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25 Mar 2018

EDO - Komagata district

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Komagatachoo 駒形町 Komagata district
Taito ward, 台東区, Taitō, with two sub-districts 駒形一丁目 /　駒形二丁目.　South of 浅草 Asakusa

The name Komagata-Cho is mentioned in books since about 1661.
(浅草駒形 Asakusa Komagata).

koma 駒 is another word for uma 馬 horse.
Komagata means "form of a horse", "looking like a horse".
Thetemple hall 駒形堂 Komagata Do could be seen from boats down the river Sumidagawa, looking like a white horse running, koma kake　駒駆け.
komakake changed in the local dialect to Komagata.

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Komagata doo 駒形堂 Komagata Do Hall

Komagata-dô Azuma-bashi　駒形堂 Komagata Hall and Azuma Bridge
Hiroshige

Komagata-do,
dedicated to the horse-headed guardian deity of mounted travelers, one of the many manifestations of the bodhisattva Kannon, marks the original gateway to Senso-ji, standing formerly on the threshold of the land and waters from where Kannon is said to have emerged in the ancient past. Because of this legend, the hall was originally facing the river, and fishing was forbidden as a mark of respect.
. Asakusa 浅草 district in Edo .

- reference source : senso-ji.jp/guide... -

The main deity was Kannon Bosatsu, a statue which was found near the 駒形橋 Komagata bridge.
The hall is near Komagata Bridge beside the 隅田川 Sumidagawa river. It was the first hall for the Kannon statue, which is now in the main temple of Asakusa,
The first Komagata Do Hall was built in 942 by 平公雅 Taira no Kimimasa, right next to the boat landing place at the river. So visitors first came to the Komagata Do Hall to pray and then went to the Asakusa Kannon temple. The front of the temple was first located facing the river, but eventually it was rebuilt to show the back to the river. The present-day hall was built in 2003.
One priest of the Asakusa Kannon temple, 網野宥俊僧正, knew that the original place of the statue was in the Sumidagawa, so the Kannon must like fresh things from the water and thus he installed Bato Kannon 馬頭観音 the Horse-headed Kannon in the hall. For the people to pray to, he had the statue made like a horse (umagata 馬形), later written 駒形.

. Asakusa Kannon　浅草観音 - 浅草寺 Temple Senso-Ji .

. batoo Kannon 馬頭観音 Bato Kannon, "Horseheaded Kannon" .
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Komagata no asagiri 駒形の朝霧 morning mist at Komagata

source : national diet library
一勇斎国芳 Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi

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Komagata-bashi 駒形橋 Komagata Bridge
Length/ Width: 146.2m/ 22m

source : gotokyo.org/en/kanko/taito...

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. Deity 駒形明神 Komagata Myojin / 馬鳴菩薩 Memyo Bosatsu .
menari myoojin 馬鳴明神 "neighing horse deity"

© PHOTO :　kawamura

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Komagata Jinja 駒形神社　Shrines devoted to the gods and goddesses of horses

. Komagata no ookami 駒形大神 the great gods of Komagata .
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Amaterasu oomikami (天照大御神)
Amenotokotachi no mikoto (天之常立尊)
Kuninosatsuchi no mikoto (国之狭槌尊)
Wagatsu no mikoto ( 吾勝尊)
Okise no mikoto (置瀬尊)
Hikohohodemi no mikoto (彦火火出見尊)

- - - - - 駒形神社 Komagata shrines in Tohoku
駒形神社(柿ノ沢)　// 駒形神社(綾織) // 駒木の駒形神社

Arakawa Komagata Jinja 荒川駒形神社
遠野市附馬牛町上附馬牛14 / Tsukimo-Ushicho Kamitsukimo-Ushi, Tōno,

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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

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石川郡 Ishikawa district 平田村 Hirata

A horse had been drinking from the water under a rock of the shrine for 八大神様 Hachidai Sama (the eight dragon deities). It became very large and flew off to heaven.
The footsteps of the horse are still seen on the rock and the region was called Komagata.
Komagata mura 駒形村 Komagata village, now part of 喜多方市 Kitakata town.

