Heian Period Japan

2020-03-20

hatsuka day 20 legends

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hatsuka 二十日と伝説 Legends about day 20 of a month

. hatsuka iwai 二十日祝い celebrating on January 20 .

January 20 is a special "New Years Day" (hatsuka shogatsu 二十日正月) in Japan.
The Samurai class took this as a special ritual and prepared special food for this day. The ladies of the house where allowed for the first time now to take the cover off the mirror and look at their faces. They also could eat the rice cakes that had been put as offerings before the mirror boxes (kyoodai 鏡台).

Officially this was the last day of New Years celebrations, where folks would cook rice with red soy beans (sekihan 赤飯) and eat the last New Year cakes to celebrate.

In the area of Kyoto and Osaka, the leftover bones of yellowtail (buri) offered during the New Year celebrations were cooked and eaten (New Year bones, hone shoogatsu　骨正月).

It was also the day when the God of Good Luck, Ebisu, had his first festival.

. hatsuka Ebisu 二十日戎 (はつかえびす) Ebisu on January 20 .
hatsuka Ebisu matsuri 二十日戎祭 Ebisu Ceremonies in Edo and the Kanto area

Asakusa Hatsuka Ebisu 浅草廿日戎 Festival in Asakusa

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hate no hatsuka 果ての二十日 the final day 20
An evil day, to avoid angering the Yamanokami山の神 Kami of the Mountains, people should not enter a mountain.
..... the 20th day of the 12th lunar month, the day when all Oni become free,
. Inozasa-O 猪笹王 Wild Boar became an Oni Demon .

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. Basho visiting Okamoto Taiso 岡本苔蘇 - .

During his stay at the Gourd Bamboo Hermitage, 松尾芭蕉 Matsuo Basho wrote the following hokku:

花を宿に始め終りや二十日ほど
hana no yado ni hajime owari ya hatsuka hodo

at this lodging with cherry blossoms
from beginning to end -
about twenty days

Basho enjoyed his time there just as long as the cherry blossoms were in full bloom.
Written in the spring of 1688 元禄元年春.

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hatsuka nezumi 二十日鼠 / 廿日鼠 / ハツカネズミ house mouse, white moues
family Mus
Its gestation period is roughly 20 days.

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Many legends and customs about day 20 are related to Yamanokami:
On these days there are various taboos for the farmers and forest workers.

. Yamanokami Legends from Ehime 愛媛県 .

. Yamanokmai Legends from Hiroshima 広島県 .

. Yamanokami Legends from Mie 三重県 .

. Yamanokami Legends from Saga 佐賀県 .

. Yamanokami and Tengu Legends from Toyama 富山県 .

. Yamanokami Legends from Yamaguchi 山口県 .

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There are various regional Ebisuko ceremony and festival groups on this day

. Ebisu-koo, Ebisukoo 恵比寿講 / 夷講 / エビス講 Ebisu Ko .

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甘楽郡 Kanra district

O-Ebisu san オエビスサン / オエベツさん Ebetsu san is venerated in the ceremony groups on
January and November 20.
Ebisu is a wealthy person who gets out to work early in the morning on day 20 of January and comes back late at night on Day 20 in November.
The morning of January 20 is called asa Ebisu 朝エビス Ebisu in the morning.
People prepare special food to see him off.
The evening of November 20 is called yuu Ebisu 夕エビス Ebisu in the evening.

......................................................................................... Nara 奈良県
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春日町 Kasuga town

kaii 怪異 something weird
In the year 1791, on day 20 in August, the official day of audiences with the regent, there was a huge storm and rain.
The shinboku 神木 sacred tree of the Shrine 春日大社 Kasuga Taisha and the tooroo 燈篭 stone lantern in the park fell down.

