2 Jan 2019

GOKURAKU - Kanimanji temple

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Kanimanji 蟹満寺 Kaniman-Ji, Kyoto "Crab Temple"
Kani-Manji

京都府木津川市山城町綺田（かばた） / Hama-36 Yamashirocho Kabata, Kizugawa, Kyoto

The temple houses one of the four great seated bronze Buddha statues.

The statue is 2.403m high. It is made of 金銅 gilt bronze and weighs about 2 tons.
It was made maybe even before the 奈良時代 Nara period. It is one of the four bronze statues.
The other three statues from the same period are
丈六金銅仏は飛鳥大仏 Asuka Daibutsu
興福寺仏頭 Kofukuji
薬師如来坐像 Shaka Nyorai

The temple used to have a large compound in the Nara period, but now only the main hall with the statue is left, surrounded by the village.

Not related to the statue is the founding legend of the crabs killing a serpent.

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Founded before the Nara period and located in the Yamashiro area of Kyoto prefecture, Kaniman-ji Temple is known for its magnificent 2.67 meter bronze sculpture of Shaka Nyorai.
The temple's founding legend tells of a broken promise and a snake that was killed by crabs.

Carving of a crab and snake on the side of the Kannon-do at Kanimanji Temple.
- source : taleofgenji.org...

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shuin 朱印　stamp

omamori お守り crab amulet

- Homepage of the temple
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木津川市 Kizugawa city 山城町 Yamashiro town

Once upon a time
there was a very beautiful young girl. Once the villagers had captured a lot of crabs and wanted to eat them. The girl took pity on the animals and exchanged them for fish to save them.
The next day the father of the girl saw a snake trying to swallow a toad. The snake said it would let go of the toad if he gave his daughter in exchange. He agreed.
So the snake let go of the toad.
That night a young man came to the home, saying he wanted to keep the promise of the day. Father said he had not talked to his daughter about it and sent him away.
When the daughter learned of the promise, she sat in front of the Buddhist family altar and began reciting the Sutra scriptures.

A serpent came into the room and when the villagers opened the door next morning, the girl was safe.
The serpent had been bitten to death by hundreds of crabs.
The villagers built a temple to honor this event, the 蟹満寺 Kaniman-Ji.

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相楽郡 Soraku district 棚倉村 Tanakura village

The same story as above is told about a seven-year old girl and the serpent trying to eat a frog.

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. hebi 蛇と伝説 Legends about snakes and serpents .

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MINGEI - gashapon capsule toys

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gashapon ガシャポン capsule toys

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The terms gashapon (ガシャポン) or gachapon (ガチャポン) refer to a variety of vending machine-dispensed capsule toys popular in Japan and elsewhere.
"Gashapon" is onomatopoeic from the two Japanese sounds: "gasha" (or "gacha") for the hand-cranking action of a toy-vending machine, and "pon" for the toy capsule landing in the collection tray.
Gashapon is used for both the machines themselves and the toys obtained from them. Popular gashapon manufacturers include Tomy, which uses the shortened term Gacha (ガチャ gacha) for their capsule machines, and Kaiyodo. In the United States, "Gashapon" is a registered trademark of the Bandai Company, and gashapon are generally referred to as blind box sets. The gashapon model has been adapted digitally into numerous gacha video games such as mobile phone games and massively multiplayer online games (MMOs).
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Gashapon machines are similar to the coin-operated toy vending machines seen outside grocery stores and other retailers in other countries. While American coin-operated vending toys are usually cheap, low-quality products sold for a few quarters (US$1 or less), Japanese gashapon can cost anywhere from ¥100–500 (US$1–6) and are normally a much higher-quality product. They are often constructed from high-grade PVC plastic, and contain more molding detail and intricately painted features. Many gashapon are considered collector's items, with rare ones fetching extremely high prices in secondhand markets. .....

- Blind-boxes
In recent years, the term gashapon has also come to refer to blind-box trading figures, which are essentially the same product sold randomly out of sealed packages instead of a machine.
- Bottle cap figures
Another variety of gashapon is bottle cap figures. These small figures are mounted atop a plastic bottle cap, as might be found on a twenty-ounce soda bottle. They are sold both in machine capsules and blind boxes. The caps are not functional as they lack screw threads to secure them to the mouth of the bottle.
- Mini games
- Gacha-expanded games
- Gacha mechanic ... long list
- Gacha games
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gashapon Daruma だるまのガチャポン

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gashapon Daruma mikuji fortune-telling sacred lots
だるまのガチャポン「だるみくじ」

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Gashapon Daruma and Fortune Cat

