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sugi no ki 杉の木と伝説 Legends about the cedar tree

. sugi no ki 杉の木 cedar tree, Cryptomeria japonica .
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Yakusugi 屋久杉 Cedar from Yakushima


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. Tengu, sugi 天狗と杉と伝説
Legends about Tengu Goblins and Cedar trees .


. Oosugi Jinja 大杉神社 Osugi Shrine, Ibaraki .
- Osugi Daimyojin 大杉大明神



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......................................................................................... Fukushima 福島県
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福島市 Fukushima city 杉妻町 Sugitsuma town

. The cedar tree at Temple 西光寺 Saiko-Ji .

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Fukushima いわき市 Iwaki city 四倉町 Yotsukura town // 鎮守の杉
. chinju no sugi 鎮守の杉 cedar tree of 鎮守様 the Chinju Sama guardian deity .




......................................................................................... 群馬県 Gunma
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前橋市 Maebashi city 亀里町 Kamesato town

. otooka no yome-iri オトウカの嫁取り Otoka the fox gets a bride .




......................................................................................... Iwate　岩手県
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軽米町 Karumai town

. sugi no tatari 杉の祟り curse of the Japanese cedar tree .




......................................................................................... Kochi 高知県
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長岡郡 Nagaoka district 西豊永村 Nishi-Toyonaga

. tsue 杖 walking staff of Gyoki Bosatsu .




......................................................................................... Kyoto　京都



noroi no sugi 呪いの杉 pine to curse a person
. Shrine Jishu Jinja 地主神社 .
in the back of Kiyomizu Temple

. wara ningyoo 藁人形 straw dolls for curses .




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

. the cedar tree in the compound of 八坂神社 Yasaka Shrine .

Mida no sugi 弥陀の杉 Cedar of Amida
- also called
Darumasugi 達磨杉 / だるま杉


平沢弥陀の杉 Hirasawa no Mida no Sugi

In 蔵王町 Zao there was an 阿弥陀堂 Amida Hall, now abolished, and on the bottom of its hill there was a huge tree. People come here to pray for becoming pregnant and having an easy birth.

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気仙沼市 Kesennuma

羽田神社 Hada Jinja
In front of the shrine there are two huge cedar trees facing each other.
They are 太郎坊の杉 Tarobo-no-sugi and Jirobo-no-sugi 次郎坊の杉.
Tarobo-sugi has a diameter of almost 7 meters.




......................................................................................... Niigata 新潟県
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新津市 Niitsu city

. kaminari sugi 雷杉 thunder cedar .
There are various cedar trees with this name in Japan.
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......................................................................................... Shiga 滋賀県
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水口町 Minakuchi

. 八坂神社 Yasaka Jinja and Ryuu-ga-mori 竜ヶ森 The Dragon Forest. .




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荒川区 Arakawa ward

. arasoi sugi 争い杉 dispute about a cedar tree .

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神津島 Kozushima island

. Yamanokami and 大天狗・小天狗 Big and Small Tengu .




......................................................................................... Yamagata 山形県
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最上郡 Mogami district 金山町 Kaneyama

. Fudo Sama no Sugi no Ki 不動様の杉の木 cedar tree of Fudo Myo-o .

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Shōnai 庄内 Shonai

ryuu no hone 龍の骨 bones of a dragon
In Shonai town, in the Meiji period there was a 巨杉 huge cedar tree between the waterfall and the 不動堂 Fudo Hall, but during a strike of lightning it burned down. In its ashes there where almost two buckets full of white bones. The local gossip says these were the bones of a dragon who had lived below the tree.