......................................................................................... Saga 佐賀県
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鎮西町 Chinzei town

おちょす様 O-Chosu sama
At the wayside there was sacred a rock named O-Chosu sama and people venerated 藁葺き屋根の木 a tree where the bark was used for roof tiles.
On day 20 of the New Year, children used the rock as target for shooting arrows.
Once the villagers wanted to remove the rock, but that would bring bad luck.

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

If people prepare chikara mochi 力餅 rice cakes to bring strenth, on day 20 of the New Year, they will all become strong in the coming year.

. chikara mochi 力餅 Mochi to bring strength .

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

The last day 20 of the year in December in the local dialect is called
hatsuru hatsuka 果つる二十日
On this day many bad things can happen and people refrain from going very far, doing a great house-cleaning, having a wedding ceremony or do sentaku 洗濯 a lot of washing.

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Tokushima 阿南市 Anan city

hate no hatsuka 果ての二十日 the last day 20 of the year
A large man of almost 2 meters lived in the village. He was very stubborn and did not listen to the warnings of his family.
On the last day 20 of the year he went to the mountain to split rocks for a wall. On his way back he met a horse carriage with barrels of 生石灰 lime stones.
A voice ordered him "Climb up on this carriage!", so he climbed up on a board and when he was on the barrels with the stones, he wanted to let the board down. One of the barrels fell into the pond. Then one of the barrels fell on him and eventually he burned to death.

......................................................................................... Toyama 富山県

On day 20 of January Ebisu Sama goes to 北海道 Hokkaido to work.
On 十一月二十日 day 20th of Novewmber, Ebisu Sama comes back from 北海道 Hokkaido and brings money.

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

sakenosuke サケノスケ the Salmon named Sakenosuke
On Day 20 of the 10th lunar month during the hatsuka Ebisu 二十日講 Ebisu rituals, the fish comes upriver calling out
「サケノスケ今通る」 Sakenosuke is now passing !
and hitting a cutting board with a kitchen knife.
Anybody who hears his voice will die soon.

. sake no oosuke 鮭の大助 the salmon called Osuke .

......................................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県
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都留市 Tsuru city

On Day 20 of January Ebisu san goes out to work and make money. The family sees him off with an auspicious meal of sekihan 赤飯 red rice.
If they forget to prepare the rice, the family will not make much money in the coming year.

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. animals and their legends 動物と伝説 - - ABC list .

. plants and their legends 　植物と伝説 - - ABC list .

. trees and their legends 　樹木, 木と伝説 - - ABC list .

. Persons, People, Personen and their legends - - ABC list .

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

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- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan -

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2020-03-06

Gozan Bungaku Literature

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Gozan Bungaku 五山文学 Literature of the Five Mountains

五山文学研究 / 堀川貴司

虎関師錬 Kokan Shiren (1278-1346)
寂室元光 Jakushitsu Genko (1290-1367)
雪村友梅 Sesson Yubai (1290-1347)
中巌円月 Chugan Engetsu (1300-1375)
愚中周及 Guchu Shukyu (1323-1409)
義堂周信 Gido Shushin (1325-1388)
絶海中津 Zekkai Chushin (1334-1405)
瑞渓周鳳 Zuikei Shuho (1392-1473)
万里集九 Banri Shuku (1428-?)
横川景三 Osen Keisan (1429-1493)
策彦周良 Sangen Shuryo (1501-1579)

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The literature of the Five Mountains (Japanese: 五山文学, gozan bungaku)
is the literature produced by the principal Zen (禅) monastic centers of the Rinzai sect in Kyoto and Kamakura, Japan.
The term also refers to five Zen centers in China in Hangzhou and Ningpo that inspired zen in Japan, while the term "mountain" refers to a Buddhist monastery.
Five Mountains literature or gozan bungaku (五山文學)
is used collectively to refer to the poetry and prose in Chinese produced by Japanese monks during the 14th and 15th centuries. Included are works by Chinese monks residing in Japan.
The period witnessed a widespread importation of cultural influences from Song and Yuan period China that in many ways transformed Japan.
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2020-03-03