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30 Dec 2018

GOKURAKU - Koyakushizo

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Koyakushizoo 香薬師像 Koyakushi-Zo Statue, Ko-Yakushi
at 新薬師寺 the Shin-Yakushiji temple, Nara

香薬師像の右手失われたみほとけの行方
貴田正子 Kida Masako

Koyakushizo was a gilded wooden statue of the 白鳳 Hakuho period, and 国宝 a National Treasure.
It was so beautiful everyone thought it was of pure gold
So it was stolen twice in the Meiji period.
The first thief fell on his way out of the temple and the hand broke off. Then he realized it was only a wooden piece and left the hand behind.
The statue was found and brought back for repair.
Then it was stolen again . . . and brought back for repair.
Then it was stolen a third time in 1943, this time it was not found.
It was later removed from the list of National Treasures.

Kida Masako spent many years in search of the statue and has written a book about it.
It reads like a mystery novel, but it is all real.
Her story was even featured on TV.

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奈良・新薬師寺の香薬師立像は、旧国宝に指定され、白鳳の最高傑作と言われていた美仏。あまりの美しさから「金無垢でできている」という噂がたち、明治時代に2度盗まれたが、手足を切られ、純金製でないことが分かると2度とも道端に捨てられているのが発見され、寺に戻った。そして昭和18年、3回目の盗難に遭う。
「国宝香薬師盗難事件」は、戦時中の新聞にも報じられ、仏像ファンたちに大きな衝撃を与えた。2度盗まれて戻ってきた像だったが、今回ばかりは発見されず、未だ行方が分からない。
この行方不明の香薬師を見つけ出そうと、元産経新聞の記者である著者が取材を開始。新薬師寺住職の全面的な協力を得た調査では、まるでミステリー小説を地で行くような展開に。その結果、衝撃の新事実が発覚。ついに、「本物の右手」の存在をつかむ……。
- source : amazon.co.jp...

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Shakadoo 釈迦堂 Shaka Hall
The Shaka Hall was newly built in 1976 in order to enshrine the Buddhist statue of "Hakuho Shakanyorai Izo (Hakuhobutsu)" that is a National Important Cultural Property in Japan.
The statue of "Hakuho Shakanyorai Izo" is a Buddhist image that was created in the Hakuho period (673 – 686): the time classification of Japanese art history, such as in the late Asuka era (592 – 710).
It was the principal image of the Jindaiji temple when it was established.

... Also, it is a biggest as a gilt bronze statue of the Buddha in Japan: the sitting height is 60.6cm and the height is 83.5cm.
... The baby face and the line connected to the nose from the eyebrow represents the features of the Hakuho period.
Unfortunately, the gold leaf on the statue that was used to be was destroyed by fire.
We can see the similar expression in the statues of "Koyakushi-zo" at Shinyakushiji temple
and the statue of "Yumetagai Kannnon-zo" at Horyuji temple in Nara district.
These three Buddhist statues represent this era and are called "Three Hakuho Buddhist statues".
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26 Dec 2018

HEIAN - typhus legends

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typhus legends

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chifusu to densetsu チフスと伝説 Legends about typhus
chifusu チフス typhus // parachifusu 腸チフス - パラチフス typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever

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Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include
epidemic typhus, scrub typhus and murine typhus.
Common symptoms include fever, headache, and a rash. Typically these begin one to two weeks after exposure.
The diseases are caused by specific types of bacterial infection.
Epidemic typhus is due to Rickettsia prowazekii spread by body lice, scrub typhus is due to Orientia tsutsugamushi spread by chiggers, and murine typhus is due to Rickettsia typhi spread by fleas.
..... Scrub typhus occurs in Southeast Asia, Japan, and northern Australia.
..... Typhus has been described since at least 1528 AD. The name comes from the Greek tûphos (τύφος) meaning hazy, describing the state of mind of those infected. While "typhoid" means "typhus-like", typhus and typhoid fever are distinct diseases caused by different types of bacteria.
----- Signs and symptoms begin with sudden onset of fever, and other flu-like symptoms about one to two weeks after being infected. Five to nine days after the symptoms have started, a rash typically begins on the trunk and spreads to the extremities. This rash eventually spreads over most of the body, sparing the face, palms, and soles. Signs of meningoencephalitis begin with the rash and continue into the second or third weeks. Other signs of meningoencephalitis include sensitivity to light (photophobia), altered mental status (delirium), or coma. Untreated cases are often fatal.
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............................................................................... Fukushima 福島県

zokushin 俗信 some folk belief
The bones of a horse charred all black are good at lowering fever. They are eaten in case of paratyphus.