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77 杉の木 to collect
564 杉 to collect

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doo, dō 銅 と伝説 Legends about copper - Kupfer - Do

. Besshi dōzan 別子銅山 The Besshi copper mine .
in Niihama, Ehime Prefecture.


source : kobelco 銅の歴史と特長


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doozoo 銅像 Dozo, copper statue
doosen 銅錢 Dosen, copper coin
seidoo 青銅 Seido, bronze


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akaki 閼伽器
良弁僧正の弟子実忠和尚が、難波の浦を通った時、閼伽器が波に浮かんできた。取ってみた所、十一面観音像が閼伽器に乗っておられた。その丈7寸の銅像であったが、人の肌のように暖かかったという。聖武天皇がその話を聞き、尊んで東大寺に安置させた。

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doozoo 銅像
何の像かもわからない、銅像があった。時々うなり声を上げるので、家の者は驚いた。銅印を作るために譲ったところ、鋳直される内に少なくなってしまった。家の者はそれを聞いて気の毒に思い、全員が病気になった。

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honetsugi 骨つぎ bone setting
腰の骨が折れた雀に、銅を削って食わせると、やがて治って飛んでいった。
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. bone setting with vinegar .

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koku-un 黒雲，haku-un 白雲 - black cloud, white cloud
治承四年（１１８０）に、山城国東山にある法観禅寺の仏舎利塔（八坂塔）が雷によって焼かれた。その跡を黒雲が覆い、七日後にようやく散じた。ある威徳な上人が言うには、その昔祇園精舎が燃えた時に、その跡を七日間白雲が覆った事もあったという。その地面を掘ったら十一面観音銅像が出土したが、この時は聖徳太子の親書が入った箱が出土した。


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......................................................................................... Akita 秋田県
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阿仁合村 Aniai mura

. gingitsune 銀狐 the Silver Fox .
and 阿仁銅山 the Ani Dozan copper mine



......................................................................................... Hyogo 兵庫県
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加東郡 Kato district

doozen 銅銭 copper coins
あるところに、労咳で全員が途絶えた豪家があり、化物屋敷という噂が広まった。そこにひとりの六部が泊っていると、丑満頃に白、黄、黒の絵衣を着た3人の僧が入ってきて、寝ている周りを3回まわり、訳のわからない経を唱えて帰っていった。後をつけると馬小屋で消えたので調べると、黄金、白銀、銅錢が埋めてあった。この六部が三井家の祖先であったともいわれている。




......................................................................................... Miyagi 宮城県
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Sendai city, 青葉区 Aoba ward

tobizeni 飛び銭
元禄２（1689）年の夏頃、大町刑部頼利の屋敷によく小石が飛び込んできた。子供の悪戯と思っているうちに今度は銅銭が２つ、３つ、そのうち５つ、６つと投げ込まれ、やがて合計百数十枚にもなったという。昔はこれを飛び銭と言い、諸国に見られた。後に子孫の大町将監がその飛び銭を５代吉村公にお見せしたという。





......................................................................................... Shiga 滋賀県

mukade 百足
赤堀藤太秀郷という人が、勢田の橋辺りで、百足山の百足が夜な夜な竜宮の竜女の子をとろうとするのを射落とした。そのお礼に竜宮からわっぱ（童）がくびり俵や赤銅の鍋を届けにきた。

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大津市 Otsu city

. Tawara Tota, Fujiwara no Hidesato, killing the Mukade 俵藤太秀郷 .




......................................................................................... Shimane 島根県
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鹿足郡 日原村

oni 鬼 demon
節分の晩には出雲に鬼が来るので、出雲の神様は弓を持って青銅の馬に乗り鬼を追って歩く。この日は出雲の人は家を締め切り、決して外を覗いて見ない。昔、お婆さんが節穴から覗いていたら、神様が弓でその目を射った。




......................................................................................... Tochigi 栃木県
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宇都宮市 Utsunomiya city

doozoo no yubi 銅像の指
中学校のプールには銅像が３体ある。そのうちの１体の銅像の指は、設置工事の時は確かに５本だったのに、今では指が６本ある。

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63 to collect (09)
06 青銅 bronze
銅像 / 赤銅 - OK

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和銅 Wadō era name, from January 708 through September 715.

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daikon radish legends

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daikon 大根 と伝説 Legends about radish

. Radish, Reddish, daikon 大根　Raphanus sativas .
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. Daikoku Ten 大黒天 Mahakara Ten .
often depicted with a radish.


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. i no hi matsuri 亥の日祭 festival on the day of the boar .
On this day people are not allowed to go to the fields to pick daikon 大根 large radish.