Hinamatsuri Doll Festival legends

shiawasebina しあわせ雛 Happy Hina Dolls
Usaburo Kokeshi (卯三郎こけし) - Gunma

. Hina Doll Festival (hina matsuri 雛祭り) - March 03 .
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Hinazuru Jinja 雛鶴神社（ひなづるじんじゃ）　Hinatsuru Shrine
山梨県都留市朝日曾雌 Tsuru city, Asahi Soshi
Dedicated to Hinazuru Hime 雛鶴姫 Princess Hinazuru, Tsuruhime Sama　鶴姫さま

She was the wife of 護良親王 Moriyoshi Shinno, who's head is venerated at the Shrine 石船神社 Iwafune Jinja.

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Prince Moriyoshi (護良親王, Moriyoshi Shinnō, also called Prince Morinaga or Prince　Oōtōnomiya) (1308 – 1335) was a Japanese prince and monk.
He was the son of Emperor Go-Daigo and his consort Minamoto no Chikako.
His wife was Princess Hinatsuru. She was pregnant and fled to Yamanashi.
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- - - - - A legend from Yamanashi, 秋山村 Akiyama village:
In this village, people do not decorate with kadomatsu 門松 pine decorations.
Princess Hinazuru had fled to this village and died here on December 28.
So there was no time to put up pine decorations.
People stick a branch of the kunugi 椚 / 櫟 sawtooth oak, Quercus acutissima in the ground instead.

. kadomatsu 門松と伝説 Legends about pine decorations .

There is another Shrine with this name at Uenohara, Yamanashi.

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In the year 1745, at the home of 中山大納言栄親卿 Nakayama Dainagon Naruchika the things decorated in his home seemed moving and ceramic pieces were floating around.
He had purifucation rituals held and died in the autumn of the year.
When the family decorated Hina dolls next year in March, the dolls begun to laugh.

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木田郡 Kita district 三木町 Miki town

At the home of 三平 Sanpei, who lived near the graveyard at 二ノ坂 Ninosaka, they decorate Hina dolls and talk to them in a loud voice.
One day there was a fire at the home, but the Hina dolls seemed to come alive and rolled out of the danger.

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Kagawa 三豊市 Mitoyo city 仁尾町 Nio town

shishi koma 獅子駒 / シシコマ rice cake offerings like animals

Once there was the castle of 細川越中の守 the Hosokawa regent of Etchu, but the castle was lost in war and 長曽我部氏 Lord Chosokabe commited suicide on the day of the Hina Doll Festival.
Therefore the people of the area do not decorate Hina dolls in March, but on hassaku 八朔 the first of August.
His soul came back as a strange beast, and caused much trouble. To appease his soul people prepared special rice cakes.

. hassaku 八朔 (はっさく) first of August .
Many people in Western and Central Japan prepare these rice cakes for the Hassaku rituals.
hassakubina, hassaku hina 八朔雛

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玉名郡 Tamana district 南関町 Nankan town

Once upon a time
A father of two sons told them to leave home for three years to learn something and then come back.
The elder son became a skilled carpenter.
The other brought two beautiful ひーなさん Hina dolls - he had stolen them from the home where he had worked, and thus became a thief.

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......................................................................................... Niigata 新潟県
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糸魚川市 Itoigawa city

On March 3, the day of the Hina Matsuri it usually rains.
It also rains if people do not pack the dolls away on the fourth day it will rain and a daughter of such a home will have a hard time finding a husband.

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......................................................................................... Shizuoka 静岡県
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磐田市 Iwata city

. ujigami　氏神 clan KAMI deities .
The clan deities do not like Hina dolls and the villagers to not celebrate on March 3.
If a family keeps dolls, they would have bad luck and get ill.

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......................................................................................... Tokyo 東京都
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八王子市 Hachioji city

Two beautifully dressed girls kept going up and down the staircase. When the housewife went up there, she fould an old box in the corner with Hina dolls.
These two had wanted to be shown again and thus the family offered them to the local Shinto Shrine.

