. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
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su 酢 と伝説 Legends about vinegar - Essig
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. su 酢 , komezu, komesu 米酢 rice vinegar .
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honetsugi 骨つぎ bone setting
A medicine for broken bones: Take copper coins and soak them in vinegar, then grind them and drink the powder in 酒 Sake.
The copper powder will settle around the the bone and heal it.
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. Kappa 河童 the water goblin .
A Kappa is said to have 13 bones in his body. So for healing he needs 13 plasters with the powdered mixture of:
black powder and an egg white, merikenko メリケン粉 flour, vinegar and yanagi no ha 川柳の葉 the leaves of a willow tree.
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oobaku 黄柏 Obaku，Inuyama sanshoo 犬山椒
There was a family famous for bone setting.
They used the powder of Obaku and mountain pepper from Inuyama to make a plaster. The plaster if put on the place that pains most and the pain will soon be gone.
Obaku, Phellodendron amurense, commonly called the Amur cork tree
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. sanshoo 山椒 Sansho Mountain Pepper .
Japanese pepper, Japan Pepper; Sanshō; Zanthoxylum piperitum
......................................................................................... Aichi 愛知県
. Tenteko matsuri テンテコ祭 Tenteko festival .
The festival is said to have started in the Heian Period. Yaku-otoko (men of an unlucky age) wear a red costume and hang a daikon 大根 radish from their waist as a symbol of masculinity.
Later they rub the radish in vinegar and eat it.
at 魚島村 Uoshima village, Aichi
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野沢村 Nozawa village
. Oonyuudoo 大入道 O-Nyudo Monster .
At a place called アダノ沢 Adanozawa there lives a monster. They say it always transforms into O-Nyudo.
Once the priest of the local temple walked along Adanozawa. And indeed, the O-Nyudo turned up. He threw some vinegar at the huge monster and in no time it begun to shrink. It became so small he could easily grab it and punish it.
......................................................................................... Chiba 千葉県
- folk belief
If someone buys vinegar and on his way home has to pee by the wayside, the vinegar will lose its taste and turn to water.
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成田市 Narita city
. Atago Gongen Densetsu 愛宕権現 伝説 Legends about Atago Gongen .
The festival for Atago Gongen is on the 24th day of the first lunar month.
The Atago Deity dislikes the 24th day of every month, therefore people are not allowed to drink Sake or use vinegar or drink sweet 甘酒 Amazake.
......................................................................................... Fukui 福井県
. 三つの岩穴 a rock with three holes .
Kobo Daishi 弘法大師 provides 酢 vinegar, 酒 sake and 醤油 soy sauce.
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養父郡 Yabu district 八鹿町 Yokacho town
In the town of Yokacho on ootoshi 大歳 the last day of the old year they eat food with vinegar and riceballs with Miso paste to drive out Binbogami 貧乏神 the Deity of Poverty.
. Binbogami 貧乏神 legends about Bimbogami, Deity of Poverty .
......................................................................................... Kyoto 京都府
. ookami 狼 Okami, wolf legends .
Once upon a very long time there lived a wolf who loved very much to lick salt. Sometimes he came in the evening to lick the pee of villagers. He also liked all kinds of acid and hot stuff.
In the evening people would not go out to buy vinegar, fearing the wolf would come.
But now it has gone . . .
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伏見区 Fushimi ward
ine 稲 rice plants
In 1663, there lived a vinegar merchant named 酢屋与右衛門 Yoemon at 伏見の京橋 the Kyobashi bridge of Fushimi.
In his garden grew some ears of rice on wild reed plants. People thought this was strange.
......................................................................................... Osaka 大阪府
岸和田市 Kishiwada city
shooja 小蛇 small serpent
There was an honest man who walked past 取石池 Toriishi-Ike pond. A man came to him and asked to deliver a letter to a woman at 久米田池 Kumeda-Ike pond.
It was a special letter with a script by 弘法大師 Kobo Daishi. When the man came to the pond, he was taken to 竜宮 the Dragon Palace and stayed there for three days.
As a good-bye present, the small serpent princess of the palace gave him 酢壷 a pot of vinegar which would never dry up.
When he came back home he realized he had been away for three years.
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ryuuja / ryuuda 龍蛇 dragon snake
The daughter of the high priest of the Shinto shrine 水若酢神社 Mizuwakasu Jinja went into the pond and joined the Dragon Snake Ryuda as his wife.
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There are about 150 Shinto shrines in the Oki Islands . Of these, Mizuwakasu-jinja is one of the four most important, enshrining a deity that protects the sea around the islands.
Dancing, sumo and archery
The current building was built at the end of the 18th century in Oki-zukuri style, with a thatched roof. Although only used on special occassions, the sumo ring on the grounds is well maintained.
Every other year on May 3,
the shrine fills with people for the Reitaisai Matsuri, one of the three great festivals of the Oki Islands. You can witness kagura dancing, lion dancing, and horseback archery known as yabusame.
- Right next door to the shrine
is the local history museum, the Oki Kyodokan, housed in a lovely white wooden building that was once a town hall. There you can see exhibits that cover the history and folklore of the islands.
In the grounds behind the museum, you will find a lovely 150-year-old thatched farmhouse that you can enter and explore.
Also nearby is the Goka Soseikan, where displays and videos introduce the natural environment and many local traditions of the islands, such as bull sumo.
- 723 Kori, Okinoshima-cho, Oki-gun, Shimane-ken
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......................................................................................... Shizuoka 静岡県
mizukoshi ishi 水漉石 stone to strain water
Foreigners on their long sea travel sometime do not have enough drinking water. In that case they use a special stone to strain seawater to make it 清水 drinkable clear water.
Sake or vinegar strained with this stone also becomes clear water.
They say in the Izu province there is also this kind of stone.
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