......................................................................................... Aichi 愛知県

. Tenteko Matsuri テンテコ祭 Tenteko festival .
and the use of vinegar




......................................................................................... Tochigi 栃木県
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鹿沼市 Kanuma city

. festival dish named okaimo オカイモ Okaimo .


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udonge Udumbara legends

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udonge 優曇華 / ウドンゲ と伝説 Legends about Udonge flowers
udonge no hana 優曇華の花

This legendary flower is said to flower once in 3000 years and to see its flowers is very special.


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In Buddhism, udumbara (Pali, Sanskrit) refers to the tree, flower and fruit of the Ficus racemosa (syn. Ficus glomerata). In Buddhist literature, this tree or its fruit may carry the connotation of rarity and parasitism. It is also mentioned in Vedic texts as the source of wood for rituals and amulets.
The udumbara is also used to refer to the flower of the blue lotus (Nymphaea caerulea Sav.).
The Japanese word udonge (優曇華)
was used by Dōgen to refer to the flower of the udumbara tree in chapter 68 of the Shōbōgenzō ("Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma"). Dōgen places the context of the udonge flower in the Flower Sermon given by Gautama Buddha on Vulture Peak. The udonge flower may be symbolic of mind to mind transmission between the teacher and the student, in this case, Gautama Buddha and Mahakasyapa.
Udonge is also used to refer to the eggs of the lacewing insect.
The eggs are laid in a pattern similar to a flower, and its shape is used for divination in Asian fortune-telling.
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. Udonge 優曇華 the udumbara flower .
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Magnolia delavayi　/ 優曇華（ウドンゲ）はモクレン科モクレン属の常緑高木である。


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......................................................................................... Chiba 千葉県
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usuba kageroo ウスバカゲロウ Myrmeleontidae ephemera, lacewing

If this Ephemera lays its eggs near the top of the sliding door, people call it "Udonge".
This is an auspicious omen for the home.



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北区 Kita ward

. shi no yochoo 死の予兆 omens of death .
If the birds sing in a long, sad voice, if the blossoms of udonge 優曇華 cluster fig tree begin to bloom in the garden, if a person gets black warts and spots on the skin (死黒子) this is all an omen of approaching death.

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右京区 Ukyo ward

In 宇津村 Utsumura village they say if someone sees the flowers of Udonge, the family will become poor.



......................................................................................... Miyazaki 宮崎県

If the Udonge shows its flowers, there will be misfortune.
If someone sees the flowers of Udonge in a dream, he will soon die.




......................................................................................... Nara 奈良県
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菟田野町 Utano town

The Udonge flower is a forebode of death.




......................................................................................... Osaka 大阪府
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箕面市 Mino, Minoh city / 茨木市 Ibaraki city

If the Udonge begins to flower, the home will have misfortune.
If the flowres begin to grow around a pillar in the 床柱 Tokonoma alcove, the family will perish.




......................................................................................... Tochigi 栃木県
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茂木町 Motegi town

If the Udonge shows its flowers, someone is going to die.

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宇都宮市 Utsunomiya city

If the Udonge has 白 white flowers, there will be theft.
If it has 黒 black flowers, someone will die.
If it has 赤 red flowres, it brings good luck.



......................................................................................... Wakayama 和歌山県
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日高郡 Hidaka district 由良町 Yura town

If someone is near death, the color of his face will fade and he might just barely be able to draw a breath.
Sometimes the 味噌 Miso paste will turn black, the 醤油 soy sauce will get rotten or the Udonge will show its flowers.



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

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sato sugar legends

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satoo 砂糖 と伝説 Sato - Legends about sugar - Zucker



. satoo 砂糖 Sato, sugar - Zucker .
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wasanbon 和三盆 wasambon, wasanbon toh, wasanbonto, wasanbon sugar from Shikoku


. satoo no michi シュガーロード（砂糖の道） sugar road .
The road between Nagasaki and Kokura (Ogura) 小倉, then on to Kyoto during the Edo period.