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

miruna no zashiki みるなの座敷 "don't look in the living room"
In the mansion there was a special room where men were not allowed to look inside.
One man did not adhere to this rule and stepped inside.
The first room was decorated for the New Year,
The second room was for the hatsu-uma 初午 first day of the horse in February.
The third one was for the Hina Doll festival in March.
May was for taue 田植え planting the rice fields.
June was for pulling weeds from the fields.
July (not August) was for bon odori 盆踊り the Bon dance.
September was for inekari 稲刈り cutting the rice.
October was for dakkoku 脱穀 threshing.
When he looked in the last room for December, there was a very strong snowstorm and the man died in the cold.

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......................................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県
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富士吉田市 Fuji Yoshida

If the Hina dolls are not taken out for display until the 28th of February, they will begin to cry.

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Yamanashi Tsurushibina Kan つるし雛館 Museum for Tsurushibina hanging dolls
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. tsurushibina, tsurushi bina つるし雛 / 吊るし雛 small hanging hina dolls .
These small dolls are suspended from the ceiling, an umbrella or a large branch ...

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. plants and their legends 　植物と伝説 - - ABC list .

. trees and their legends 　樹木, 木と伝説 - - ABC list .

. Persons, People, Personen and their legends - - 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 .

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2020-02-14

fundoshi loincloth legends

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fundoshi 褌と伝説 Legends about the loincloth
koshimaki　腰巻 "hip wrapper" waistcloth for women
tafusagi 犢鼻褌　/ たふさぎ / タフサギ　loincloth　

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. fundoshi 褌 / ふんどし loincloth .
otoko no noren 男の暖簾 "the door curtain of a man"
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. oni no fundoshi 鬼の褌 loincloth of Demons .
Oni are usually depicted with bull horns and tiger fangs, wearing loincloths made of tiger skin.
(Tigers were not known in Japan.)

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kamanari 釜鳴 / narukama 鳴釜 "the singing kettle"
In the countryside, if the kama 釜 kettle would "sing" and make a sound at night, the farmers would wrap fundoshi 褌 a new loincloth for a woman upside-down around it.

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......................................................................................... Gifu 岐阜県
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高山市 Takayama city 荘川村 Shokawa village // 六尺褌

yamainu 山犬 wolf
1920年ごろまでは、山を歩くと山犬（狼）が着いて回ったという。山犬は谷があると山を廻って水を潜って人を待ち伏せする。人は、六尺褌の先に環を作ってぶら下げていくといい。

......................................................................................... Ibaraki 茨城県
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那珂郡 Naka district

kitsune tsuki 狐憑き bewitched by a fox
昔、へんなふうになってしまった女の人がいて、頭から半天を被ったり褌をつけて部屋で腰巻1丁になって逆立ちしたりした。大光院のワカサマに御祈祷してもらうと狐憑きとわかったのでガキ様に油揚げ・お強飯をあげた。

......................................................................................... Ishikawa 石川県
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羽咋郡 Hakui district 志賀町 Shika town

sanmai Taroo サンマイタロウ / 三昧太郎 A Yokai monster from Ishikawa
褌の前垂れを杭で打ちつけたのを、サンマイタロウにキンタマをつかまれたと思い込んだ。

......................................................................................... Iwate 岩手県
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田野畑村 Tanohata village

kappa 河童
兄の河童の尻はいつまでも紫色だったので、弟の河童が抜きたがった。兄はうるさくて仕方がないので鍛冶屋に頼んで尻当金を作ってもらい、それを当てて褌で締めて隠していたという。

. Kappa legends from Iwate 岩手県 .

