KAIDO - Miyagi Kaido highways

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Miyagi Prefecture and Kaido Highway Legends

. Kaido 街道と伝説 Legends about the old Kaido highways .

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みやぎ県南浜街道（宮城県) Miyagi Kennan Hamakaido
Kaido along the beach in South Miyagi

- reference source : japanecotrack.net... -


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宮城県の旧街道と宿場町名 Postal stations along the old Kaido in Miyagi
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......................................................................................... Aramakiyama Kaido 荒巻山街道

. Aramaki no Monju 荒巻の文殊 Aramaki no Monju Bosatsu .




......................................................................................... Azuma Kaido 東街道
仙台市 Sendai City 青葉区 Aoba

kitsune 狐 fox
In Sendai there lived a foot soldier called 勝又弥左衛門 Katsumata Yazaemon. He was famous for catching foxes.
Once he was at the foot of 榴ヶ岡 Tsutsujigaoka along the Azuma Kaido. There lived anold fox who took the chicken from farmers and played tricks to travelers.
On orders from the local government Yazaemon had to kill this fox.
Yazaemon was in mourning for his late father (and there fore should not do this), but the governor came many times. Yozaemon consulted with his friend, a priest who told him he should not kill during the 49 daya after this father's death.
The priest then took him out for a drink and ate quite a lot, much more than usual. Yazaemon found this suspicious, went outside and placed a trap near the door.
When the priest went home, he got caught in the trap.
The fox/priest had tried to out-do a human, but was caught none the less.

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .





......................................................................................... Hippo Kaido 筆甫街道
伊具郡 丸森町 Hippo Marumori, Igu District, Miyagi / ひっぽ村 Hippo village




bateiseki 馬蹄石 stone with imprints of a horse hoof
When Jigaku Daishi rode along the Hippo Kaido toward 不動滝 the Fudo Waterfall he rode on a white horse and jumped over the river.
Water collecting in the imprint of the hooves is said to heal illness of the eyes.


- reference source and more photos: zuiunzi.net/igu... -

. Ennin -　Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 / 慈覺大師 (794 – 864) .

. 駒場滝不動尊 Komabataki Waterfall and Fudo Myo-O .
- Temple 愛敬院 Aikyo-In / 宮城県伊具郡丸森町字不動 / Kamidakinishi, Marumori, Igu District, Miyagi

. hakuba 白馬と伝説 Legends about a white horse .

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Marumori no Tateishi 丸森の立石 "Standing Rock" of Marumori



About 2 km South-East of the center of Marumori town.
The rock is about 12,5 m high and has a diameter of 25 m. Legend knows that 安倍貞任 Abe no Sadato (1019 – 1062) stood on this rock.
There are also many earthware relics from the 弥生 Yayoi period.
This rock can be seen from the Hippo Highway all the way up to the waterfall.




........................................................................................ Iwadeyama Kaido 岩出山街道

Iwadeyama is a town located in Tamatsukuri District,
On March 31, 2006, Iwadeyama, along with the city of Furukawa, the town of Naruko (also from Tamatsukuri District), the towns of Kashimadai, Matsuyama and Sanbongi (all from Shida District), and the town of Tajiri (from Tōda District), was merged to create the city of Ōsaki. Tamatsukuri District and Shida District
- wikipedia

新八明神 Deity Shinpachi Myojin
Shinpachi was the second son of a farmer working for the Samurai 白石運三郎 Shiroishi Unsaburo. He worked diligently.
The wife of his older brother was quite a villain and was bad to her stepfather.
Around 1815, his sister-in-law prepared 大師講の団子 dumplings for the Daishi rituals and put some needles in them.
When Shinpachi offered a dumpling to his father, the needle stuck out. The sister-in-law went to the daikan 代官 assistant deputy governor and accused Shinpachi for having tried to kill his father. Shinpachi tried to cover for his sister-in-law, did not tell the truth and was executed as punishment.
Before he died he said: "If my head falls to the north when cut off, I am innocent and will curse you!"
Soon after that the family of Shinpachi fell into ruin.
The villagers erected a memorial stone for him along the Iwadeyama Highway near the river 花川 Hanakawa with the inscription "Shinpachi Myojin".




......................................................................................... Kakuda Kaido 角田街道
角田市 Kakuda city - in southeastern Miyagi. The Abukuma River flows through the city.
亘理町 Watari
The area of present-day Watari was part of ancient Mutsu Province, and the place name of "Watari" appears in the Shoku Nihongi chronicles dated 718 AD.
It was part of the holdings of Sendai Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate.

. kataha no ashi, kataba no ashi 片葉の芦 One-sided Reed .
and Kamakura Kagemasa 鎌倉景正



Miyagi Otogi Kaido 宮城おとぎ街道 Fairy Tale Highway
宮城県の新観光街道
みちのくおとぎ街道 / ガッタリ花街道 / 宮城おとぎ街道 / 角田市
- reference source : tatu05060506.webcrow.jp... -

みちのくおとぎ街道 Michinoku Otogi Kaido
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......................................................................................... Kawasaki Kaido 川崎街道


- reference source : town.kawasaki.miyagi... -
01 川崎城址
02 圓長山円福寺
03 滝前不動のフジ
04 笹谷街道の松並木 Sasaya Kaido - see below
05 逆銀杏
06 青根御殿
07 野鳥の森自然公園
08 古賀政男歌碑

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柴田郡 Shibata district 村田町 Murata town

hisamesaka 火雨坂 / ヒサメサカ the slope Hisamesaka "rain like fire"
This slope is on the Kawasaki Kaido.
Once upon a time rain like fire came falling from the sky. It made many small holes into the rocks on the slope.
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onibaba 鬼婆 demon hag
To the West of 秋保温泉 the hot spring in 安達ヶ原 Adachigahara near 長袋 Nagafukuro hamlet there is a rock called 鬼婆の窯岩 "the Kiln Rock of the Mountain Hag".
This is the place where 平兼盛 Taira no Kanemori (? - 991) wrote the poem:
みちのくの安達ヶ原の黒塚 Michinoku no Adachigahara no kurozuka - the Black Mound

. 安達が原の鬼女伝説 Legend of the Demon Hag of Adachigahara .
and Matsuo Basho visiting there on his Oku no Hosomichi.