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栗原郡 Kurihara district 花山村 Hanayama village

- Mount Komagatayama 駒形山

deities Komagatane Gongen 駒形根権現 and Ontake Gongen 御嶽権現
The deities from the mountains of 駒形根 Komagatane and 御嶽 Ontake came down to meet in 陸奥 Mutsu, near 築館 Tsukidate. Near the river 一迫川 Ichihasamagawa they found beautiful flowers in bloom and named the mountain 花山 Hanayama "Mountain with Flowers".
On the way back the Kami from Ontake became sleepy, but the Kami from Komagatane kept going and pursued the way with the most beautiful landscape. This is now mount 御駒山 Okomayama.
The Kami from Ontake came later and took another route. This is now 御嶽権現の山 the mountain of Ontake Gongen, where beautiful shakunage 石楠花 rhododendron are flowering.
Komagatane Gongen became jealous and wanted some flowers too, but since he had left Ontake behind earlier on, he did not get any.
To our day, these rhododendron flower only at mount 御嶽山 Ontakesan and not on mount 駒形山 Komagatayama.

Komagatane Jinja 駒形根神社
Miyagi Prefecture, Kurihara, Kurikomanumakura, Ichinomiya 11

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小県郡 Chiisagata district 長和町 Nagawa

Komagata-iwa 駒形岩 Komagata Rock
Rock with the imprint of a horse

. uma 馬 koma 駒伝説　horse legends .

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台東区 Taito ward

onna no ushi-oni 女の牛鬼 a female Ushi-Oni demon
At 浅草駒形 Asakusa Komagata a female Ushi-Oni demon has been seen runing around.
浅草駒形の門前より女の牛鬼が走り出たという。

. ushi oni, ushioni, gyuuki 牛鬼 "bull-demon" .

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- reference : nichibun yokai database -

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source : matcha-jp.com...
"Dozyo(Loach fish)" is one of the regional menus eaten by locals since Edo era (17th Century~). At those times there used to be shops selling "Dozyo-jiru", a dish of rice bowl with dozyo soup poured on. We can say that it was one typical fast food back then.
Traditional Dojo Loach Fish Gourmet at "Komagata Dozyo", Asakusa

. dojoo 泥鰌 Loach, weather loach, weatherfish, Dojo loach .
- kigo in various seasons

駒形のどぜうの霧に工事燈
Komagata no doseo (dojoo) no kiri ni koojitoo

石原八束 Ishihara Yatsuka (1919 - 1998)

初弁天駒形泥鰌に歩を変へぬ
緒方梧葉

- Komagata Dojo 駒形泥鰌 Hot Pot with Komagata Loach -

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Yakushi legends 07 Kyoto

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Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and legends from 京都 Kyoto　

勝持寺 Shoo-Ji - お薬摘む薬師
(西国四十九薬師巡礼 Nr. 42)

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. Inaba Yakushi 因幡薬師 Yakushi from Inaba .
Byoodooji 平等寺 Byodo-Ji　－　五条高倉薬師堂 Gojo Takakura Yakushi Do .
Medicine Master Buddha: The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan

. Tako Yakushi 蛸薬師 Octopus Yakushi .
Temple 永福寺 Eifuku-Ji
京都市中京区新京極蛸薬師東側町503

京都十二薬師霊場 / 洛陽十二薬師
. Pilgrimage to 12 Yakushi Temples in Kyoto .

kuwagata Yakushi 鍬形薬師 Yakushi with a cut of a hoe
temple 大超寺 Daicho-Ji

The statue was found by a farmer plowing his fields, it shows the impression of his kuwa 鍬 hoe on the back.

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kane no oto 鐘の音 the sound of the bell
Near the 火葬場 crematory there was a 薬師堂 Yakushi Do Hall. People say there were a lot of gold coins buried there. In a quiet night the sound of a bell was heard from below the Yakushi hall.

kuruma-kaeshi no O-Yakushi san 車返のお薬師さん Yakushi stopped the transport
On orders of the Kamakura government a very precious statue of Yakushi was to be brought to 奥州平泉 Hiraizumi. But on the way at 白糸 Shiraito the cr with the statue on it could not be moved any more. So the people thought that Yakushi had chosen this place for himself and built a hall there to venerate him.

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tsuchinoko hebi 槌の子蛇 hammerspawn
Hammerspawns had been sighted at various spots in Kyoto:
In Northern Kyoto, 雲ケ畑 Kumogabata at the 薬師峠 Yakushi pass, at 沢の池 Sawanoike, at 老ノ坂峠 Oinosaka Pass
. at 京都清滝不動院 Kiyotaki Fudo-In .