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

kenmon ケンモン
ある男がケンモンと七日後に相撲をとる約束をした。妻が物知りのところに相談に行くと、鉄のやかんの蓋を身につけていけばよいと言われたので、袋形の褌に鉄のやかんの蓋を入れて相撲をとった。ケンモンは鉄のやかんに触れたとたん、崩れ落ちて逃げた。
. kenmun ケンムン / けんもん kenmon .

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Kagoshima 大島郡 Oshima district 喜界町Kikai town

mun no hi ムンノヒ ? じゃんじゃん火
物の火のことをいう。イザリ（夜魚をとること）をやっていると、波打ち際に小さな火が無数に点滅して、イザリの火を奪いに来る。奪いに来る火は大きい。褌をぶらさげるか、つばを吐くと逃げる。

......................................................................................... Kyoto 京都府
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京都市 Kyoto city

Near 東洞院 the Temple Higashi no To-In, ushiguruma 牛車 an ox cart rushed by
and surpassed a woman of about 30 years.
The oxen looked at the woman and stopped. The woman could also not move any more.
The cattle driver took the tafusagi たふさぎ loin cloth of the woman and wrapped it around the eyes of the oxen.
Now the oxen could move again and the woman also.
When the woman reached home, she fell down dead.

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Yama no kami 山の神
山での失せものさがしは、男は褌をはずして、山の神に男根を見せたり、男根をふれば見つかる。
. Yamanokami Legends from Niigata 新潟県 .

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天王寺区 Tennoji ward

当寺（四天王寺）の庚申堂は、大宝元年正月７日の庚申の日、僧に感徳があった霊場で、本朝最初の庚申とされる。昔、12月の庚申の日を仕舞庚申と俗に言い、その日に庚申堂へ裸体で参詣すれば遺尿が治ると言って、裸に褌のみで参詣する者が多かった。

. Shitenno-Ji 四天王寺 Temple in Osaka .

......................................................................................... Shiga 滋賀県
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蒲生郡 Gamou district 日野町 Hino town

. Doing Sumo at 綿向神社 Watamuki Jinja .

. ema 絵馬 votive tablet at 明王院 Myo-O-In .

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okuri ookami 送り狼
狼が山道などで人間の後にくっついて来るのを送り狼という。転ぶと飛びつかれて噛み殺されてしまう。予防するには、狼につけられた時に、帯なり褌なりをといて地面にひきずるとよい。
. okuri ookami 送り狼 "a wolf following someone" - legends .

......................................................................................... Okinawa 沖縄県
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石垣市 Ishigaki city

. majin 魔神 the devil and his loincloth .

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Okinawa 国頭郡 Kunigami district 本部町 Motobu town

yookai 妖怪 a monster
ウチテーガネクは妖怪が出る場所として知られていた。夜間に妖怪の出る場所を通るときには、魔除けとして男は褌を頭からかぶり、女は簪を抜いて髪をかき乱し、簪を口にくわえて通るとどんな妖怪でも退散すると言い伝えられている。

......................................................................................... Tochigi 栃木県
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馬頭町 Batomachi

. Setsubun present for an old woman .

......................................................................................... Yamaguchi 山口県
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宇部市 Ube city

oohito sokuseki 大人足跡
昔、大人が内海を跨ぎ越そうとしたが、そのとき褌が海中に浸って死んだ。そのときの足跡があり、１反歩ばかりある。

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褌 OK // 33 腰巻 koshimaki (00)

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2020-02-10

manju steamed buns legends

. manjuu まんじゅう / 饅頭 steamed buns in all seasone .
buns filled with bean jam
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......................................................................................... Osaka

. Shotoku Taishi 聖徳太子 and Manju .
Tn the village 天王寺村 Tennoji they never sell manju 饅頭 steamed buns.

......................................................................................... Tokyo 東京
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Asakusa district

. Manju for a fox .

