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Legends about Fudo お不動さま - 02
densetsu 伝説 - minwa 民話
. Folktales 昔ばなし mukashibanashi about Fudo .
- Part 01 -
アイバのお不動さん Aiba no O-Fudo San / Aichi
- on koro koro sendari matoogi sowaka -
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- - - - - Aichi 愛知県
アイバのお不動さん Aiba no O-Fudo San
near the temple Tooshooji 東正寺 Tosho-Ji there is a well with clear water, now famous as the "water of Fudo" お不動さんの名水.
1 Chome-7 Heishichimachi, Hekinan, Aichi
Once a statue of Fudo Myo-O had been found in the mountain nearby, so the villagers built this temple for it. Now it is in a Fudo-In 不動院 hall, founded by 源為義従者 Minamoto no Tameyoshi in 1288.
source : トボトボ歩く碧南市
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- - - - - Akita 秋田県
山本郡 Yamamoto gun 二ツ井町 Futatsui machi
ryuujin 竜神 The Dragon Deity
Between the hamlet of Kogake 小掛集落 and Karimataishi 刈又石集落 there is a waterfall dedicated to Fudo Myo-O. At the Fudo Hhall there, the messenger of Fudo, the Dragon Deity 竜神 takes care of business. If someone taking a retreat at the hall (komori 籠り) the deity comes to have a look at him.
About 1951 they say, there was also an apparition of the Dragon Deity near the great cedar tree near the hall, but it was only a small dragon.
. Ryuujin 龍神, 竜神 Ryujin, the Dragon God .
Here is another legend from Kogake, about
. Shooki 鍾馗 Shoki, the Demon Queller .
In the small hamlet of 鬼神集落 Onigami the protector deity, in fact 不動様 Fudo Sama, is also called オボシナサマ Oboshina sama.
Its festival is the 28th day of the 3rd lunar month, now on May 8. On the evening before the festival people put their boiled vegetables in a bento lunch box and meet at the shrine, to eat it all together. They are not allowed to eat any meat on this occasion.
Then in 1956 some brave one eat some meat and what do you say - the next day was a huge fire in the hamlet and 17 homes burned down.
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- - - - - Fukushima 福島県
会津若松市 Aizu Wakamatsu
A story told by 長嶺トキ Nagamine Toki.
After an operation for an artificial hip joint she was unconcious for 4 days. In the evening of the 4th day in the room for the nurses there appeared Fudo Myo-O in the left corner of the ceiling. In the middle appeared many Jizo figures and in the right there was Kannon sama leading a child.
(After that vision she was healed.)
郡山市 Koriama 湖南町 Konan
Two farmers were sleeping in the fields during lunchtime, when suddenly a large boulder came rolling down and stopped right beside them. "This must be a stone to venerate Kannon Bosatsu"!
Then some specialists came from Aizu Wakamatsu and said it should be placed at the Waterfall of Kitamori 北森の滝 where Fudo Myo-O is venerated.
So the villagers carried the stone near the waterfall, shounting "Kan man baran" all the way. カンマンバラン Kanmanbaran is the local name of the Fudo Myo-O.
Kanmanboron, Kanman Boron カンマンボロン.
This is "kanman boron" in a different cliff
at Mizugakiyama 瑞牆山（みずがきやま） in Yamanashi
- source and photos : thunter.or.tv/irorian
noomaku sanmanda bazaradan senda
makaroshada sowataya
un tarata kanman
. The mantra of Fudo Myo-O .
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- - - - - Gifu 岐阜県
揖斐川町 Ibigawa
- source and more photos : fairport_asai
memorial stones of Fudo Myo-O near the waterfall
At the 不動の滝 Fudo Waterfall upstream of the river Takashitanigawa 高科谷川 Fudo Myo-O is venerated. When there is a water shortage in the village, people come here to pray.
If a frog appears while they pray, then rain will fall soon.
If bees come out while they pray, it will not rain for a while.
