽呂利物語』には「足高蜘の変化の事」と題し、ある山野に住む男のもとに夜、大蜘蛛が60歳ほどの老婆に化け、髪を振り乱して襲いかかり、男に刀で足を斬り落とされたという話がある。
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............................................................................... Ishikawa 石川県
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七尾市 Nanao city

. tengu no hi 天狗の火 Tengu fire / kumo no hi 蜘蛛の火 spider fire .



............................................................................... Miyazaki 宮崎県
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飫肥 Obi city

. spider at the deathbed .




............................................................................... Niigata 新潟県
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越後 Echigo

People say that centipedes and spiders are killed by putting spittle on them.



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05 鰻 蜘蛛 (00) unagi eel and spider

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kiji キジ / 雉と伝説 Legends about pheasants - Fasan

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. kiji 雉 pheasant - kigo and haiku .
kiji no hororo　雉のほろろ hollering of the pheasant
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yakeno no kigisu yoru no tsuru 焼け野の雉子 夜の鶴
pheasant in a burning field, crane in the evening
a mother's heart is always with her children.

Legend knows that a pheasant mother will run back and save her chicks if she discovers the fields around her nest are burning.


. Momotaro 桃太郎 and his pheasant friend .


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. pheasant predicting an earthquake .
In the 幡多郡 Hata district, if a pheasant calls out very loud, there will be an earthquake.



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

. Hachimen Daioo 八面大王 Great King with Eight Faces .


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kamo 鴨と伝説 Legends about ducks

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. kamo 鴨 duck kigo and haiku - Ente .
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. Hidari Jingoroo 左甚五郎 Hidari Jingoro .
A tale about a kamo 鴨 duck carved by the carpenter Jingoro at the temple 東福寺 Tofuku-Ji in 流山市, Chiba.

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かもとりごんべえという鉄砲撃ちが、一度に百羽のカモを捕まえようと、冬の氷のはった池に行って、凍り付いたカモ一羽一羽に縄を掛けていった。そうして九十九羽のカモを生け捕りにしたが、朝になって太陽が出ると、凍ったカモが目を覚まして一斉に空に飛び立った。

ごんべえは必死につかまっていたが、やがて力尽きてまっさかさまに落ちてしまう。そこは粟畑で、しばらくそこで働くことになった。しかしある日、大きな実がなっている粟の茎に鎌を入れたところ、茎が勢いよく跳ねて、ごんべえをふっとばしてしまった。畑を越え、山を越え、落ちたところは見知らぬ町だった。

しばらく町の傘屋で働くことになったごんべえは、ある日、傘を庭に干している時に吹いてきた突風に煽られて傘ごと飛ばされてしまった。ごんべえが風に舞っていると、特別大きな風が吹いて傘が木っ端微塵になってしまい、池の中に落ちた。

そこはごんべえが住んでいた裏山の池だった。池から出てきたごんべえはももひきの中にどじょうが百匹入っているのに気がつき大喜びした。
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Kamotori Gonbei かもとりごんべえ Gonbei the Duck Hunter


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............................................................................... Okayama 岡山県
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北房町 Hokubo // 真庭郡 Maniwa district

. Tengu-daoshi 天狗倒し "Tengu knocking down trees" .
was a flock of ducks !

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. Legends about Kobo Daishi Kukai - 弘法大師　空海 - 伝説 .

. Japanese legends and tales 伝説　民話　昔話 - Introduction .

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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 .
- Introduction -

. 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 .




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

- - - - - Once upon a time,
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" .


- reference source : geocities.jp/soueik3_31/kuroganetyoudensetu... -
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.
- reference source : toki.moo.jp/merumaga/noinakami... -


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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- - - 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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