Yakushi Tooge 薬師峠 Yakushi Toge pass

. tsuchinoko 槌の子 hammerspawn .
a legendary snake-like cryptid from Japan

- reference : Yakushi Toge in Japan -

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亀岡市 Kameoka

Yakushido no kane 薬師堂の鐘 the bell of the Yakushi Do Hall
When villagers buried the bell of the Yakushi Do Hall at the upper waterfall of the river 蛇谷川 Jadanigawa, it begun to rain immediately and the drought was over.

Yakushi Butsuzoo 薬師,仏像
About 200 years ago, during a flooding, a buddha statue came floating down the river. People thought it was Yakushi and venerated it.
Most people in the village stayed healthy after that.

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中京区 Nakagyo

. tengu no tsume 天狗の爪 nails of a Tengu .
shown at Temple 丹州国分寺 Kokubun-Ji

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南丹市 Nantan

薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai
If people make a wish for healing at the Yakushi Do Hall at the temple 成就院 Joju-In, people hard of hearing will certainly be healed. To show their gratitude, they have to make an offering. They must find a stone with a hole, place a thread or a mizuhiki 水引 ceremonial paper cord around it and offer it.

kyuuri kaji 胡瓜加持 ritual for cucumber purification, cucumber blessing
At the Yakushi Do Hall people come to get a purified cucumber, take it home and each member of the family has to take a bite. The rest will be buried under the beams of the house to prevent people from getting ill during the year.

. kyuuri fuuji きゅうり封じ / 胡瓜封じ cucumber ritual .

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与謝郡 Yosa district 野田川町 Nodagawa

. muchi yakushi 鞭薬師 "whip Yakushi" .
麻呂子親王 Prince Maroko Shinno carved seven statues of Yakushi Nyorai ...

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Aichi 愛知県 / 名古屋市 Nagoya 熱田区 Atsuta

. 大薬師の鬼祭 "Festival of the Demons of Yakushi Nyorai" .
高蔵不動院 Takakura Fudo-In

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Shimane 島根県 / 邇摩郡 Nima district

. Yakushi no men 薬師の面 mask of Yakushi .
at the tempel 山田寺 Yamadadera

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Wakayama 和歌山県 / 日高郡 Hidaka district みなべ町 Manabe

O-Ryuu Yanagi おりゅう柳 The Willow Tree O-Ryu
. Sanjusan Gendo Hall and 柳のお加持 "Rite of the Willow" .
and the legend of O-Ryu.

A willow tree from 熊野川町 Kumanogawa village had been cut down and should be shipped to Kyoto for the building of the Sanjusan Gendo Hall.
The tree was very large and could not float down the river smoothly. There appeared the spirit of a woman and helped pulling the tree downriver. But the place where the tree had been cut was now cursed
and the villagers venerated 十二薬師 12 Yakushi statues there.

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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Tooji 東寺 To-Ji - Yakushi Do Hall

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- - - - - More temples with statues of Yakushi Nyorai in Kyoto

一様院 Ichiyo-In, 大宮薬師山東町16

神護寺 Jingo-Ji, 高雄山 Takao-San

教王護国寺 Kyoo-O Gokoku-Ji

来迎院 Raigo-In

三宝院 Sanbo-In, 醍醐寺 Daigo-Ji 塔頭三宝院

- reference source : yaokami.jp/kyoto -

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TENGU - sumotori wrestling legends

https://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.jp/2018/02/tengu-sumo-wrestling-legends.html

Tengu sumo wrestling legends

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Tengu to sumoo 天狗と相撲 Legends about Tengu and Sumo wrestling

. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .
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Tengu no Sumotoriba 天狗の相撲場
is often a place in the forest which is rather flat and has few or no trees, thus naturally fit for the Tengu to gather and do Sumo wrestling.
It is found in many forests of Japan.

. Sumoo 相撲 Sumo wrestling / rikishi 力士 wrestler .

How the Tengu lost his nose

- reference source : blog.goo.ne.jp/inehapo/e -

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Tengu sumootori yama　天狗角力取山 Tengusumotoriyama
Two mountains where Tengu practise Sumo wrestling

Fukushima 猪苗代町 Inawashiro - 1360 m
Yamagata - 鶴岡市 Tsuruoka - 1376 m

Yamagata - In front is the flat area for Sumo.