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- - - - - Ibaraki 茨城県
北相馬郡 Kita Soma gun 守谷町 Moria
O-bake ishi お化け石 The ghost stone
In July of 1975 there appeared a ghost face on the memorial stone for Narita Fudo Myo-O 成田山不動明王石碑に幽霊. Some said it was the ghost of whe samurai Taira no Masakado 平将門様, others said it looked like their grandpa, others saw a woman in white robes carrying a child. No, it was a white cat buried below the stone. . . . All kinds of visions!
This story got so famous that it was even shown on TV and the village was flooded with inquisitive tourists. They needed a car parking space and the road to the Stone was always packed with cars. Then in the end it became clear that the "ghost" was some dried autumn grasses 枯れ尾花 and the fame died down, the village became quiet again.
source : torishin.cocolog-nifty.com #moriya
那珂郡 Naka gun
yonayona hikaru ishi 夜な夜な光る石
the stone that sparkled all night
This region, once ruled by the 佐竹家 Satake clan cam under the lordship of the Tokugawa.
The graves stones of the Satake clan had been removed and thrown into the river. Among the grave stones was also a stone statue of Fudo Myo-O which begun to sparkle at night. 丹下の宗助 Tange no Sosuke picked up the stone and began to venerate it.
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- - - - - Iwate 岩手県
東磐井郡 Higashi Iwai gun 大東村 Daitomura
Told by a villager.
Once he was cutting down trees. He came to the hamlet of 野田集落 Noda and cut the branches of a torii dedicated to Fudo Myo-O お不動様の鳥居 and spent the night in the Fudo Hall. Because it was bitter cold he tore off the flags and used them to cover his shivering body. Then at midnight there was a sound at the front door.
And then next morning he could not move his body. Because he had slept in the same direction as the deity, he had been obstructing the deity from leaving the hall and this was his punishment.
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岩手郡 Iwate
. Fudo as Hearth and Fire Deity 火の神（炉の神） .
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遠野市 Tono 土淵町 Tsuchibuchi mura
zashikiwarashi, zashikiwaraji ザシキワラシ/ 座敷わらし Zashiki Warashi Child
Once there was a fire in the village and just then a child with short cut hair おかっぱ姿 walked by the homes asking for food because it was hungry. The people were busy putting out the fire and did not pay attention to the child, but despite all their effort the home burned to the ground.
Another home, where the folks took the time to give some food to the child, did not burn down.
Now they say it was O-Fudo sama walking around trying to prevent the fire from spreading.
On Zashiki-Warashi
Zashiki-warashi ("zashiki" meaning the tatami room of traditional Japanese houses, and "warashi" meaning a kid or small child) are often seen as a kind of omen in the houses of once-great families on the verge of decline.
- source : Zack Davisson
. Tōno monogatari 遠野物語 Tono Monogatari.
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. Miyagi prefecture 宮城県 - お不動さま .
- 鬼首村 Onikobe village (Demon Head Village)
- 伊具郡 Igu gun - tatsubu 田ツブ Tanishi mud snail
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- - - - - Kochi 高知県
幡多郡 Hata gun 大月町 Otsuki
When the villagers performed a rain ritual at the waterfall of Fudo, there appeared a white snake and a red snake, telling them their wish would be granted. The snake is an incarnation of Fudo.
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- - - - - Nara 奈良県
西吉野村 Nishi Yoshino village
If someone throws the statue of a Fudo Myo-O into the nearby river pool, it will begin to rain during a drought.
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- - - - - Niigata 新潟県
上越市 Joetsu
On the top of 不動山 Mount Fudoyama there is a statue of Fudo. In the morning of April 25 the followers climb the mountain to pray and make offerings. At least once in a lifetime followers should climb that mountain.
Mount Fudosan, 1.430 m.
This Fudo will heal diseases of the eyes 目の病に効く.
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十日町市 Tokamachi 松代町 Matsushiro
During the great earthquake in December 1833, the statue of Fudo in the temple 大照院（大正院）Daisho-In rolled out of the temple building. The people inside followed him in a hurry and all went out - just in time before the building collapsed. Fudo had saved them all.
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新発田市 Shibata
. Fudo and tanishi 田螺 mud snails. .