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大船渡市 Ofunato city 三陸町 Sanriku town

boorei 亡霊 ghost
Once the master of the house had died of typhus. His son carried the remains of his father to the second floor of the barn and left it there.
The next evening, the ghost of his father appeared, only visible to the son. So the son called a priest and had proper rituals performed. After that he did not see the ghost of his father again.

............................................................................... Kagoshima 鹿児島県
西之表市 Nishinoomote city

wakamiya sama 若宮様 Wakamiya "Young Lord"
In 1924, there was a paratypuus epidemy in a hamlet. Many thought it was the curse of a Deity.
They went to the beach of 東海岸 Higashi Kaigan to a monoshiri モノシリ（巫女）Miko Shrine maiden for a divination. She went into trance and made the performance of someone killed by an arrow and decaying. In fact, the killed person was Wakamiya.
Wakamiya was the son of the local lord of 志布志 Shibushi. During a fight over the land he had been to the other side of the river and been killed by an arrow.
Wakamiya was then declared a deity and venerated in a special Shrine.

............................................................................... Nagano 長野県

. moriki 杜樹 tree of a shrine .
On the pass of 吉田山 Mount Yoshidayama ...

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佐渡市 Sado city 畑野町 Hatano machi town

ta-asobi 田遊び ritual of the fields
This Ta-asobi Shinto ritual of 畑野町大久保 Hatano town, Okubo, was first performed outside in the early Showa period. It was performed at the school in 畑野町後山 Hatano Ushiroyama.

But the same year there was a bad harvest in the hamlet of Okubo, an outbreak of paratyphus and other problems.

Ta'asobi -Literally, "rice-field play."
Ta'asobi sometimes takes place during the actual rice-planting season, but generally it occurs at the start of the year.
- source : kokugakuin . Mogi Sakae -
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............................................................................... Okayama 岡山県
.......................................................................真庭郡 Maniwa district 落合町 Ochiai town

Zenkaku Inari Shrine 善覚稲荷
Once there was a typhus epidemy in the town, so people went to the Shrine Zenkaku Inaru to pray for healing.

In former times the Shrine was called 善覚神社 Zenkaku Jinja.
古くは社号を「善覚神社」と申し上げていた神社で、昔　小山善覚坊という修験者がおり、この善覚坊が伏見稲荷から勧請した稲荷神を拝み、霊感を使ってましたが、神の力が強くなり過ぎ、善覚坊の力では抑えきれなくなり、現在の奥宮と木山寺の間に社を建てて祀ったのが「善覚神社」の始まりと言われています。

御祭神は倉稲魂命（うかのみたまのみこと）を始め、赤衾衣奴大住日子佐別命（あかぶすまいぬおおすみひこさわけのみこと）また、合祀した木山八幡神社の神や稲作に関わる神々五柱、猿田彦神など、計九柱の神々を祭神としています。
木山神社と同様に、善覚稲荷神社の霊験のたかさも古来より有名で、江戸末期から明治にかけて県内各地に善覚稲荷の信仰は広がっていきました。

岡山県真庭市木山1265-1
HP of the shrine
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Kiyamadera 木山寺 Kiyama Temple

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新見市 Niimi city 哲西町 Tessei cho town

Once they cut a maki no ki マキの木 / 犬槇 Podocarpus macrophyllus sacred to 荒神 the Kojin Deity and soon there was a typhus epidemy in the village.
This must have been the curse of Kojin Sama.

. Koojin sama 荒神様 Kojin, Aragami, "Wild Deity" .

............................................................................... Shimane 島根県
shookan 傷寒（チフス）Shokan, local name for typhus
kaze 傷寒（かぜ）
There once was a wicked priest named Shokan who could bewitch other people and make them suffer from typus.

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Once after the war, the villagers went to a temple for rituals. An unknown man turned up and wanted to go with them.
Later they realized that about 30 years ago, there was a man who did not perform proper rituals for his dead father and had then died himself just before a typhus epidemy hit the village.

............................................................................... Tokyo Arakawa 荒川区

Once the younger sister of 新井つね Arai Tsune had typhus. In her dream she saw a priest in red robes who told her:
"If you go in this direction, you will die."
As the woman lie in high fever, she heard the voice of her crying baby and came back to her senses. Gradually she healed completely.

............................................................................... Toyama 富山県
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礪波市 Tonami city

saen サエゾ（腸チフス）: local name for typhus
saenbon サエゾボン
This is the local name for 坊さん a priest who performs to drive out a typhus epidemy.