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. shibaten シバテン / shiba tengu 柴天狗 Shiba Tengu, Shibatengu .
Like a Kappa, he hangs around rivers, asks people to have a wrestling bout and begins to confuse their minds.
But he never goes into the river himself, so he is not a real Kappa.
Legends from Ehime, Kochi and Tokushima in Shikoku.

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喜多方市 Kitakata town

Tengu no sumootori ba 天狗の相撲とり場 Tengu and Sumo wrestling
At the place where the Tengu used to practise sumo wrestling, a Tengu once had his long nose come off.
It turned into the flower of 水バショウ Mizubasho, skunk cabbage.

福島市土湯「びっき沼の水芭蕉」-
Tsuchiyu Hot Spring : Mizubasho from Bikkurinuma swamp

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伊勢崎市 Isesaki 波志江町 Hashie

The strong man 五郎兵衛 Gorobei once had a wrestling bout with a Tengu, but he lost it.

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勢多郡 Seta district 横野村 Yokono

The shrine Hachimangu is located in the north of the pond ミゾロガ池 Mizorogaike (Mizoro-ga-ike), 赤城山西麓 wwst of Mount Akagisan. There is a large matsu 松 pine tree in its compound where the Tengu lives.
Sometimes he comes to the home to the 南雲家 Nagumo family for a bout of Sumo. When his partner is the son, the Tengu always wins. But one day the father was his opponent and the Tengu lost!
Now the family was allowed to cut the huge pine tree and sell it for good money.

. Tengu to matsu 天狗と松 Legends about the Tengu pine .

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日立市 Hitachi

Once upon a time
there was a Sumo wrestling place of the Tengu near the temple 大雄院 Daio-In. The ancestors of the 住吉氏 Sumiyoshi family went there every night, every night to learn sword fighting from the Tengu.

大雄院 / ダイオウイン Daio-In / (Taiyu-In) 茨城県日立市宮田町5-6-15

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高萩市 Takahagi

Once a Tegu landed on a stone in the garden of the 大部氏宅 Obu family, put a blindfold over the eyes of one family member and took him to the mountain to have a bout of Sumo.
The Tengu told him: "If you come up here next time, bring some sekihan 赤飯 red auspicious rice and we can have a party!"
The man came home and told his wive about it, but from that day on the Tengu never appeared again.

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多賀郡 Taga district 高岡村 Takaoka

A tengu came every day to have a bout of Sumo with a 炭焼き charcoal maker.
One day the Tengu told him: "If you promise not to eat ４つ足と２足 "four legs and two legs", I will make you rich for the rest of your life. But you must never tell anyone about our meeting and this promise!"
The man had no idea what "four legs and two legs" meant and asked other villagers about it. But from that day on, the Tengu did not come any more.

. sumigama 炭竈と伝説 Legends about charcoal kilns .

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. Tengu of Mount Shiromine 白峯山 in Sanuki 讃岐 .
Saganbō Daigongen 相模坊大権現

- 白峯天狗伝説　Shiromine Tengu Densetsu
相模坊は相撲が好き Saganbo liked to practise Sumo.

- reference source : city.sakaide.lg.jp/soshiki/bunkashinkou -

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仙台市 Sendai

Tengu sumotoriba 天狗相撲取場
On the eastern side of the 大倉ダム Okura Dam there is a steep cliff, and below it the 大倉川渓谷 Okuragawa gorge, spanned by the Tengubashi 天狗橋 Tengu-bashi, Tengu Bridge.
A Tengu has built it in just one night. At the cliff is the Shinto shrine 小倉神社 Ogura Jinja. Close by is the Sumo place of the Tengu.

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Tengu Bashi Ichinoseki Sendai

Original 19th century hand colored albumen photograph. Dimensions are 26.5 cm x 20.5 cm (10.5 in x 8 in).
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- - - - - Other bridges named 天狗橋 Tengubashi - often natural rock formations

Fukushima / 鮫川村 Samegawa
A natural stone bridge, almost 8 m long and 4 m wide.

Kagawa 香川県
On the way from 宇田津 Udatsu along 金比羅道 the road to Konpira san is a stone brigde, the Tengubashi. It is not known which stone mason built this bridge.