. onibaba 鬼婆 demon hag from Kawasaki .




......................................................................................... Kiso Kaido 木曾街道 / 木曽街道
仙台市 Sendai city 青葉区 Aoba
- Kiso Kaido is another name for the Nakasendo Highway.

munewari Amida 胸割り阿弥陀 Amida with a cut breast
Once upon a time
A priest from the temple 充国寺 Jukoku-Ji in Aoba was on his way back from Kyoto along the Kiso Highway. Suddenly a robber attacked him, but a tree at the roadside fell down and killed the robber. The priest could not forget the piercing look of hatred of the man. When he was back at his temple, a baby had been born to a family of his parish and he went there for a blessing. He picked up the baby and when he looked at his face, it had exactly the expression of the robber on the highway. The priest was so afraid, he killed the baby.
Therefore he was to be executed and take to 七北田刑場 the execution ground in Nanakita. When the executioners came to pick him up, all the 小僧 little temple acolytes cried as they sent him off. They went back to the main hall . . . as there was a lound sound of something crashing.
The statue of Amida had a cut right through the breast !

source : legend.main.jp/50-aobaku-008-munewariamida...
They sent the statue back to Kyoto to have it repaired, but when it was brought back the breast was cut again.
The statue could not be repaired and so it remained cut.

七北田刑場 the execution ground in Nanakita



- - - - - There is another story about Amida no munewari 阿弥陀胸割
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Amida's Riven Breast
R. Keller Kimbrough
Amida's Riven Breast (Amida no munewari) is classified as a ko-jōruri shōhon, but is also known to have been performed as sekkyō by Tenma Hachidayū and to be thematically consistent with the sekkyō of its time. This Buddhist tale is divided into six acts, the third act of which contains a battle scene. In Amida no munewari, the siblings Teirei and Tenju lose their parents at the ages of five and seven. Then when the brother Teirei is ten years old, he proposes to his elder sister that they sell themselves as slaves to a rich man. Tenju is eventually saved by her Buddhist devotion.
The story emphasizes the necessity of dan haramitsu practice of engaging religious professionals.
- reference source : columbia.university pressscholarship.com... -





......................................................................................... Oshu Kaido 奥州街道
柴田町 Shibata town - A postal station along the Oshu Highway.

. koromo no seki 衣ノ関 the gate of the robe (of Ono no Komachi) .




......................................................................................... Sasaya Kaido 笹谷街道
柴田郡 Shibata district 川崎町 Kawasaki town


- Details of the old highway -
10 六地蔵八丁平には鶏亀地蔵のほか、法印・地持・宝性・法性・陀羅尼の各地蔵が、遭難者の慰霊と道しるべとして、約80ｍおきにある。

kesagake Jizoo 袈裟掛地蔵 Jizo with a priests Kesa robe
Along the Sasaya Highway at the entry to Sasaya town there was 大入道 a large Nyudo monster coming out at night frightening the people.
The famous Samurai 三尺左五平 Sanshaku Sagohei from Sendai fought with him one night and cut his Kesa.
When they looked next morning, the Kesa of the Jizo statue was cut.

. Oonyuudoo 大入道 The O-Nyudo Monster .
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yamabushi 山伏 mountain priest
Once upon a time
on the Northern side of the river 名取川 Natorigawa, threr was a large enoki 大榎 nettle tree in the middle of the fields along the Sasaya Highway. It was a hinderance for the farmers and they decided to cut it down. But the next morning the site of the cut was healed and the tree back.
One day a huge Yamabushi came along, pulled the nettle tree out and carried it away.
Since then the field is called
一木田 "field with one tree" or 人来田 Hitokita.







......................................................................................... Sekiyama Kaido 関山街道
connecting 宮城県仙台市 Sendai, Miyagi and 山形県東根市 Higashine city in Yamagata
- reference source : sendai-oldlocal-histry... -



関山街道を宮城側では「関山越最上街道」called Sekiyama Kaido in Miyagi、
山形側では「仙台街道」called Sendai Kaido in Yamagata.
- source and more photos : my-michi.com... -

niwatoribashi 鶏橋 "rooster bridge"
A bridge over a gorge along the Sekiyama Kaido.
Every night a rooster came to sit on the rail and called out.
The bird came from the Osaki Hachiman Shrine, where it has taken life from a painting on an ema 絵馬 votive tablet.
They bound the votive tablet with metal ropes. But soon after that there was a great flooding, deatroying homes and killing people.
The bridge was now called "rooster bridge".

. 大崎八幡宮 Osaki Hachiman Shrine .