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2020-02-08

namazu catfish legends

. namazu なまず / 鯰 / 鮧　catfish - der Wels .
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namazu ナマズ / 鮧

鮧のない土地に鮧が生じれば、洪水が起こるという。関東の地には鮧が古来いなかったが、鮧が現れると果たして洪水が起こった。その後も漁師が他の魚をとれないほど大量に発生し、大きいものは５、６尺に達した。１０年を経て漸減していったという。奇妙なことだ。

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......................................................................................... 　Buzen 豊前国
- Now part of Fukuoka Prefecture and Ōita Prefecture
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. Otsuka Shoemon 大塚庄右衛門 .
and 瀬川藤介 Segawa Tokichi

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鮧 - OK // 24 鯰 (00)

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2020-02-06

pottery legends

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yakimono 焼物と伝説 Legends about pottery

. yakimono 焼物　/ setomono 瀬戸物 pottery, crockery .
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tooki 陶器 ceramics

Modern Japanese Ceramics:
Pathways of Innovation & Tradition
by Anneliese Crueger (Author), Wulf Crueger (Author), Saeko Ito (Author)

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. Nakayama Dainagon Naruchika 中山大納言栄親卿 and Hina Dolls .

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......................................................................................... Aichi 愛知県
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豊田市 Toyota city

nezumi ねずみ mouse, rat
A man could not sleep because something like a mouse seemed to come out from under his pillow every night. He got yamainu 山犬 a wolf statue from the local Gongen Shrine. He put the statue on a shelf, read 心経 the Heart Sutra and soon heard the sound of something leaving through the door. From the next day on, he could sleep undisturbed.

. Legends about the mice and rats ねずみ / ネズミ .

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

. 荒神様 Kojin Sama at 房住山 Mount Boju .

......................................................................................... Aomori 青森県
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三戸郡 Sannohe 新郷村 Shingo village

soozen sama ソウゼン様 / お蒼前様 protector deity of horses

The 高村家 Takamura family had always kept horses for work and erected hokora 祠 a small Shrine in their compound to venerate Sozen Sama.
Until around 1955 many people came here to venerate the deity on the 16th day of January. Sozen Sama was not venerated inside a house.
Once during a rainstorm, it fell into a pond together with the hokora for 瀬戸物の神体 the Deity of Pottery and was never found again.

myoojin sama 明神様 the Myojin Deity
The 横田家 Yokota family had a large katsura no ki カツラの大木 Japanese Judas tree in their garden, where they venerated Myojin Sama. Near its roots was a Hokora for 明神様 Myojin Sama. Inside was 瀬戸物 a piece of pottery with shirohebi 白蛇 a white serpent coiled around it.
In former times a relative had built ths with the wish to become a learned man, and others came to pray here too.
. katsura 桂 Japanese Judas tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum - legends .

......................................................................................... Ehime 愛媛県
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松山市 Matsuyama city // 焼き物

. katame no buna 片目の鮒 crucian carp with one eye .
One of the seven wonders of Matsuyama castle are the crucian carps with one eye in the moat.
When 弘法大師 Kobo Daishi Kukai was on his pilgrimage in Shikoku, a villager had grilled crucian carp for dinner gave half of it to Kukai. Kukai threw the carp into the moat and it came back to life. But it had only one eye.

......................................................................................... Gifu 岐阜県
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明智町 Akechi town 串原 Kushihara village / 中山神社 Nakayama Jinja // 焼き物

. Oinusama 御犬様 O-Inusama, "Honorable Wolf Deity" .
A man went to 中山神社 the Shrine Nakayama Jinja and got 焼き物のお犬様 a small pottery figure of O-Inu Sama. He erected a small Shrine and venerated it..

In former times, there was a fox in the compound of a rich man in Kushihara. Once the bride of the family went home to her own family with her father, but suddenly disappeared and when father came home, she was already there. Other villagers said they got cured just be seeing this bride. Someone suggested the bride was bewitched by a fox and to get rid of the curse, she had to go to 中山神社 Nakayama Shrine and get a pottery figure of O-Inu Sama.