In Hiroshima is a bus stop named 天狗橋（広島県）on the way to Konpira san.

Miyagi 宮城県 / 桃生郡 Momou district 雄勝 Ogatsu
A dolmen stone formation which looks like a natural bridge. A Tengu built it in one night.

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When all the villagers were asleep, a Tengu came to the village. Soon another Tengu came flying down from the sky and the two begun a bout of Sumo wrestling. They made a large dohyoo 土俵 Sumo ring arena and wrestled for a while,
Then they practised with the sword, the whole night long.

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文京区 Bunkyo ward

. Temple 小石川伝通院　Koishikawa Denzu-In / Dentsu-In.
The pious 岱雄 Taio and Sumo wrestilng at 成田不動　Narita Fudo.

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Tengu sumootori yama　天狗角力取山 Tengusumotoriyama
Mountain where Tengu practise Sumo wrestling

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西村山郡 Nishi-Murayama district

. 鳥海山の筍，月山の筍 bamboo shoots from Mount Chokaisan and Mount Gassan .
at 竜が岳 Mount Ryugatake

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南置賜郡　Minami-Okitama district 中津川村 Nakatsugawa

tsunegami sama ツネガミサマ / 常神 Tsunegami Deity
Sometimes the Tengu comes to the Sumo place all dressed up. He is the messenger of Tsunegami Sama.

source : wikimedia
Fukui, Tsunegami Peninsula
Ongami-jima is an uninhabited island which belongs to Wakasa Town of Fukui Prefecture. About 500 meters offshore from Tsunegami Peninsula, it is the biggest island in Fukui.
In 629, upon orders of the Japanese Emperor, a shrine was built on the island enshrining the god of Tsunegami.
source : jal.japantravel.com/fukui

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At 稲山 Mount Inesan (Inayama) there is a wrestling place of the Tengu.
Once an onlooker called out
"Inesan to Dai-Tengu, 川内戸 Kawanaido no Ko-Tengu - yokkoisho, have a bout!"
But at that moment he was thrown down the hill and landed in front of his home.
「イネサンの大天狗、川内戸の小天狗どっこいしょ」

- by the way
At Inayama in Yamanashi, there are 稲山遺跡 Inayama remains from the Jomon period
山梨県笛吹市八代町岡字稲山1903-2外

旧石器/縄文（中）/中世/近世
集落+散布地-旧石器+縄文（中）+中世+近世-住居跡+竪穴状遺構+土坑+集石土坑+集石+地下式坑+溝状遺構+ピット-土器+石器+陶磁器+鉄製品+古銭+骨片
- reference source : sitereports.nabunken.go.jp -

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西八代郡 Nishi-Yatsushiro 上九一色村 Kami-Kuishiki

yama no nushi 山の主 Lord of the Mountain
At 大和田山 Mount Owadasan a forest worker was about to engage in a Sumo bout with a young priest who happened to come along. Suddenly there was a voice from the sky:
"If you do Sumo with that person, you are sure to die!"
The forest worker was quite surprized by this warning and stopped and the young priest suddenly was gone.
The young priest had been the Tengu, the Lord of this Mountain.

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. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .

. Tengupedia - 天狗ペディア　- Tengu ABC-List.

. Legends about Kobo Daishi Kukai - 弘法大師　空海 - 伝説 .

. Japanese legends and tales 伝説　民話　昔話 - Introduction .

- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan -

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24 Mar 2018

SHRINES - Yama kon Kami 09 Regional Gifu Gunma

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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 岐阜県 Gifu to 群馬県 Gunma

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. guhin kuhin gubin 狗賓 / 狗嬪 / グヒン Guhin Tengu Yokai .
Guhin mochi 狗賓餅 rice cakes for the Guhin - later gohei mochi 五平餅.

. Sarugami 猿神 Monkey Deity .
- the local Yamanokami.