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22 Dec 2018

EDO - Ueno Taito ward

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Ueno Taito ward

Posted: 15 Dec 2018 10:01 PM PST

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Ueno 上野 Ueno district
Taito ward

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... best known as the home of Ueno Station and Ueno Park.
Ueno is also home to some of Tokyo's finest cultural sites, including the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art, and the National Science Museum, as well as a major public concert hall. Many Buddhist temples are in the area, including the Bentendo temple dedicated to goddess Benzaiten, on an island in Shinobazu Pond. The Kanei-ji, a major temple of the Tokugawa shoguns, stood in this area, and its pagoda is now within the grounds of the Ueno Zoo. Nearby is the Ueno Tōshōgū, a Shinto shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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. Ameyoko あめよこ (アメ横) Ueno .

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上野山した」 Uenoyama Shita
歌川広重 Utagawa Hiroshige 名所江戸百景 Meisho Edo Hyakkei

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清水堂 Ueno Kiyomizudo

上野東照宮 Snow at Toshogu in Ueno

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夕涼や草臥に出る上野山
yuusuzu ya kutabire ni deru Ueno yama

evening cool--
weariness sets in
on Ueno Hill
Tr. David Lanoue

. yuusuzumi 夕涼み enjoy a cool evening breeze .
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Hatchobori district Chuo

Posted: 15 Dec 2018 08:41 PM PST

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Hatchoobori, Hatchōbori 八丁堀 Hatchobori moat
中央区, Chuo ward, 八丁堀一丁目　ー八丁堀四丁目 from the first to the fourth sub-district
former 旧京橋区 Kyobashi ward. / Hachobori / Hacchōbori / Hacchobori

lit. moat of 872 m length. canal of 8 cho
Location of the police barracks in Edo.

八丁堀川（桜川）　River Hatchoborigawa (Sakuragawa)

The original spelling was
八町堀 canal of 8 cho (one cho was about 109 meters).
丁 is a simplified later version of 町.
A lot of the canal was filled in around 1955.

Around 1635, many temples of this area moved to Asakusa. Their land was used for the police barracks.
Since the public baths in Edo became quite popular and always crowded, the police constables were allowed to use the baths for women at any time.

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Tsukiji Hatchobori Nihonbashi-minami ezu　
築地八町堀日本橋南絵図
- source : National Diet Library

Teppozu Inari-bashi
Teppozu Inari Fujimode

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Hatchobori Nana Fushigi 八丁堀七不思議 Seven Wonders of Hatchobori

police constables at Hatchobori

奥様あって殿様あり the wive of a police constable was Okusama, her husband Tonosama
女湯の刀掛け sword racks in the public bath for women (used by the constables)
金で首が継げる a head fixed with gold
地獄の中の極楽橋 the paradise bridge in the prison hell
貧乏小路に提灯かけ横町 an alley of the poor with lanterns at night
寺があって墓がない a Buddhist temple but no graves
医者儒者犬の糞 many doctors and Confucian scholars lived here (as many as dog's shit on the road)

. Edo Nana Fushigi 江戸七不思議 The Seven Wonders of Edo .

. Legends from Hatchobori .

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Hatchobori no Shichinin 八丁堀の七人 The Hatchōbori Seven
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Seven samurai constables in Edo who solve crimes and help keep law and order in the district of Hatchobori,

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江戸名所図会　Edo Meisho Zue

bridge over the Sakuragawa 桜川支流鮫川 (八丁堀川)　River Hatchoborigawa .

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菊の花咲くや石屋の石の間
kiku no hana saku ya ishiya no ishi no ai

chrysanthemums blooming -
in a stonemason's yard
amid the stones
Tr. Barnhill

chrysanthemum flowers
are blossoming - amongst the stones
of a stonemason's
Tr. Greve

Matsuo Basho　松尾芭蕉
at the Hatchobori canal 八丁堀, Edo.
This area of the town was known for its stonemasons, because the stones could be transported by ship on the canal. Even in these harsh surroundings, some chrysanthemums had made their way to flowering.

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短日や八丁堀の露地の中
tanjitsu ya Hatchobori no roji no naka

days getting shorter -
in the small alleys of
Hatchobori
Tr. Gabi Greve

久保田万太郎 Kubota Mantaro

. short day, days getting shorter, mijika hi, tanjitsu 短日　
- - kigo for winter - -

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. hibashira 火柱と伝説 Legends about a pillar of fire .

. hi no tama 火の玉と伝説 Legends about fire balls .

. kaika 怪火 fireball, atmospheric ghost lights yokai from Shiga and Kyoto. .
and Abura-bo 油坊 the Oil Priest
. kaika 怪火 ghost fire at Nerima 練馬区 Tokyo .