......................................................................................... Iwate 岩手県
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奥州市 Oshu town // 瀬戸物屋

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
A setomonoya 瀬戸物屋 pottery dealer found a fox in his garden and killed it with a stick. Or so he thought !
But the fox had bewitched him and he had smashed all his pottery.

......................................................................................... Kagoshima 鹿児島県
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川内市 Satsuma Sendai city // 焼き物

. Garappa ガラッパ the Kappa of Kyushu .
Pottery pieces of garappa ガラッパ the local Kappa have only three fingers.

......................................................................................... Kanagawa 神奈川県
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茅ヶ崎市西久保 Chigasaki Nishi-Kubo // 陶器

. Kappa legends from Kanagawa .
In Nishi-Kubo there is a small river where the local Kappa pulled horses into the river. The other Kappa became angry and wanted to kill it. But a villager passing by saved the Kappa. In the evening two Kappa came by to express his thanks. The male had a pottery bottle with Sake 酒 rice wine and two suzuki 鱸 sea brass. This was during the Kamakura period (1185 – 1333).
When people poured Sake from the bottle, they always left a little bit and next morning the bottle was full again. This would go on for ages, promised the Kappa. But then one evening the humans drunk all the bottle to the last drup, and from that time it stayed empty.

......................................................................................... Kyoto 京都府
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瀬戸物

. ryuu, ryū 龍　竜　伝説　Ryu - dragon legends .

At Okoshi no Taki 尾越の瀧 the waterfall of Okoshi there lived a dragon. In the direction where he stayed, the water would get dirty and the bottom could not be seen. If people throw dirt or 瀬戸物の破片 shards of pottery into the water, rain will not stop for a long time.
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Kyoto 東山区 Higashiyama ward // 焼き物

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
In January of the year 1731 near 建仁寺 the temple Kennin-Ji there was a shop selling bowls. The son of the owner got an order from a man from Sakai/Osaka, to make pottery bowls for the Korean ambassadors. To collect the payment his father went to Sakai, but he was told that they never placed such an order. When the father questioned his son, he was confused, could not understand a word and was obviously bewitched by a fox.

......................................................................................... Mie 三重県
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鈴鹿市 Suzuka city

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
A merchant from Yokkaichi went out for business, loading his car with rice bowls, chopsticks and more. In the evening he came to a bridge where he found a baby carriage with a crying baby. This must be an abandoned child, he thought, took it in his arms and cradled it. When he came back to his senses, he realized he had been shaking his own car and all the pottery pieces inside were broken. He did not remember where he was and stayed there confused until the next morning. He had been bewitched by a fox, no doubt.

......................................................................................... Nagasaki 長崎県
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西海市 Saikai city 西彼町Saihi town // 焼き物

suijin sawari 水神さわり touched by the God of Water
There is a river providing drinking water to the city. If people throw in pottery or metal items or try to wash their own body, the body begins to ache, as they have been touched by the God of the Water. To get healed they must make offerings of o-miki お神酒 ritual rice wine, salt and rice.
. Mizu no Kami, Mizunokami 水の神 Deity of Water - 水神 Suijin .

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Nagasaki 平戸市 Hirado city // 陶器

. funadama 船玉 / 船霊 / 船魂 guardian deity of a boat .
In March 1934 in 平戸島志々伎湾 Shijiki Bay of Hirado Island, there was the sound of broken pottery pieces crashing against each other. First villagers thought it was the sound of someone hitting a gong.
People on some boats heard the sound too.

......................................................................................... Osaka 大阪府
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. Tooki 陶器神社 Shrine Toki Jinja .