. Yamanokami and Tengu 天狗 the Mountain Goblin .
tengu-daoshi 天狗倒し

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a bus stop named 山の神 Yamanokami
岐阜県揖斐郡揖斐川町春日川合
Kasugakawai, Ibigawa, Ibi District, Gifu or Yamanokami Iinuma, Nakatsugawa-shi, Gifu

and at the park さざれ石公園 Sazareishi Koen park there is a lodging
山の神さざれ荘 Yamanokami Sazaresoo

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Yamanokami is related to fuji no tsuru 藤の蔓 / 藤のツル the of the vine branches of wisteria.
In a novel called Yamanokami satsujin 山の神殺人 the Yamanokami murder case
by 坂口安吾.
両手を首にまき両足を腰にからみつけて藤のツルのようにシッカリしがみついている

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郡上郡 Gujo district, Gujō

There are at least 2 or three people who died because they went to do forest work on a day when it was not allowed out of respect for Yamanokami.

- - - - - strange things happening to Saito san
葉の落ちる音 sound of leaves falling，円柱状の大きな光 a huge pillar of light，壁をドーンと叩く音 loud sound of DOOON on the wall
The head of the Saito family, 斎藤誉逸, from 大洞 Obora, had been harrassed by Yamanokami around 1904.
When he was on his way home from a carpenter job, after some drinks in the evening, he passed the sanctuary of 秋葉様 Akiba sama he heard the sound of leaves falling, although there were not left on the trees.
He tried to keep his calm and then saw a huge pillar of light above the graveyard. When he finally reached his home, he heard the stange sound of someone hitting his wall.
Next morning he asked a diviner. He was told that Yamanokami had tried to challenge his courage (or rather lack thereof).

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揖斐郡 Ibi district 揖斐川町 Ibigawa

The messenger of Yamanokami is a shiro usagi 白ウサギ white rabbit.
If someone happens to see it, he will be cursed.

usagi at 熊野神社 Kumano Jinja

. Legends about the White Rabbit 白兎 hakuto .

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武儀郡 Mugi district 板取村 Itadori

Some people say Yamanokami is a kitsune 狐 fox!

Yamanokami is a deity to protect children, maybe even a child himself.
If a child gets ill parents have to put up a lantern and say prayers for its recovery.

On the day of the tiger in the second lunar month and on the 7th day of the 11th lunar month it is time for the Yamanokami prayer group. If people do not keep this day, there might be landslides. Yamanokami is female, and if women eat the left-overs from the prayer meeting they will become all wild.
. hatsu tora 初寅 "first day of the tiger" .

Yamanokami likes the following trees
-- madogi マドギ "window tree" - trees with two stems
-- hookigi ホウキギ broom tree / Kochia scoparia
-- kamoeda カモエダ
These trees are not to be cut down.

Yamanokami is a plain woman and women coming to worship her must keep the necessary taboos.

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高山市 Takayama

. The deity Yamabiko 山彦（山の神） Yamanokami .
Legends about Master Carver Enku　円空と伝説　

On the 20th day of the first lunar month people should not go to the mountain. If they do they will feel the curse of Yamanokami and maybe die under a tree that falls on them.
If a lumberjack forgets his nata 鉈 hatchet in the forest, he has to swing his dankon 男根 penis to show him the right direction to find it.

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高山市 Takayama 上宝町 Kamitakara

uma 馬 horse

At the waterfall 鼠餅の大滝 Nezumochi Otaki / 鼠餅瀧
Yamanokami comes often riding a horse and lets the horse walk around.
During that time people can hear the sound of the horse.

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吉城郡 Yoshiki district 坂下村 Sakashimo mura

The 9th day of the second lunar month is the 山の講 prayer day for Yamanokami. On this day Yamanokami goes out to plant seeds.
On the 9th day of the 10th lunar month he comes to count the trees.
On both of these days people are not allowed to cut any trees until 10 in the morning.
All the menfolk of the village gather at the 祠 sancturay for Yamanokami and make offerings of ritual Sake and ゴヘイモチ Goheimochi rice cakes.

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赤城山 Mount Akagiyama / Akagisan (Red Castle) is 1,828 m high.
The 赤城山の神 deity of Akagisan is a mukade ムカデ centipede.
Mount Akagi, along with Mount Myōgi and Mount Haruna, is one of the "Three Mountains of Jōmō" (上毛三山),
It comes with legends of its own, to be explored later.

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【怖い話】群馬県みなかみ町山の神の足音
The footsteps of Yamanokami
- a scary story told on YouTube.

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A town called
群馬県太田市山之神町 Yamanokamicho, Ota, Gunma

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In most parts of Gunma, the 8th day of January is the Day of Yamanokami and people are not allowed to do work in the mountain forests.