Dewa Sendai Kaido 出羽仙台街道
from Sendai to Sakata in Yamagata / Nakayamagoe　中山越 and 尿前 Shitomae



. Shitomae no Seki 尿前の関 Barrier of Shitomae .
奥の細道 Oku no Hosomichi, Matsuo Basho and the Dewagoe 出羽越え crossing over to Dewa





......................................................................................... Shiogama Kaido 塩釜街道


from Shiogama to Tagajo / 多賀城市 Tagajo city 市川 Ichikawa

ekibyoo 疫病 epidemic disease
tsubo no ishibumi at Tateishi 壷の碑を立石
Along the Shiogama Highway on the Western side of the remains of Tagajo castle there is a stone memorial that has fallen down, called
fuseishi, fuse ishi 伏せ石. People tried to erect it again, but usually it falls down soon and an epidemic will start.



".. it was nothing short of a miracle that this monument alone had survived the battering of a thousand years to be the living memory of the ancients."
. Matsuo Basho and Tsubo no Ishibumi .





......................................................................................... Shizugawa Kaido 志津川街道
本吉郡 Motoyoshi district 南三陸町 Minami-Sanriku town 五駄鱈 Gondatara
宮城県気仙沼市赤岩五駄鱈 Sendai Akaiwa Godantara
志津川町 Shizugawa-chō was a town located in Motoyoshi District, Miyagi.
On October 1, 2005, Shizugawa, along with the town of Utatsu (also from Motoyoshi District) was united to create the town of Minamisanriku,


source : env.go.jp/water/heisa...
- 志津川湾 map of Shizugsawa bay

gondara 五駄鱈 / ゴンダラ Gondara (Gondatara)
Once upon a time
in the town of 折立 Oritate along the Shizugawa High way near a small river there was the estate of a rich man. He had a beautiful daughter and many young men came to see her.
But the daughter became haggard and when they asked her nanny they found out what happened.
One evening they stuck a needle in the seam of her sleeve and then the family checked next morning they found blood stains leading to the small river. The river was bloody until its estuary and there lay a huge tara 鱈 cod fish. They needed goda 五駄 five horse loads to carry it and called this amazing fish
五駄鱈(ゴンダラ) Gondara.
The daughter threw herself into the river to kill herself and the river was called
dokugawa 毒川 poisonous river.
Since then the cod never came up the small river, but could be caught early in the neighbourhood of Oritate






 ......................................................................................... Toohoo - Toho Kaido 東方街道
白井市 Shiroi city 新館町 Shindate cho town - 東方 Higashikata

wazawai o nasu tochi 禍をなす土地 a plot of land that brings disaster
Along the Toho Kaido on the border between Shiroishi city and 大平村 Taihei village there was a plot of farmland called nanchi 難地(ナンチ) "difficult land".
The former owner of this land had a lot of misfortune in his family and finally died of illness. After his death the family became very poor
During 天保飢饉 the great famine of Tenpo (1833 - 1837) the land was used to bury the dead.





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SHRINES - Kikuna Shrine Gaman Yokohama

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Kikuna Jinja 菊名神社 Kikuna Shrine, Kanagawa


神奈川県横浜市港北区菊名6-5-14 / 6 Chome-5-14 Kikuna, Kohoku Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa

There were originally five shrines in an area of Sugiyama Jinja 杉山神社 Sugiyama Shrine, which is now in 菊名町公園 Kikuna Town Park.
The new Kikuna Shrine is famous for its 24 paintings of chrysanthemums on the ceiling.
kiku 菊 means Chrysanthemum.

ここ菊名の地には、昭和の初期まで神明社(天照皇大神)、杉山神社(日本武尊)、浅間神社(木花咲耶姫命)、八幡神社(譽田別命)、阿府神社（武内宿禰命)の５社が村社として地域の人々の信仰を集めて参りました。中でも記録に残るものとして最も古くからあるのが、阿府（あぶ）神社であり、その歴史は任和元年（８８５年）に遡るといわれております。時の天皇、光孝天皇が師岡に勅使を遣わされ熊野神社を創建なされた時、勅使がその途上、馬具の鎧をお納めになったことからその名が付いたと史書には書かれております。
この５社が昭和１０年、現在は菊名町公園となっている杉山神社の地に合祀され、名も「菊名神社」と改められました。その後、太平洋戦争の戦火を逃れてからは、同所を保健所建設用地として提供するため、当時の八幡神社の地（現菊名神社の地）に社殿を移設、以降この地で菊名の総鎮守として地域の人々とともに歩み、またその生活を見守り続けて参りました。
この間、氏子崇敬者の厚いご協力の下、昭和３２年には社殿の改修および社務所・神楽殿が建設され、信仰の対象としてだけでなく、地域住民の交流と青少年の研修の場としても大きな役割を担うこととなりました。そしてこの度平成２３年には、５０年ぶりの大々的な社殿改修工事を終え、２１世紀に相応しい姿となって生まれ変わりました。
新たに完成した拝殿の天井には、中心に「菊」の花を配し、四方にはがまんさまによって守られる２４枚の天井画が飾られております。テーマは「菊名の絆」です。これは社殿は新しくなっても、菊名の総鎮守として以前と同様、変わらずこの地の人々とともにあることを示しているのです。拝殿には、２４枚の天井画、輪になって咲く菊の花が中心に描かれ、四方は開運招福を呼ぶ四季を背景にしたがまんさまで守られています。
- source : kikunajinja.jp/profile/goyurai...

- - - - - Deities in residence - - - - -
・ 誉田別命（ほんだわけのみこと）Hondawake no Mikoto
・ 天照皇大神（あまてらすすめおおみかみ）Omaterasu Omikami
・ 日本武尊（やまとたけるのみこと）Yamato Takeru no Mikoto
・ 木花咲耶姫命（このはなさくやひめのみこと）Konohana Sakuyahime no Mikoto
・ 武内宿禰命（たけのうちすくねのみこと）Takenouchi Sukune no Mikoto

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gaman sama　がまんさま "endure the hardships"

This is a stone statue of an Oni demon, supporting the handwash basin.
Actually, there are also two of them.