. gama 蝦蟇と伝説 Legends about toads .
oogama 大蝦蟇 a huge toad
Around 1900 there was an article in the Osaka Mainichi Shinbun newspaper about Shinodayama no oogama 信田山の大蝦蟇 a huge toad from Mount Shinodayama. In that summer, at the Shrine Toki Jinja in 瀬戸物町 the Setomoni district in d gorge someone had seen a huge toad, almost as big as a human, with sparkling eyeballs. Many visitors came to the mountain in that summer.
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. hitodama 人魂 / 人玉と伝説 Legends about sparkling human souls .
One summer some young people saw a hitodama 人魂 sparkle of human soul near 船町橋 the Funamachibashi bridge, but it did not stay long.
Then 陶器商の主人 a pottery merchant from 筋違橋 Sujikaibashi had a dream : He went to the bridge because he felt thirsty, but he was attacked by some thugs and fled in haste. When he awoke, he was covered in sweat. After he had told the dream to his wife, he dropped dead.

......................................................................................... Shiga 滋賀県
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犬上郡 Inukami District 甲良町 Kora town

. ryuujin 竜神 /龍神と伝説 Ryujin, Legends about the Dragon Deity .
Once a woman could not forgive the sins of her man and committed suicide by drowning in the pond and became a Dragon Deity. If people throw shards of pottery into this pond, she gets angry and brings great rain over the area.
If other women commit suicide in the pond, they will be transformed into snakes and serpents 蛇身.

......................................................................................... Tottori 鳥取県
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西伯郡 Saihaku district 中山町 Nakayama town // 瀬戸物

TEXT big font kin no tamago 金の卵 the golden egg
Once a man exchanged a cow for a rooster which could lay golden eggs. He wanted to have one more and decided to buy another cow to exchange it. That night Kannon Bosatsu appeared in his dream. She made him realize that this was too much of greed and he needed to change.
The next morning when he awoke, the golden egg had turned into an egg of pottery.

......................................................................................... Wakayama 和歌山県
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西牟婁郡 Nishi-Muro district

. raijin 雷神 Kaminari, God of Thunder - Legends .
The heso　臍 navel of the God of Thunder had come out of the ground. It looked like 陶器質 a piece of pottery, its size that of the heart of a mullet.

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Thunder(Kaminari in Japanese) is a god. He is fearful but makes us grateful because he brings out rain which make rice plants grow up. So we call him Kaminari-sama with respect. Sama is a term of respect. He is often shown in Japanese picture books as a demon with two horns on his head, only wearing pants of tiger skin, carrying small drumson his back. When he starts to beat his drums, thunder and lighting are born and it rains.
Parents often tell their children to be careful of their navels, because Kaminari's favorite food is a navel and he is coming to steal theirs.
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Wakayama 東平婁郡 Tohei district

nanatsuzuka no tatari 七塚の祟り the curse of the "seven mounds"

Near the graves of Jofuku there is a place called Nanatsuzuka 七塚 "seven mounds", where seven retainers of the Lord are buried. Once the graves were dug out and some swords and 陶器 pottery pieces were found. The people involved in this digging suddenly became ill, so the place was refilled again and never touched.
Now it is 七塚の碑 a stone memorial at 徐福公園 Jofuku Park.

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

If a ten 貂 marten is killing chickens or fish from the pond, people place 陶器製 a huge statue of a toad nearby.
This will stop the marten from coming again.

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2020-02-04

taki no nushi waterfall legends

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taki no nushi 滝の主と伝説 Legends about the master of the waterfall

. Waterfalles named "Fudo no Taki" 不動の滝 .

source : 紀伊半島の滝シリーズ - youtube

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......................................................................................... Shizuoka 静岡県
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Yugashima 天城湯ヶ島町 Amagi Yugashima town

. Joren no Taki 浄蓮の滝 Jōren Falls. Waterfall .

......................................................................................... Wakayama 和歌山県
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東牟婁郡 Higashi-Muro district 本宮町 Hongu town

. daija, orochi 大蛇 the huge serpent, great snake .
The taki no nushi 滝の主 Master of the Waterfall is a huge serpent and also an unagi 鰻 eel.
This Master does not like Umeboshi. If someone throws Umeboshi in the waterfall, there will be thunder, storm and much rain.

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