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. Shinto Shrines (jinja 神社) - Introduction .
. kami 神 Shinto deities .
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kaze no kami 風邪の神 Deity of the common cold
kaze no kamisama かぜの神様
Sekigamisama 咳神様 Deity of coughing
source : yokai.com/kazenokami - Matthew Meyer
Kami of the Wind,
but since January 2020, also bringing the Coronavirus Kaze Influenze thread all over the world.
. kaze 風邪 (かぜ) common cold .
and its season words
. hayariyamai はやり病 / 流行病と伝説 Legends about epidemics .
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The word kaze 風邪 can also be read fuuja ふうじゃ.
In this case the deity is called go-fuuja sama ごふうじゃ様 Go-Fuja Sama.
If he comes to a person, this person will catch a cold.
The human body has a special acupuncture point called
fuumon 風門 "gate for the cold wind"
and this is where the Deity of the common cold comes into a body.
Keeping this part of the body warm will prevent the Deity to come in.
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Kaze no Kami okuri 風邪の神送り Seeing off the deity of catching a cold
Rakugo story, told by 3代目桂米朝、8代目林家正蔵など。
In the Edo period many people lost their lives catching a cold.
If there was a bad cold epidemy in town, people performed a ritual to send the Deity off. They made a small paper figure of the deity and carried if off to the border of their village or town with music of drums and gongs. The paper figure could also be floated away in a river or at the beach.
Once a group went to do that and chanted
"Let's see him off, fast, let's see him off, the Deity of catching cold!"
But there was one person in the village who regretted this act.
It was the local kusuriya 薬屋 drugstore (or the local doctor).
Once the villagers came together to sent the Deity off with great effort, floating it down the river, but 夜 that night it got caught in the ami 網 net of a fisherman and thus came back.
What had happened?
It got caught at night (yo 夜) in a net (ami 網) - a pun with yowami 弱み weakness.
. rakugo 落語 comic storytelling .
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. kaze 風邪と伝説 Legends about catching a cold .
The character for kaze 風 means wind.
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. kooshin 庚申伝説 Legends about the Koshin Cult .
The Koshin Deity 庚申さん Koshin San is also seen as Kaze no Kami 風邪の神 the Deity of catching cold.
for example in Shiga 滋賀県
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. Shrine, Shinto Shrine (jinja 神社) - Introduction .
. kami 神 Shinto deities - ABC-LIST - .
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- - - - - H A I K U - - - - -
なやらひをすませて憑かる風邪の神
角川源義 Kadogawa Genyoshi (1917 - 1975)
なにもせざれば風邪の神にも会はざりき
星野麥丘人 Hoshino Bokugyujin (1925 - 2013)
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. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .
....................................................................... Ehime 愛媛県 .....
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今治市 Imabara 玉川町 Tamagawa
. kotatsu heater and day of the Inoko 亥の子 wild boar .
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Ehime 伊予郡 Io district 砥部町 Tobe town
. Sai no Kami 幸神 / 幸の神 / さいの神 Deity of Fortune and Good Luck .
When Sai no Kami was sleeping by the roadside, one of his legs was cut off by a car and he had to live with one leg only.
Therefore as an offering for the New Year and 盆 O-Bon for the ancestors people make only one zoori 草履 straw sandal.
Sai no Kami is also seen as 風邪の神 Kaze no Kami.
....................................................................... Kyoto 京都府 .....
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天田郡 Amata district 三和町 Miwa town
風邪の神 Kaze no Kami is also seen as 庚申さん Koshin san.
When a child is healed from hashika はしか the measles, people pack some nigiri おにぎり rice ball offerings in straw and bring them to his shrine.
....................................................................... Miyazaki 宮崎県 .....
.......................................................................
東臼杵郡 Higashi-Usuki district 西郷村 Nishigo village
. neko 猫 / ねこ と伝説 Legends about cats, Katzen .
Once an old hag living with her family killed the cat by throwing it under the usu 臼 mortar.
But the family became cursed and to make up for it venerated the cat in a small shrine in the garden as
猫神様 Kami of cats
風邪の神様 Kami against the cold
乳が出る神様 Kami to make mothers milk flow.
....................................................................... Osaka 大阪府 .....
.......................................................................
岸和田市 Kishiwada city
Once there lived a poor man in a run-down house.
One day in winter he caught a cold. He roasted some surume スルメ squid and drunk some sake 酒 rice wine, when suddenly an old man came out of the closet and left the house.
Well, the old man was 風邪の神 Kaze no Kami, who can not stand the smell of roasted squid. The man wa healed in no time.
....................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県 .....
During a cold epidemic, people press the hand of a small child on a red piece of paper and write
「吉三さんはおりません」 Kichizo san is not here. Thjs is hung at the entrance, to prevent the Deity of the common cold from coming into the home.
They say when Yaoya no O-Shichi 八百屋お七 Greengrocer's Daughter Oshichi was in love with Kichizo and died from her love, she became Kaze no Kami 風邪の神 Deity of the common cold.
She walks around the village looking for Kichizo, but if there is a red piece of paper she realizes that this is not her Kichizo and goes away.
. Yaoya no O-Shichi 八百屋お七 Greengrocer's Daughter Oshichi .
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- reference : nichibun yokai database -
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kaze catching cold kami legends
. Shinto Shrines (jinja 神社) - Introduction .
. kami 神 Shinto deities .