They were made around 1800.
It expresses the endurance of the stone figures supporting the handwash basin for so many years without any complaint.

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shuin　朱印 stamp




omamori お守り　amulets

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EDO - Arakicho district Shinjuku Tsunokami

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Arakichoo 荒木町 Arakicho, Araki district
Shinjuku, no sub-districts
between Yotsuya Sanchome Station of the Marunouchi Line and the Tsunokamizakadori Avenue.
Founded in 1872 as 四谷荒木町 Yotsuya Arakicho.

Before the Edo period, this area was a wilderness on the coast, called
潮踏の里 Shiofumi no Sato or
潮干の里 Shiohi no Sato.



There used to be the slope 荒木坂 Arakizaka and an alley named 荒木横町 Araki Yokocho.
The Samurai 荒木政羽 Araki Masahane (1662 - 1732) lived here.
Masahane is related to the story of the 47 Ronin and Asano Takumi no Kami.
. 47 Ronin and the Chushingura ４７浪人　/ 忠臣蔵　 .

The slope Arakizaka was later re-named to Tsunokamizaka.
There was also a bridge named 津の守橋 Tsunokamibashi over the 玉川上水 Tamagawa Canal. This bridge is now called 北沢橋 Kitazawabashi.

During the Edo period, the estate of 美濃国高須藩 the Daimyo of Takasu Han, 松平義行, Matsudaira Yoshiyuki (1656 - 1715), was located here.
The slope 津の守坂 Tsunokamizaka is also related to Yoshiyuki, who's title was 摂津守 Settsu no Kami
This name has been shortened to "Tsu no kami".

Settsu Province (摂津国 Settsu no kuni) was a province which today comprises the southeastern part of Hyōgo Prefecture and the northern part of Osaka Prefecture.
It was also referred to as Tsu Province (津国 Tsu no kuni) or Sesshū (摂州).
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In the estate of Yoshiyuki was a waterfall and a large pond. The terrain was rough, mountainous and steep.
Once Tokugawa Ieyasu came here to wash muchi 策（ムチ）the whip for his horse,
so the pond was also called 策の池 Muchi no Ike.
In the Meiji period, the estate became a public park and many eateries and hanamachi 花街 pleasure quarters were established.

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Today, Arakicho has many high quality restaurants and is mostly known as a gourmet town, or a place for food connoisseurs. However, during the later part of the Showa era about 50 years ago, it was more famous as a drinking area. People working at TV, newspaper and other media companies in the nearby neighborhoods of Yotsuya and Ichigaya would often unwind in Arakicho after work. Most of those companies have since moved to new locations but all these small bars and drinking spots still remain.
... This long, straight street is called Sugidaimon Dori 杉大門通り.
"Sugi" stands for cedar and in earlier times this was a cedar tree-lined road. Now it is lined with ornamental lamp posts, giving the street its cosy night atmosphere. The slope beyond the end of the street (ending at Yasukuni Dori Avenue) used to be covered by a cedar forest and the trees were used as raw material for building ships. That area is called today Funamachi 船町 and could be translated as Ship Town. "Daimon" means Big Gate and although the street name doesn't haven't any specific meaning in Japanese one can imagine that it was used to transport the wood to the shipyards. ...
... Sharikimon Dori Street 車力門通り
... Don't forget to glance up occasionally – Arakicho has few high rise buildings but some bars are hidden on the 2nd floor. After the magic bar Kakurenbo on the left (notice that the entrance is just a hole in the wall), take the very narrow alley to the right. You'll emerge opposite the small Arakicho park on the S-shaped Sharikimon Dori Street 車力門通り. "Shariki" means a cart pulled by a person, and "mon" means gate.
... At the start of the 18th century, the area that would eventually be known as Arakicho town (officially in 1872), was originally the residence of the Japanese feudal lord ("daimyo") Matsudaira, and thus this road was used by carts bringing supplies to his home. An interesting fact is that Matsudaira happens to be the birth name of Tokugawa leyasu, who was the first to unify Japan in 1600 and the first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Tokugawa was a name that he took in 1567 (when he was 24 years old) and which the successive shoguns used till the Meiji restoration in 1868. The other members of the clan continued to use the Matsudaira surname, and thus the Matsudaira family living in Arakicho were related to the first shogun of Japan (more about him later).
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On Sharikimon Dori Street, head left and walk past the bar C-shell, another great place for drinks in the evening. Take the next street right and you'll see a descending staircase on the left. Before going down, glance over your shoulder and notice that the connecting alley is also paved with flagstones.The staircase curves first right then left – we are now entering what remains of the old garden that was part of the Matsudaira residence. At the bottom, you'll find a shrine, Tsunokami Benzaiten (津の神弁財天), and a small pond, Muchinoike 策の池, or pond of the whip. According to the legend, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japan's first shogun, would go hawking in the garden grounds and would wash his horse whip in this pond. Historical maps show that the pond used to be much larger.
After the end of the feudal system in 1868, the residence was no longer inhabited by a daimyo, and the garden was opened up to the public. Around the edge of the pond many tea houses were built, and guests could be entertained by geisha. At its peak there were up to 200 geisha working in Arakicho, which was then called Arakicho Hanamachi 花街 ("hana" means flower), or geisha district. This period lasted until the middle of the 20th century. Eventually all the tea houses closed and small bars and restaurants opened in their place. Nowadays there are no more tea houses or geisha in Arakicho. ...
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津の守坂通り the present-day Tsunokamizakadori Avenue


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Daikyoochoo 大京町 Daikyocho
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Shrine Tsunokami Benzaiten 津の守弁財天
and the pond 策の池 Muchi no Ike.