. Okojo オコジョ hort-tailed weasel, stoat or ferret. .
- messenger of Yamanokomi
碓氷郡 Usui district 松井田町 Matsuida // 利根郡 Tone district 片品町 Katashina

. Yamanokami and Tengu 天狗 the Mountain Goblin .
Yamanokami is seen as a Tengu in most regions of Gunma.
倉渕村 Kurabuchi / 南牧村 Nanmoku / 東町 Azumacho / 上野村 Uenomura / 片品村 Katashina / 松井田町 Matsuida

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甘楽郡 Kanra district 南牧村 Nanmoku

Yamanokami is seen as male and venerated together with
. jigami, jishin, chigami, chijin 地神 Kami of the Earth / the Land .

There is a shrine
Kaijo no Yamanokami Jinja 会場の山の神神社 Yamanokami of Kaijo
on the top of the pass from 秋畑 Akihata to 上日野 Kamihino.
Kaijo is the name of this place.

source : sukima.com/32_tomioka08...

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沼田市 Numata 利根町 Tone village

numa no nushi no tatari 沼の主の祟り curse of the lord of the pond
People younger than 16 years are not allowed to climb 赤城山 Mount Akagiyama.
If they do they will be cursed by Yamanokami and the lord of the pond, there will be a very strong rain and mist to make them loose their way, and they will not be able to find their way back.

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多野郡 Tano district 上野村 Ueno village

Yama no Kamisama no ki 山の神様の木 tree of Yamanokami
A woodcutter tried to cut a sacred tree, but was hit as it fell down and he died.
Another died while he tried to transport the tree down into the valley.

モロバンギ Morobashigi is another of the sacred trees of Yamanokami and not to be cut down.
If someone uses it as a pillar for a house, there will be death and illness every year without end.

Yamanokami was once venerated in a sanctuary close to the village at the foot of the mountain, but many got ill and it was brought back to the top of the mountain.

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利根郡 Tone district 片品村 Katashina

. Yamanokami and jūni sama 十二様 12 Juni Sama .
On the 12th day of each month Juni Sama is venerated.

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碓氷郡 Usui district 松井田町 Matsuida

Some say Yamanokami is a man, others say it is a woman. And others say they just do not know.
On his day each month on the 17th people are not allowed to cut trees in the forest.

yumihari ki ユミハリ木 -- madoki マド木 trees of Yamanokami
There are special trees with two trunks interwoven, they are sacred to Yamanokami.
He comes there to rest and they are not allowed to be cut down.
ユミハリ木やマド木(2本の立木の幹と幹とが交差しているのをいう)を、「山の神の遊び木だから伐るな」という。

Once a child got a coin stuck in its throught and they could not get it out!
"Let's pray to Yamanokami for help!" They went to the sanctuary of Yamanokami to pray. And oh wonder, from a far-away mountain, where a lumberjack had cut a sugi 杉 cedar tree, there came the spit flowing through the air, hitting the throught of the child and with this hit, the coin fell out and the child was saved.

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- reference source : nichibun yokai database -

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. Legends about Yamanokami 山の神と伝説　.

from Hiroshima 広島県 to 山梨県 Yamanashi - will be updated.

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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

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sangaku shinkoo　山岳信仰 religion of the High Mountains is a different matter.

. Shrine, Shinto Shrine (jinja　神社) - Introduction .

. kami　神　Shinto deities - ABC-LIST - .

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GOKURAKU - Tsuru Sennin Crane

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. sennin　仙人と伝説 Legends about Immortals .
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Tsuru Sennin 鶴仙人 crane hermit
kookaku sennin 控鶴仙人 "Sennin riding a crane"
Chinese :
王子喬（おおしきょう）Oshikyo, Wangze Kao
費長房（ひちょうぼう）Hichobo, Fei Chang Fang
黄鶴楼（こうかくろう）Kokakuro. Huang He Lou

費長房　Hichobo (Fei Chang Fang)

He is riding a crane, holding a sutra scroll in his hands.
He was the disciple of the Sennin 壺公（ごこう) Goko. (ここう Koko).
He tried to become a sennin but could not pass the exam of his master. Nevertheless he became an immortal.
Some sources say he was eventually killed by 鬼神 a Demon Deity.
鶴に乗る仙人は鶴仙人といわれるが、費長房の他にも「王子喬（おうしきょう）」や「黄鶴楼（こうかくろう）」など、何人かいたようだ。
- reference : fukushima-museum.jp... -