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. Tengubi 天狗火 a Yokai / Tengu no hi 天狗の火 Tengu fire .
Tengubi is a fireball phenomenon.

At the time of 天武天皇 Tenmu Tenno (? - 686)
星 stars were falling down in the Eastern direction.
In 737 in the fifth lunar month, many 星 stars came flying by very low.
In 771 星 stars were falling down in the South-Western direction . . .
, , , and more such events are known.
It looked like some 火気 fire falling from the sky and many said it must have been a Tengu.

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yuurei 幽霊 ghost
Once 太閤秀吉 Toyotomi Hideyoshi was having a tea party when suddenly he saw
the ghost of 利休 Sen no Rikyu sitting by the side of the stove.
There was a strange sparkle in his eyes and 呼吸に火気 fire came out of his mouth when he was breathing.
Hideyoshi rebuked him, saying this was impolite, so the ghost went sitting a bit further away.
When Hideyoshi left the 数奇屋 tea room he asked his servant to keep an eye of Rikyu, but as the servant looked, Rikyu had disappeared.

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. Legends about Akagisan, Akagiyama 赤城山 .

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磐田市 Iwata city

Mitsuke Tenjin 見付天神
At 東海道の見付宿 the postal station of Mitsuke on the Tokaido Highway they celebrate the Festival at 天満宮 the Tenmangu Shrine, where the 神輿 Mikoshi palanquin with the deity is carried out at night. During this ritual, people are not allowed to make fire.
They are not allowed to talk aloud, otherwise they might experience bad luck and disaster in the coming year.

Yanahime Shrine (Mitsuke Tenjin Shrine)
1114-2 Mitsuke, Iwata City

- HP of the Shrine - 矢奈比賣神社（やなひめじんじゃ）
- reference source : mitsuke-tenjin.com...-

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Mitsuke Tenjin Naked Festival
This is a chain of festivals held following the event in which the principal god Yanahime no Mikoto is moved to Omi Kunitama Shrine, a Soja shrine (a shrine enshrining several gods) in Totomi Province.
It is held on Saturday and Sunday before August 10 according to the lunar calendar. Naked men wearing straw coats parade around Mitsuke district. It is called the Naked Festival because the boisterous dance at the worshipping hall of the Mitsuke Tenjin Shrine. The best time of the festival is from 21:00 to midnight on the first day.
About 1,000 naked men surge into the worshipping hall of the Mitsuke Tenjin Shrine. The Oni (ogre) Dance is grand and it reaches the climax at midnight.
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. Yanahime Jinja 矢奈比売神社 .
and
霊犬早太郎伝説 The legend of the spiritual dog Hayataro

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At the foot of the 立山 Tateyama mountain range there is a bridge over the river 岩倉川 Iwakuragawa.
People form other domains of Edo-period Japan could not cross it easily.
They called the river 三途の大川 Sanzu no Okawa, Great River to The Other World.
The mountains to the East of the river were called Shide no Yama 死出の山, Mountain where people die.
There was always some kind of fire to see at its top, so this must be jigoku 地獄 the Hell.

. Sanzu no Kawa 三途の川 River Sanzu, the river on the way to hell .

. Tateyama Shinkō　立山信仰 Tateyama mountain worship .

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高岡市 Takaoka city

Harumi matsuri 晴見祭り Harumi festival
For the festival the villagers have to capture four hebi 蛇 serpents. The serpent which is captured the first is called
oharemi, O-Haremi オハレミ.
It is put in a container and kept well.
On an auspicious day 卯月中の巳の日 in the fourth lunar month there is a divination ritual.

蛇が箱から顔を出さないと晴天が多く、蛇が箱から顔を出してしきりに舌を出すと火気が多く、蛇が箱から出て床の上に下りたときは雨が多く、蛇が箱から出て案を下りないときは風が強いという。蛇は捕まえてきた者が元のところで放すが、この時蛇の行方を見ると、卜占が変わってしまうといわれている。

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Takaoka Mikuruma-yama Festival
The Takaoka mikuruma-yamas (wheeled float) carried in this festival are apparently based on the court carriage used by Hideyoshi Toyotomi to welcome Emperor Go-Yozei and Retired Emperor Ogimachi to Jurakudai in 1588.
After Toshie Maeda received it as a gift, Toshinaga Maeda gave it to the townspeople in 1609 when he was building Takaoka Castle. A barrel roof was added to the carriage to make the current mikurama-yama.
Supported by the spirit and wealth of the Takaoka townspeople, this is one of Japan's most gorgeous hikiyama festival floats, with wheels decorated using superb local craft techniques, such as metalwork, lacquer ware and dyeing.
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