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- - - - - Okayama 岡山県
真庭郡 Maniwa gun
ryuu 龍 Ryu, the Dragon
and the Amako clan 尼子一族
Once there was a beautiful princess called おまる姫 O-Maru Hime at the home of Yoshida Bo of the Amako clan. Every night a young man came to her quarters. He never made a sound and that was very strange. So the Lord ordered his retainers to follow the young man. He went to the basin of the Fudo waterfall 不動の滝壷, became a dragon and disappeared in the water.
Oh dear, that was quite a terrible shock and now the father ordered the princess to stay in confinement. But she became terribly love-sick for her young man. So they brought the princess to the waterfall and she jumped in before it could be prevented.
Her mother was so very upset that she called upon her to show her figure just once more.
So the princes, turned into a dragon, came up once again.
Now her family gave up on her and threw a bottle of sake rice wine into the waterfall as an offering.
This was on the first day of the sixth lunar month, so now there is a festival for Fudo Myo-O on this day.
A similar story is also told in 恵庭郡 Eniwa gun 新座村 Shinzamura.
In some villages of Okayama the Deity of the Toilet is called
不動様 "Fudo Sama".
. benjogami 便所神 / 厠神 Deity of the Toilet .
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- - - - - Oita 大分県
佐伯市 Saiki
Once there was a bad fishing season in the village and the local Lord had to borrow food for the people. Then he forgot to pay it back.
Anyway, when they next went fishing there was a statue of 波切不動 Namikiri Fudo caught in the nets .
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- - - - - Shizuoka 静岡県
榛原郡 Haibara gun 本川根町 Honkawane cho
kitsune 狐 the fox
Once upon a time
someone went to the village of Senzu 千頭 to by some pacific saury サンマ and was on his way home. When he was near the Fudo Hall, he suddenly became very tired and lay down for a nap. While he was sleeping, someone stole his fish.
People now say he was bewitched by a fox 狐にだまされた.
浜松市 Hamamatsu
daija 大蛇 The Huge Serpent
Kanzawa, Tenryu Ward, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
In the お不動様の池 Fudo Pond at the Fudo Waterfall of the hamlet 新切 there once lived a huge serpent. The creature seemed to have come from the Dainichi Pond 大日様の池 (or 峯神沢) nearby.
A young temple acolyte from the Dainichi Temple came here to fish and lost his fish hook in the pond. But the serpents dislike metal, so the serpent left the pond and soon after the water was also almost gone.
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In the pool of the 黒滝の渕 Kurotaki waterfall, sacred to Fudo Myo-O, it is not allowed to fish for "アノメ anome". If you do so there will be a divine retribution (Fudo no tatari タタリ / 祟り).
People who dare to pee into this pool will also be damned and die soon afterwards.
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沼津市 Numazu
yamainu 山犬 Mountain Dog
Ill dogs are not let into mountain villages, and if they enter anyway, Fudo will take the leash of the dog and lead him away. The villagers know well about the dangers of ill animals, especially ill dogs and pray to Fudo Myo-O to protect them from damage.
. 霊犬早太郎伝説
The legend of the spiritual dog Hayataro. .
"The Heroic Dog of Kozenji Temple", where Fudo Myo-O is venerated.
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- - - - - Yamagata 山形県
最上郡 Mogami gun 金山町 Kaneyama
. Fudo Ryuma 不動 龍馬 and the Kappa .
南置賜郡 Minami Okitama gun 中津川村 Nakatsugawa
At the hut near the charcoal kiln 炭焼き小屋 above the Fudo hall someone killed a cat and ate it.
He then became seized by the Inari fox 狐.
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- - - - - Yamanashi 山梨県
都留市 Tsuru
Once there was a huge flooding and and the waterfall changed its course. In the water of the flooded fields something was shining. When the farmers pulled it out, it was a statue of Fudo Myo-O. They built a small sanctuary to pray for it. The sanctuary later burend down but the statue was rescued in time.
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- - - - - reference
yokai database 妖怪データベース
- source : www.nichibun.ac.jp
- source : www.google.co.jp
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. Folktales 昔ばなし mukashibanashi about Fudo .
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