In the nineteenth century the Shinto shrine Tsunokami Benzaiten 津の守弁財天. located in the popular Shinjuku ward (新宿区), had in its garden this small body of water with waterfalls in which the inhabitants of Tokyo could find refreshment during the hot summer days
... The beautiful woodblock print below was made by the artist Shosai Ikkei (昇斎一景), is entitled
"The New Waterfalls at Tsunokami Hill" (津の守坂 志ん瀧) and is taken from the series "Selection of Thirty-six Humorous Views of Famous Places in Tokyo" (東京名所三十六戯撰).
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津の守坂志ん瀧 New Waterfall at the Tsunokamizaka slope

幽霊に潰される（桐座写真追加、江戸七瀑布ほか東京の納涼施設としての滝について追記）
四谷左門町即ち於岩稲荷とは甲州街道はさんで逆方向、新宿歴史博物館ほど近く。荒木町にかつて美濃高須藩は松平摂津守義行の屋敷があり、急峻な凹地に大池を作り作庭していた(幕末明治に高須四兄弟を輩出)。それは屋敷の四分の一に達するほどで、池の排水施設として作られた石樋は何百年も経た今も地下で機能しているという。明治維新後に武家屋敷が民間に払い下げられたときにここは風光明媚ということで人々が集いぐるりに店屋が建って名所化。
明治5年、玉川上水から引いた水を西崖の上から落とし、懸泉とした。高さ四メートル。これを「津の守の滝」と呼んだ。一景のこの浮世絵はまさにその年に描かれたものです。津の守坂志ん瀧（新滝の意味。津の守坂は現存します。現存する小池は滝壺でこの写真の箇所に該当します、後年はかっぱ池と呼ばれました）。
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久留米市 Kurume city 荒木町 Arakicho

. 河童 / かっぱ / カッパ - Kappa, the Water Goblin .
On a suitable day in the fourth lunar month, the children of the hamlet choose a home to come together. They made bamboo poles with small pieces of paper or toys and offered them to 川の神 the Deity of the River.
This would prevent them from being taken away by the Kappa when swimming in the river.

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. Yama no Kami 山の神 Yamanokami - Introduction .
. Ta no Kami 田の神 Tanokami - Introduction .
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Yama no Kami 山の神 God of the Mountain
and Legends from 山梨県 Yamanashi

. Legends about Yamanokami 山の神と伝説　.

. Yamanokami Senbonzakura 山の神千本桜 "Senbonzakura Park" .
Otorii, Chuo, Yamanashi // 中央市大鳥居1619-1



Yamanokami Shrine 山之神社 near たいら山 Mount Tairayama (934 m)
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. Yamanokami and Tengu 天狗 the Mountain Goblin .

The 17th day of the third lunar month is the Spring Festival for the local Tengu.
On this day Yamanokami comes down to cut setchigi セチギ（節木）a tree for the festival and people are not allowed to go to the mountain forest to work.
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. somabito 杣人 forest workers and shakuhachi 尺八 bamboo flute .
the 天狗 Tengu, who is the 山の神 "Deity of the Mountain", liked to hear Shakuhachi.
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. toriigi トリイギ（鳥居木）sacred Torii tree .
In Yamanashi this tree is used by the Deity of the Mountain or a Tengu.
People are not allowed to cut it, if they do not want to be cursed by Yamanokami and the local Tengu.
To pray people cut small branches and stick them in the ground to show respect.

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北巨摩郡 Kita-Koma district 須玉町 Sutama cho town

Women are not allowed to climb 金峰山 Mount Kinpusan (2599 m)
If a boy has long hair and comes to climb, Yamanokami will blow him back.
There are frightening sounds, as if a Tengu was falling from a rock and rain is falling.

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甲府市 Kofu city 中道町 Nakamichi machi town

. Tengu to matsu 天狗と松 Legends about the Tengu pine .
The pine tree of Yamanokami is also called
o-tengo matsu オテンゴマツ pine of the Tengu.
The Tengu who lives there is also abducting humans.

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Yatsushiro district 八代郡 / 芦川村 Ashigawa village

. tengudaoshi 天狗倒し "Tengu knocking down trees" .
In the hamlet of 中芦川部落 Naka-Ashigawa
a man once stayed over night in the mountain hut. He heard the loud noise of trees being cut down.
They say this is the work of Yamanokami.

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Yatsushiro district 八代郡 / 上九一色村 Kamikuishiki village　豊富村 Toyotomi village

Yamanokami has the features of a Tengu with very sharp eyes.
The real identity of this Tengu is a powerful deity named 山野の神 Sanno no Kami.
It is also called アマツキツネ Amatsukitsune. At night it might jump in the sky and fly around.

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Yamanokamisha 山神社 / 山之神社 Yamanokami Shrine
山梨県中央市大鳥居 Chuo city, Otorii



The people living here call it
「お山の神さん」 O-Yama no Kami San.
Along the access road are 1000 cherry trees, see above 山の神千本桜 "Senbonzakura Park".

The shrine was founded in 1715, according to a stone memorial in the compound.
The deity is venerated to protect farmers and craftsmen and good business.
People come from far away, not only Yamanashi, to pray here.

