12 Nov 2019

MINGEI -chocho butterfly art and legends

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chocho butterfly art

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choochoo 蝶々 Chocho, butterfly art motives - and legends

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. ema 絵馬 votive tablets .


from the shrine 三光稲荷神社 Sanko Inari Jinja, Inuyama, Aichi

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. kokeshi こけし wooden dolls .





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. tako 凧 kite .



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. temari 手まり、手毬 hand ball, round decoration ball .


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絹てまり「蝶乱舞」

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. tsurushibina つるし雛 / 吊るし雛 small hanging hina dolls .



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. kimono 着物 robes and obi 帯 sash .



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魚屋北渓 Totoya Hokkei - Cat and Butterfly

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- Kkites and butterflies art motives from the Prefectures - this blog

Sakurai no tako 桜井の凧 butterfly kite from Sakurai, Aichi
chodako 蝶凧 butterfly kite from Isehara, Kanagawa
fuutan フータン butterfly toy from Okinawa


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chawan 茶碗 tea bowls and rice bowls with a butterfly


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yakimono 焼物 pottery with a butterfly


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. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .
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........................................................................................... Fukushima 福島県 
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石城郡 Iwaki district 田人村 Tabito village

A large butterfly came into the house and fluttered around grandmother.
When she chased it away to the kitchen door, in changed to a dead person for a moment and then left the house.




........................................................................................... Hyogo 兵庫県 
尼崎市 Amagasaki city

O-Kiku mushi お菊虫 O-Kiku becomes an insect

The story of the Sara Yashiki is also tole in Amagasaki.
O-Kiku became a Kiku-Mushi insect and finally a butterfly.

. Sara yashiki 皿屋敷 "the Dish Mansion" .
where the ghost of O-Kiku comes out of a well.



.......................................................................................... Niigata 新潟県 
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中頚城郡 Nagakubiki district 吉川町 Yokawa town

At a nadare 雪崩 avalanche of a steep mountain, many people died. Their souls came back to the homes as butterflies and danced around the main pillar of the home.




.......................................................................................... Tokushima 徳島県 
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那賀郡 Naka district 上那賀町 Kaminaka town

. hebi 蛇と伝説 Legends about snakes and serpents .
Above the jabuchi 蛇淵 "serpent river pool" there is a house, where there has been no ill or wounded person in many years.
There lived a beautiful daughter in the house. At night she would leave the door open and sleep with any man coming near her. But his body was always cold.
One night she stuck a needle with a string into the robes of the man and then followed the lead, to the river pool.
Later she became pregnant and was ready to give birth. When they placed her bloody robes into a barrel of water, there were all small serpents in the water.
They emptied the barrel into the bamboo grove nearvy and a beautiful butterfly flew away.
The daughter had died.



.......................................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県 
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南都留郡 Minami-Tsuru district 平野村 Hirano village

Someone killed a girl of 8 years. This year during the Bon rituals for the ancestors a butterfly came and sat on the ritual rice offerings.
The butterfly just did not want to leave the home. It was the soul of the girl.

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