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Sennin 壺公（ごこう) Goko. (壺公ここう Koko) "Honorable Jar"
Late Han period.
Koko Sennin was selling medicine in the market of 汝南の市場 Jonan. He had a 壺 jar hanging from his waist, and in the evening slipped into the jar and spent the night. He had lived in 天界 the heavenly realm, but was banished because he had commited a crime.
The warden of the market place, 費長房 Hichobo, was fascinated by him.
The special realm of Koko is called
kochuuten 壺中天 / こちゅうてん Kochuten, "Heaven in a Jar"
Often a name for a restaurant.

Some illustrations snow Goko slipping into a gourd
hyootan sennin 瓢箪仙人 "Gourd Immortal"

... . in ancient China, when gourds served the purpose of carrying water on long embarkments. In addition to simply water, medicine was also stored in the gourds; this is where the image of it as a "symbol of health, vitality and immortality " was derived.
mubyootan 六瓢箪 "six gourds", a pun with mubyoo 無病 "no illness"
and thus a specially auspicious symbol.
. hyootan 瓢箪 Hyotan gourd art motives .

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kookaku sennin 控鶴仙人 "Sennin riding a crane"

名草神社 Nagusa Jinja
Hyogo / 1755-6 Yokacho Ishihara, Yabu, Hyōgo

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北野天満宮 Kitano Tenmangu

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source : watanabe san facebook

飾り瓦 roof tile from 石作神社 Ishizukuri Jinja, Aichi
愛知県あま市甚目寺石作郷61

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Tsuru Sennin 亀仙人 the modern "Crane Immortal"

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Master Shen is the Crane Hermit (鶴仙人 Tsurusen'nin), Minister Shen, master of the Crane School and Mercenary Tao's older brother. Whilst they both trained at the Mutaito Training Academy, a rivalry quickly grew between Shen and Master Roshi. Master Shen and Mercenary Tao, likewise, began to fight over the smallest things. Eventually, a simple spilled bowl of rice was enough to break the brothers apart.
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- reference source : dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Shen...-

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OSHIKYO
Das Netsuke zeigt uns ein auf einer rechteckigen Siegelbasis ruhendes Rind, auf dem ein bärtiger Weiser gemütlich sitzt und ein langes Blasinstrument an seine Lippen hält. Das Sitzen auf einem Rind darzustellen, wobei sich meistens eine Union in meditativer Versunkenheit vorfindet, ist sehr beliebt und man kann den einfachen Bokudo genauso antreffen, wie den legendären Laoze, den Begründer des chinesischen Daoismus. Dieser war für den aus kaiserlichem Geblüt stammenden Oshikyo (chin. Wangze Kao) ein leuchtendes Vorbild, das ihn zu einem Leben als einsamer Eremit veranlaßte. Zusammen mit der Fee Fukyuko lebte er dreißig Jahre im Heshe Gebirge. Das alte Netsuke mit sehr schöner goldbrauner Patina zeigt ihn mit einer schon etwas abgegriffenen Haube und einem faltenreichen Umhang, die Schalmei schön angelegt und in einer Linie mit dem Rindsschweif, das Tier lauscht ebenfalls dem sphärischen Wohlklang.
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. sennin to netsuke 仙人と根付 Netsuke of Immortals .

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source : artsy.net/artwork/suzuki-harunobu...

Parodies of Hichobo and Urashima Taro
Suzuki Harunobu

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. sennin 天狗と仙人伝説 Legends about Tengu and Immortals .

. sennin　仙人と伝説 Legends about Immortals .

. 亀仙人 Kame Sennin - "The Turtle Immortal" .

. tsuru kame, tsurukame 鶴亀 Tortoise and Crane .
symbols of long life in China

. Japan - Shrines and Temples - Index .

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22 Mar 2018

SENNIN - Tsuru Sennin Crane

Some illustrations snow Goko slipping into a gourd
hyootan sennin 瓢箪仙人 "Gourd Immortal"

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kookaku sennin 控鶴仙人 "Sennin riding a crane"

名草神社 Nagusa Jinja
Hyogo / 1755-6 Yokacho Ishihara, Yabu, Hyōgo

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北野天満宮 Kitano Tenmangu

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