The main festivals are on the 17th day of April and October.
例祭は4月と10月の17日

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Yamanokamibashi 山の神橋 Yamanokami bridge
山梨県甲府市 右左口町 Kofu, Ubaguchichō


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. Mikaribaba, Mikari Basan 蓑借り婆さん / ミカリバアサン "old hag Mikari" .
And her companion, me hitotsu kozo 目一つ小僧 (Hitotsume Kozo) the boy with one eye.



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The 17th day of the first lunar month is sacred to Yamanokami and people are now allowed to go to the mountain forest.
Yamanokami is shooting arrows and people might get hurt.
Once the ancestor of 舟久保富雄 Funakubo Tomio went to the mountain on this day and tried to swing up his 斧 ax, but he could not move it down after that.
He became a follower of Yamanokami and prayed to it.
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. Yamanokami no tenbatsu 山の神の天罰 heavenly punishment of Yamanokami .
and his messenger, the inoshishi 猪 wild boar .
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hime 姫 a princess
Once a upon a time,
a farmer went to draw water from a pond, but however early he went, there had already been someone else before him.
He thought that strange and followed the water drops on the ground. He lost sight of deep down in the mountain. He waited all night and saw a beautiful princess drawing water and then disappearing deep into the mountain forest.
After that the water dried up and only the slope down to the pond remains, now called
O-Hime Saka 御姫坂 Slope of the Princess.

Now the road おひめ坂通り O-Himezaka-dori



蛇の化身と「乙女池」- お姫坂
富士吉田市の市道新町通り線（通称・おひめ坂通り）
The princess had been a serpent !
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- map of Ohimezaka-dori.



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白州町 （はくしゅうまち） Hakushu machi town

On the 17th day of the first and 8th lunar month, Yamanokami is shooting arrows and nobody is allowed to go into the mountain.
People might get hit and hurt.
Once a man forgot that and went hunting for yamadori 山鳥 pheasants.
That night his home shook heavily for three times.

. kiji, yamadori 雉と伝説 Legends about pheasants - Fasan .



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yamadori no tatari 山鳥の祟り the curse of the pheasant
Once upon a time
a farmer saw a pheasant in his field and took a gun to shoot it. When he looked closer, two animals were dead, they must have been Yamanokami as husband and wife.
When the farmer came home, he soon became very ill. This happened on the 21st day of the first lunar month, and since then people are not allowed to go to the mountain on this day.
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Yamanokami no tatari 山の神のたたり the curse of Yamanokami
The 17th day of the 10th lunar month is sacred to Yamanokami.
The 21st day of the first lunar month is also sacred to Yamanokami.
The hunters and charcoal makers from Nagasaku bring offerings of ritual Sake to 鶴峠 the pass Tsurutoge
If something very unpleasant happens to man they say it is the curse of Yamanokami.
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Yamanokami no ikari 山の神の怒り the anger of Yamanokami
The 21st day of the first lunar month is sacred to Yamanokami.
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In the hamlet 橋立 Hashitate
they have Ebesu ko エベス講 a yearly ritual for the Ebisu followers, where they knock down poles.
This is done because on the 21st day of the first lunar month Yamanokami is shooting arrows and the poles might be hit.
In Kanazawa they celebrate from the 17th to the 21stt day of the first lunar month. On these days nobody goes to the forest. If someone goes to the forest, he will be hit by an arrow or wounded by an ax. So forest workers sty in a home and eat and drink.

. Ebisu えびす /　恵比寿　/ エベス .

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Kitatsuru 小菅村 Kosuge village

On the second day of the first lunar month, workers take a rest and go to the mountain.
They bring offerings of sake 酒 rice wine in bamboo tubes and place sasa ササの葉 bamboo grass leaves in it. They pour these offerings over the leaves of a tree.
This tree will then become a sacred tree for Yamanokami.
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The 17th day of each month is sacred to Yamanokami.
In the first lunar month it is the Spring day for Yamanokami, in the tenth lunar month it is the Autumn day for Yamanokami.
Forest workers take a rest and celebrate. They bring special dumplings as offerings to a tree and Yamanokami might think this is his special tree.
On festival days people are not allowed to cut trees in the forest. Yamanokami is out there shooting arrows and might hit them.
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オオヤマツミノミコト Oyamatsumi no Mikoto
Ōyama-tsumi - This is another name for Yamanokami.
He is an old man with a white beard and a long robe, carrying a walking stick. He is full of poser and when he gets angry, his face becomes red.
He protects the forest workers.


. Ooyamatsuminomikoto 大山祇神, 大山積神, 大山津見神 Oyama Tsumi no Mikoto .
- Ōyama-tsumi, Oyama-Tsumi / オオヤマツミノミコト

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Kitatsuru 上野原町 Uenohara town

Yamanokami no tatari 山の神のたたり the curse of Yamanokami
People think that Yamanokami lives right there in the mountain.
If they work in the mountain forest and have an accident and get hurt, they feel it is the curse of Yamanokami.
Before cutting a tree they perform special purification rituals to appease the deity.




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早川町 Hayakawa town

On the 17th day of each month Yamanokami shoots arrows and people are not allowed to go to the mountain.
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Yamanokami no shirase 山の神様の知らせ advise from Yamanokami
On the other side of the hamlet Murohata オウマ谷は室草里 there is a place where the wood cutters take a rest and have lunch.
One day there seemed to be a typhoon and a man in white robed came and told them:
"This is going to be dangerous, better run fast and take shelter!"
Those who followed his advise were safe, but the others who had stayed up there were caught in a landslide and fell deep down into the valley.