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......................................................................................... Akita 秋田県
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仙北郡 Senboku district

. Jizō - Jizo Bosatsu 地蔵菩薩 - ABC List .

hana name Jizo 鼻なめ地蔵 licking the nose of Jizo
In the Senboku district is a statue of Jizo. If children want to lick its nose, they can not reach it. Even if a tall child comes, it can not reach the nose, because the statue gets taller.
Sometimes grown-up people put kurozatō 黒砂糖 brown sugar on the nose and lick it.






......................................................................................... Aomori 青森県
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三戸郡 Sannohe district 南郷村 Nango mura village

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends - キツネ .
Around 1950, a man was walking home from 八戸 Hachinohe , eating brown sugar and sobamochi そばもち mochi cakes from buckwheat flower on his way. At the pine tree by the roadside he was always tricked by a fox called オバフトコロ Obafutokoro.
In olden times there used to be a prison at this place and the fox might be the wandering soul of someone.
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. Aomori Kaido 青森街道, the fox and brown sugar .



......................................................................................... Chiba 千葉県
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長生郡 Chosei district 長柄町 Nagara cho town

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends - キツネ .
At the end of the rice-planting season, a grandfather and a young man were walking in the evening and resting on a mountain road called ニイザカ Niizaka. Along came a young woman carrying a juubako 重箱 food box and gave them some sato mochi 砂糖餅 rice cakes made with sugar. They tasted so delicious, as if they had just been made.
The next morning they found black horse shit sticking to their teeth. Aaaa, they had been bewitched by a fox !


kurosatoo mochi 黒砂糖餅 Mochi made with brown sugar





......................................................................................... Fukushima 福島県
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耶麻郡 Yama district 高郷村 Takasato mura village

- folk belief
If a child falls ill, the mother makes sugared sweets with soy beans as an offering for 地蔵 Jizo Bosatsu.
After the offering the sweets are given to the child and the illness will heal very fast.





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. ushi to densetsu 牛と伝説 Legends about ox, bull, cow . . .
To the West of 崇徳天皇の山 the Mountain related to Sutoku Tenno (1119 - 1164) there lived a man named 庄村武八 Masamura Buhachi. Once he had loaded sugar barrels on his bull to carry to the market, when the bull suddenly said:
"Before loading me with sugar, you did not give me any fodder. This is too hard on me, so I will not go!"
Buhachi was very surprized and afrain and never loaded the bull with sugar again.





......................................................................................... Kagoshima 鹿児島県
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大島郡 Oshima district

. kenmun ケンムン / けんもん kenmon / hinotoragami ヒノトラガミ .
Kenmun is a kind of sea turtle Yokai, friend of Kappa san.
He often disturbes the makers of kurozato 黒砂糖 brown sugar.
He is afraid of tako 蛸 octopus.




......................................................................................... Kochi 高知県
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高知市 Kochi city

. yamachichi 山チチ / 山地乳 Yamachichi Yokai monster .
Once upon a time,
a 馬曳き pack horse leader met the Yamachichi on the last night of the year. The Yokai took away all things loaded on the horse, carrots, large radish, sugar and finally the horse itself.
That night the Yamachichi slept in the cooking kettle, so the man put a heavy stone on the lid and made fire below it. The Yamachichi asked for help, but he kept tending to the fire. When the voice from the kettle had stopped, he opened it and found its body all burned to black ashes.




......................................................................................... Niigata 新潟県

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends - キツネ .
There lived a fox in a hole near the temple, but one day it was gone.
Once grandmother met the wife of the priest and got some sugar from her. But the wife of the priest had been at a different place altogether. Most probably a fox had taken the shape of the woman and expressed his gratitude for former kindness by giving her some sugar.

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東蒲原郡 Higashi-Kanbara district 阿賀町 Aga city

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
A school boy was on his way home from 合川 Aikawa and had reached 三宝分 Sanpobun. He had been out buying carrots and sugar. At the pass his mother came to meet him, so he gave her the carrots and the sugar. The mother said "I have another errand to do, so you go home first!" When he came home his mother was there, so he had been tricked by a fox.
Next morning both walked the way again and found a carrot dropped by the roadside.