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
kaze no kami 風邪の神 Deity of the common cold
kaze no kamisama かぜの神様
Sekigamisama 咳神様 Deity of coughing
source : yokai.com/kazenokami - Matthew Meyer
Kami of the Wind,
but since January 2020, also bringing the Coronavirus Kaze Influenze thread all over the world.
. kaze 風邪 (かぜ) common cold .
and its season words
. hayariyamai はやり病 / 流行病と伝説 Legends about epidemics .
..............................................................................................................................................
The word kaze 風邪 can also be read fuuja ふうじゃ.
In this case the deity is called go-fuuja sama ごふうじゃ様 Go-Fuja Sama.
If he comes to a person, this person will catch a cold.
The human body has a special acupuncture point called
fuumon 風門 "gate for the cold wind"
and this is where the Deity of the common cold comes into a body.
Keeping this part of the body warm will prevent the Deity to come in.
.......................................................................
Kaze no Kami okuri 風邪の神送り Seeing off the deity of catching a cold
Rakugo story, told by 3代目桂米朝、8代目林家正蔵など。
In the Edo period many people lost their lives catching a cold.
If there was a bad cold epidemy in town, people performed a ritual to send the Deity off. They made a small paper figure of the deity and carried if off to the border of their village or town with music of drums and gongs. The paper figure could also be floated away in a river or at the beach.
Once a group went to do that and chanted
"Let's see him off, fast, let's see him off, the Deity of catching cold!"
But there was one person in the village who regretted this act.
It was the local kusuriya 薬屋 drugstore (or the local doctor).
Once the villagers came together to sent the Deity off with great effort, floating it down the river, but 夜 that night it got caught in the ami 網 net of a fisherman and thus came back.
What had happened?
It got caught at night (yo 夜) in a net (ami 網) - a pun with yowami 弱み weakness.
. rakugo 落語 comic storytelling .
..............................................................................................................................................
. kaze 風邪と伝説 Legends about catching a cold .
The character for kaze 風 means wind.
..............................................................................................................................................
. kooshin 庚申伝説 Legends about the Koshin Cult .
The Koshin Deity 庚申さん Koshin San is also seen as Kaze no Kami 風邪の神 the Deity of catching cold.
for example in Shiga 滋賀県
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
. Shrine, Shinto Shrine (jinja 神社) - Introduction .
. kami 神 Shinto deities - ABC-LIST - .
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- - - - - H A I K U - - - - -
なやらひをすませて憑かる風邪の神
角川源義 Kadogawa Genyoshi (1917 - 1975)
なにもせざれば風邪の神にも会はざりき
星野麥丘人 Hoshino Bokugyujin (1925 - 2013)
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .
....................................................................... Ehime 愛媛県 .....
.......................................................................
今治市 Imabara 玉川町 Tamagawa
. kotatsu heater and day of the Inoko 亥の子 wild boar .
.......................................................................
Ehime 伊予郡 Io district 砥部町 Tobe town
. Sai no Kami 幸神 / 幸の神 / さいの神 Deity of Fortune and Good Luck .
When Sai no Kami was sleeping by the roadside, one of his legs was cut off by a car and he had to live with one leg only.
Therefore as an offering for the New Year and 盆 O-Bon for the ancestors people make only one zoori 草履 straw sandal.
Sai no Kami is also seen as 風邪の神 Kaze no Kami.
....................................................................... Kyoto 京都府 .....
.......................................................................
天田郡 Amata district 三和町 Miwa town
風邪の神 Kaze no Kami is also seen as 庚申さん Koshin san.
When a child is healed from hashika はしか the measles, people pack some nigiri おにぎり rice ball offerings in straw and bring them to his shrine.
....................................................................... Miyazaki 宮崎県 .....
.......................................................................
東臼杵郡 Higashi-Usuki district 西郷村 Nishigo village
. neko 猫 / ねこ と伝説 Legends about cats, Katzen .
Once an old hag living with her family killed the cat by throwing it under the usu 臼 mortar.
But the family became cursed and to make up for it venerated the cat in a small shrine in the garden as
猫神様 Kami of cats
風邪の神様 Kami against the cold
乳が出る神様 Kami to make mothers milk flow.
....................................................................... Osaka 大阪府 .....
.......................................................................
岸和田市 Kishiwada city
Once there lived a poor man in a run-down house.
One day in winter he caught a cold. He roasted some surume スルメ squid and drunk some sake 酒 rice wine, when suddenly an old man came out of the closet and left the house.
Well, the old man was 風邪の神 Kaze no Kami, who can not stand the smell of roasted squid. The man wa healed in no time.
....................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県 .....
During a cold epidemic, people press the hand of a small child on a red piece of paper and write
「吉三さんはおりません」 Kichizo san is not here. Thjs is hung at the entrance, to prevent the Deity of the common cold from coming into the home.
They say when Yaoya no O-Shichi 八百屋お七 Greengrocer's Daughter Oshichi was in love with Kichizo and died from her love, she became Kaze no Kami 風邪の神 Deity of the common cold.
She walks around the village looking for Kichizo, but if there is a red piece of paper she realizes that this is not her Kichizo and goes away.
. Yaoya no O-Shichi 八百屋お七 Greengrocer's Daughter Oshichi .
..............................................................................................................................................
- reference : nichibun yokai database -
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[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ]
- #kazenokami #sekigami #fujasama #fumon -
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