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Minamitsuru 道志村 Doshi mura village

kitsune no koe 狐の声 the voice of a fox
Yamanokami makes the sound of ofui-ofui オフイオフイ, but this is really the voice of a fox.

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Minamitsuru 忍野村 Oshino mura village

o koto no kami オコトの神 honorable Deity
On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, O-Koto no Kami walks around from home to home.
He brings illness and harm to families, then called 疫神 Yakujin (Yakubyogami, see below Uenohara.
People also say Hitotsume Kozo is coming.
He is also called oyookasama お八日様 O-Yoka sama, who comes to count eyes.
People put up a mekago basket with many eyes to catch him.

. mekago 目籠 basket to ward off evil .

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Minamitsuru, 山中湖村 Yamanakako village

. 六部 A Rokubu pilgrim and 白馬 a white horse .






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saru さる/ サル monkey
Once upon a time
a man went into the mountain forest and said a lot of bad things about saru 「さる」the monkeys.
A lot of stones came falling down on his head and he died.
Since then people do not use the word SARU in the mountain.
This is a curse of Yamanokami.

. さるはちぼんのう Saruhachi Bonno Monkey deity .
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Chichigami san 乳神サン "breast deity"
This deity is venerated in 堀ノ内川久保 Kawakubo, Horinouchi.
A priest of the temple used to pray for mothers who did not have enough milk and when her milk was flowing, they erected a stone memorial to thank the deity.

. chichigami 乳神 "breast deity" .

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On the 17th day of the first lunar month, (some say the 16th day or the 17th day of the fourth lunar month)
) Yamanokami goes to the mountain ユミイリ to shoot arrows.
Sometimes he looses his kanmuri 冠 crown and comes to pick it up later.
オカンムリヒロイ picking up the crown may also be on the 21st day.
If people go to the mountain on these days they will get hurt.



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yakubyoogami 厄病神 deity of diseases
In the hamlet of 用竹 Yotake the deity of diseases comes on the 16th day of the first lunar month to see if there are any ill people.
Sometimes this job is handed over to Yamanokami, who then comes and makes noise and burns straw at the door, so that Yakubyogami can not go into the house.

. Yakubyoogami 疫病神 / 厄病神 Yakubyogami, Deity of Diseases .