......................................................................................... Shimane 島根県
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出雲市 Izumo city 大塚町 Otsuka town

. Legends about nanten 南天 Nandina .
For detoxification, 5 or 6 of the red Nandina berries are crushed and eaten.
If a baby has been born, sugar can be put on Nandina leaves to prevent poison from enering the body.
nan ten ... symbolic for
nan o ten suru 難を転する
to turn bad luck into good luck, to turn difficulties to a good ending ...




......................................................................................... Shizuoka 静岡県
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御殿場市 Gotenba city

. fuurai neko フーライ猫 a wild cat .
Eating sugar to get rid of the bewitchment.



......................................................................................... Yamagata 山形県
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西村山郡 Nishi-Murayama district

. Kōbō Daishi Kūkai 弘法大師空海 Kobo Daishi Kukai Legends
If people make dango 団子 dumplings on the 23day of the 10th lunar month, they never use sugar.
In former times, Kukai had made kayu 粥 rice gruel on this day and burned himself.

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shio 塩 と伝説 Legends about salt


source : History of Japanese Salt

. shio 塩 salt, Salz .
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. Salty Sweets .
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Shio no michi 塩の道 The Salt Road 　
Chikuni Kaido 千国街道 From Niigata to Matsumoto in Nagano.

. Kanshinji 観心寺 Temple Kanshin-Ji - Osaka .
famous for hokuto no shio 北斗の塩 "salt of the big dipper"


. Meersalz - Die Geschichte des Salzes in Japan


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......................................................................................... Fukushima 福島県
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いわき市 Iwaki town 四倉町 Yotsukuramachi

. shinmei sama しんめいさま - Kumano Shinmei 熊野神明 .




......................................................................................... Hiroshima 広島県
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安佐郡 Asa district

. onibaba 鬼婆 the demon hag .




......................................................................................... Ishikawa 石川県
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白山市 Hakusan city

. niwatori no ashi ニワトリの足 legs of a rooster .




......................................................................................... Nagano 長野県
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下伊那 Shimoi district

. shio no i 塩の井 Shionoi, the Salt Well .




......................................................................................... Nagasaki 長崎県
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西海市 Saikai city 西彼町 Seihi town

. Ido no Kami 井戸の神 / Idogami 井戸神 Deity of the Well .
- offerings of salt



......................................................................................... Yamagata 山形県
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村山市 Murayama city

. ryuu, ryū 龍　竜　伝説　Ryu - dragon legends .
When the dragon, which lives on the banks of 最上川 river Mogamigawa, goes up to heaven, it will rain the next day.
When the local priest was giving a sermon, a woman showed up saying she came from the 龍宮 Dragon Palace. Thanks to the sermon she had attained enlightenment and had come to say thank you.
She brought some gifts: 1000 pieces of lumber, one shakuji 杓子 ladle and a robe with no trace of stitches.
If people scoop water from the river with this ladle, it will turn salty.


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15 塩　天狗
13 塩　山の神
11 塩　河童
06 塩辛 salty
04 塩　龍

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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




......................................................................................... Aomori 青森県
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.




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




......................................................................................... Shimane 島根県
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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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shooyu 醬油 / 醤油 と伝説 Legends about Shoyu Soy Sauce


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Utagawa Hiroshige III - Making Soy Sauce

. shooyu 醬油 Shoyu, soy sauce, Sojasauce .
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......................................................................................... Ehime 愛媛県

folk belief
On the birthday of the family head people should not make soy sauce or Miso.



......................................................................................... Fukui 福井県
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大飯郡 Ōi district 高浜町 Takahama town

. Kooboo Daishi 弘法大師 Kobo Daishi Kukai Legends .
お大師様 O-Daishi Sama
There is a rock with three holes, each has a different ingredient: 酢 vinegar, 酒 sake and 醤油 soy sauce. Kobo Daishi made them when he was here to train in Buddhism.
Another version tells of three large pots between the rocks. People could come and scoope as much vinegar, sake or soy sauce as they needed and they would never grow empty.
But one day a greedy man came and scooped too much, so the intredients turned to water. This was the punishment of Kobo Daishi.
Later the villagers begun to pray to Kobo Daishi on this spot.