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Akiba Kaido Highway Posted: 09 Aug 2019 10:44 PM PDT [ . BACK to DARUMA　MUSEUM　TOP . ] . Kaido 街道 Highways - ABC Index . :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Akiba Kaido 秋葉街道 Akiba Highway 遠信古道 Enshu Kodo Now mostly along the National Hiahway 152. 信州街道 Shinshu Kaido in Shizuoka. source : tohyamago.com/experience/akibakaidou... This road is related to the belief in the deity . Akibagongen 秋葉権現　Akiba Gongen . It is also related to . shio no mich 塩の道 the Salt Road . 120 km long and connected the Sea of Japan at Itoigawa 糸魚川 in Niigata (Echigo) with Matsumoto　松本. "Southenr Salt" 南塩 from 相良 Sagara (in Enshu, now Shizuoka) was transported to 諏訪湖 Lake Suwako and Nagano. In Shizuoka the road was called 信州街道 Shinshu Kaido connecting Sagara with 長野県飯田市 Iida city in Nagano via 牧之原台地 Makinohara Daichi, 掛川 Kakegawa (crossing the Tokaido), 森 Mori and 春野 Haruno, along 天竜川沿 the river Tenryugawa and 秋葉山 Mount Akibasan. crossing the pass 青崩峠 Aokuzure Toge into Nagano. and via the pass 小川路峠 Ogawaji Toge to Iida city. Yanagida Kunio used to call the road also 諏訪路 Suwa ji or 遠山通り Toyama-dori. ....................................................................... In 浜松市 Hamamatsu city was the famous Shrine 秋葉神社 Akiha Jinja (Akiba Jinja) 秋葉山本宮秋葉神社（あきはさん ほんぐう あきはじんじゃ）Akiha san Hongu Akiha Jinja 静岡県浜松市天竜区春野町領家 / Harunocho Ryoke - quote - The Akihasan Hongū Akiha Jinja (秋葉山本宮秋葉神社) is a Shinto shrine in Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu (the former town of Haruno in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan). The shrine is located near the summit of Mount Akiha, on the southern slopes of the Akaishi Mountains. It is the head shrine of the 800 Akiha shrines around the country. The main festival of the shrine is held annually over three nights in December, and features ceremonies using huge flares and other fireworks. The primary kami of Akibasan Hongū Akiba Jinja is the Hinokagutsuchi-no-Okami (火之迦具土大神), the kami associated with protection against fires. During the Edo period, this kami was popularly called the Akiha Gongen (秋葉権現) and was identified with Kannon Bosatsu under the Shinbutsu shūgō system of combined Buddhism and Shinto. ... Per shrine tradition, the Akibasan Hongū Akiha Jinja was established in 701 as a Buddhist temple by the famed priest Gyōki. It was named Akiha-dera (秋葉寺) from a poem written by Emperor Saga in 709. During the Heian period it became a center for the Shugendō cult and was associated with the Shingon sect, although much of its subsequent history is uncertain. - - - More in the WIKIPEDIA ! :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: - - - To join me on facebook, click the image ! ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: . kaidoo 街道と伝説 Legends about the old Kaido highways . . Kaido 街道 Highways - ABC Index . . Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo　江戸の名所 . . Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government . . Doing Business in Edo - 商売　- Introduction . . shokunin 職人 craftsman, craftsmen, artisan, Handwerker . . senryu, senryū 川柳　Senryu poems in Edo . . Japanese Architecture - The Japanese Home . . Interior Design - The Japanese Home . . Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction . [ . BACK to DARUMA　MUSEUM　TOP . ] [ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ] - - - - - #akibakaido #akibahighway #akibagongen #akiha #akihagongen - - - - ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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Hijiyama Kaido Highway Posted: 08 Aug 2019 10:07 PM PDT [ . BACK to DARUMA　MUSEUM　TOP . ] . Kaido 街道 Highways - ABC Index . :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Hijiyama Kaido 比治山街道 Hijiyama Highway Mount Hijiyama is a small mountain in Hiroshima, about 70 m high. Hiroshima was established on the delta coastline of the Seto Inland Sea in 1589 by powerful warlord Mōri Terumoto. Hiroshima Castle was quickly built, and in 1593 Mōri moved in. Terumoto was on the losing side at the Battle of Sekigahara. The winner of the battle, Tokugawa Ieyasu, deprived Mōri Terumoto of most of his fiefs, including Hiroshima and gave Aki Province to Masanori Fukushima, a daimyō who had supported Tokugawa. From 1619 until 1871, Hiroshima was ruled by the Asano clan. - wikipedia - Hijiyama Koen Park　比治山公園 Hijiyama Park, Hijiyamacho Minami-ku Hiroshima-shi,Hiroshima - quote - Located in the city of Hiroshima as a famous site for cherry blossoms. You can get a full view of the metropolis from the top of a small hill and the art museum and manga library inside the park are places to relax. ... a site that extends north and south along the 71m-high Mt. Hiji. From the 2 observation points inside the park, you can get a view of the city of Hiroshima and the Seto Inland Sea, and enjoy both the daytime and nighttime views. Also known for its cherry blossoms, approximately 1300 cherry trees go into full bloom between late March and early April, attracting many flower-viewing visitors. Aside from the art museum and the manga library in the park, there are also outdoor sculptures everywhere. Equipped as an art park, it has become a place of rest for the citizens. - Japan's first public modern art museum A park building which will draw your attention is the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. Located at the top of Mt. Hiji, it first opened in 1989 as Japan's first public modern art museum. There are approximately 1500 exhibits which were mostly created by young artists after the Second World War. Along with special exhibitions, the museum introduces various ways to enjoy the contemporary art including Artists' Talk where you can hear the real voices of the artists, talks by the curators, and monthly workshops which are popular with the kids. Next to the shopping center beside the park, there is a 207m-long moving sidewalk and escalator known as the Hijiyama Skywalk which will connect you to the museum. Right in front of the museum is the stop for the convenient Hiroshima sightseeing bus Meipuru-pu. - A library specializing in manga, unique in the country The Hiroshima City Manga Library which is located at the north side of the park is a unique facility specializing in manga as a public library. There are 120,000 of the latest manga magazines and the newest single volumes of manga which have become films, dramas and anime. - source : planetyze.com/en/japan/hiroshima... - .............................................................................................................................................. Hijiyama Jinja 比治山神社 Hijiyama Shrine 広島県広島市南区比治山町5-10 / 5-10 Hijiyamacho, Minami Ward, Hiroshima The Deity in residence was 黄幡大明神 Oban Daimyojin and the shrine was located in a valley South of Mount Hijiyama, the 黄幡谷 Obandani. In 1646 the Shrine was relocated to its present place. - HP of the Shrine - reference source : hijiyama-jinja.jp.. - :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: . Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction . Jizoo sama 地蔵様 Jizo Bosatsu The daikan 代官 assistant deputy governor passed along the old Hijiyama Kaido and took a rest. There came a beautiful young woman and offered him some tea. Then she disappeared. The local farmers thought it must have been an incarnation of Jizo Bosatsu and made an offering of a field. This is the Jizoden 地蔵田 Jizo Field to our day. . Jizō - Jizo Bosatsu 地蔵菩薩 - ABC List . There is a famous historic site in Akita called Jizoden. 4 Chome-16-8 Goshonojizoden, Akita - quote - Jizouden Site - the Paleolithic Culture - Report of Excavation,1985 The Jizouden Site is located in the southern suburb of Akita City, Akita Prefecture. It is situated on the lower river terrace of the right bank from the Iwami River in Akita Plains where is at a height of 31m above sea level. The site was discovered by the Akita City Board of Education in 1985. A total of 4,447 paleolithic artifacts were discovered from the Jizouden Site. - source : city.akita.lg.jp/kurashi... - Jizoden is also the name of Sake from Akita : source : takashimizu-shop.com... Akita ....................................................................... There is a 地蔵田 Jizoda in Otsubocho, Miyazaki, 880-0951　 宮崎県宮崎市大坪町 .............................................................................................................................................. - reference : nichibun yokai database - :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: - - - To join me on facebook, click the image ! ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: . Kaido 街道 The old highways . . kaidoo 街道と伝説 Legends about the old Kaido highways . . Kaido 街道 Highways - ABC Index . . Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo　江戸の名所 . . Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government . . Doing Business in Edo - 商売　- Introduction . . shokunin 職人 craftsman, craftsmen, artisan, Handwerker . . senryu, senryū 川柳　Senryu poems in Edo . . Japanese Architecture - The Japanese Home . . Interior Design - The Japanese Home . . Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction . [ . BACK to DARUMA　MUSEUM　TOP . ] [ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ] - - - - - #hijiyama #hijiyamakaido - - - - ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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