......................................................................................... Ishikawa 石川県
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白山市 Hakusan city

. niwatori 鶏と伝説 Legends about the rooster, cock, chicken .
niwatori no ashi ニワトリの足 the legs of a rooster
Once upon a time, the young people of the village came together and thought about something delicious to cook. They stole one chicken and burried it in the open hearth while it was still alive. They put soy sauce and salt into its mouth and ate it. When they had finished their meal, they opened the door and went outside into the garden.
As they stood there, the legs of a huge rooster came down from the sky and turned the head of each of them around once . . . so they all died on the spot.




......................................................................................... Kanagawa 神奈川県
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戸塚区 Totsuka district

neko 猫 a cat
At the home of the soy sauce merchant, a tenugui 手拭 hand towel disappeared every night. The shop owner thought this was strange and found out that the cat of the family came to take it away. The cats of the neighbourhood met every night and danced and his cat had used the hand towel to cover her face


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bakeneko cats dancing in Edo




......................................................................................... Niigata 新潟県

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
Grandma had put some fish in her 弁当 Bento lunch box and went out to sell soy sauce. A fox trying to get the fish bewitched her to sell her soy sauce to a 松の木 pine tree. She thought the branches were the money and took it, then went to wash her legs in the river. A neighbour saw her, clapped her on the back and then she came to her senses.




......................................................................................... Okayama 岡山県
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勝山町 Katsuyama town

tsukimono つきもの bewitched / toobyoo とうびょう Tobyo
Tobyo is a small snake and can bewitch foxes, dogs and cats.
It is smaller than a fox, about the size of a rat. If a home gets bewitched they get rice and soy sauce and other things from the neighbours and become rich.





......................................................................................... Shizuoka 静岡県
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御殿場市 Gotenba city

fuurai neko フーライ猫 a wild cat
This cat can bewitch babies and can make a fever last longer. Driving out these kinds of cats people prepare a trap to catch it. The cat will then stop to call.
Bewitched people have to eat food prepared with boiled sugar and soy sauce to heal.




......................................................................................... Tochigi 栃木県
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鹿沼市 Kanuma city

okaimo オカイモ Okaimo
In the family of 柴田良夫 Shibata Yoshio they eat Okaimo for breakfast from the last day of the last lunar month till the third day of the first lunar month.
Okaimo is a dish of yatsugashira 八頭 / ヤツガシラ a kind of 里芋 Satoimo Taro potato, ninjin ニンジン carrots, goboo ゴボウ Gobo burdock and dried small fish flavored with soy sauce.
Once upon a time, a travelling priest asked for some taro 苧 Colocasia antiquorum potato but did not get it and the head of the family turned into a stone.
Since then they prepare Okaimo, Oka-Imo.
In the family of 上沢芳夫家 Uesawa Yoshio they prepare Okanimo オカンイモ and azuki meshi 小豆飯 auspicious rice with red soy beans.
Okanimo is made with chicken soup, ginko 銀杏 small cut gingko nuts, 大根 daikon radish, carrots, Gobo and onions. Finally Taro and soy sauce is added.
On the third day of the New Year this dish is offered to the Buddhist and Shinto Deities. After the offering it is put into cooked rice and eaten in the hope it might keep away the
疫病神 Yakubyogami Deity of Disease.

. Yakubyoogami 疫病神 Yakubyogami, Deity of Diseases .






......................................................................................... Tottori 鳥取県
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八頭郡 Yazu district 若櫻山田町 Wakasa Yamadamachi

. yamanba, yamauba 山姥 mountain hag .
Once an old woman built a hut in the mountains and begun to eat 蛇 snakes and 蛙 frogs. She used her white hair together with straw to make a robe. In Spring she collected mushrooms and warabi 蕨 fern to sell in the hamlet. She bought soy sauce and 味噌 Miso and then went back. The children were very afraid of her. If a child would not listen to its parents, they threatened saying: "We will ask Yamanba to come and get you!"

warabi, Pteridium aquilinum


......................................................................................... Wakayama 和歌山県
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日高郡 Hidaka district 由良町 Yura town

. udonge no hana 優曇華の花 Udumbara flowers and death .


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