EDO - Hieda shrine Hieta Ota Kamata

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Hieda Jinja Shrine

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Hieda Jinja 薭田神社（ひえだじんじゃ）
大田区 Ōta-ku, Ota ward, Kamata // Hieta Shrine



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Along with Rokugo Jinja, Mita Hachiman Jinja, and Unoki Hachiman Jinja, Hieta Jinja is one of the four candidates to be the Hieta Jinja mentioned in the Engi-shiki.

The shrine legend tells us that in the year 709 the Buddhist monk, Gyōki, made shintai (divine images) of Amaterasu Ōkami, Hachiman, and Kasuga and enshrined them. That the three shintai existed and were worshipped is probably a matter of fact, the existence of what is now the Hieta Jinja is more one of conjecture.

The first historical reference to what may have been a Hieta Jinja is in the Veritable Record of Three Generations of Emperors of Japan, published in 901. In the Engi Shiki, completed in 967, mention is made of two shrines in Ebara-gun, Musashi Province, Hieta Jinja and Iwai Jinja. In 1872 it was designated a gōsha: it is currently a kenmusha of Kamata Hachiman Jinja.

The shrine was basically destroyed in the firebombing of April 15, 1945, and while a temporary main hall was quickly put together it was not until 1954 that it was properly rebuilt. Further work was done in 2000. The koma-inu, dating to 1959, are relatively recent.

- In-ground Shrines:
Tenso Jinja 天祖神社
Sanjūban Jinja 三十番神社
Inari Jinja 稲荷神社
Yakuso Jinja 薬祖神社

- Deities in residence
Hondawake-no-mikoto 誉田別命
Amaterasu Ōkami 天照大神
Takenouchi no Sukune 武内宿禰
Kazuragi Sotsuhiko 葛城襲津彦
Kasuga Ōkami 春日大神

Note that the two kami, Takenouchi-no-Sukune and Katsuragi Sotsuhiko are semi-historical persons, father and son , and Takenouchi is said to have been an advisor to five emperors between 71 and 399. His 73rd generation descendant, Takeuchi Mitshiro (竹内睦泰), is the current custodian of what is a fascinating, if fanciful, family history.

- source and photos : Rod Lucas

. Gyooki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu . (668 - 749)

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One of the enshrined deities here is the sun goddess, Amaterasu Oomikami, considered to be the creator of the Japanese people. On the right-hand side of the main structure there are three smaller shrines with their own torii gate. By one of the shrines there is a small pond with "pure water" written in kanji. In the pond you can see tiny fishes swimming actively.
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薭田神社(稗田神社)



東京都大田区蒲田3-2-10 Kamata
御祭神:誉田別命・天照大神・武内宿禰命・荒木田襲津彦命・春日大神
社格等:延喜式内社(小社論社)・郷社
例大祭:9月15日前後の土・日曜

式内社と呼ばれる古い格式をもつ神社である、平安時代（十世紀）に編纂された『延喜式』の神明帳に記載され、また『三代実録』に貞観六年（864）「武蔵国従五位下蒲田神を以て並びに官社に列す」とあるのが、この神社であろうといわれる。
社伝によれば、和銅二年（709）僧行基が天照、八幡、春日の三神体を刻んで安置し、鎌倉時代（十三世紀後半）に日蓮が村民の請いをいれて開眼したと伝えられる。江戸時代（十七〜十九世紀後半）には隣接の栄林寺が別当であったが、明治初年（十九世紀後半）の神仏分離により独立し、旧社格は郷社に定められた。
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EDO - Komagome and Sendagi district

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Komagome district

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Komagome 駒込 Komagome districts "groups of horses, crowds of horses"

There are two districts with this name, one in 文京区 Bunkyo ward and one in nearby 豊島区 Toshima ward.



Bunkyō
"Literature Capital" is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan. Situated in the middle of the ward area.
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Toshima
is one of the eight central wards of the Tokyo Metropolitan area. Located in the northern area of Tokyo,
Toshima is bordered by the wards of Nerima, Itabashi, and Kita wards, in the north, and Nakano, Shinjuku and Bunkyo in the south.
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Horses were the most important means of transportation and very important to the people of Edo.
. uma 馬, koma 駒 - horse amulets .
The horse is also one of the 12 zodiac animals

In the early Edo period, Komagome was a plain, where many wild horsed lived, giving reason for its naming.
Another theory goes back to
Yamato Takeru, who was surprised to see the many horses of his allies gathered here for his Eastern Expedition and had used the many trees to bind the horses on them.
He called out: uma komitari 馬込みたり "So many horses have come together here!"
The komi later changed to gome.

. Yamato Takeru 日本武尊 .


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駒込 Komagome district / 文京区 Bunkyo ward
文京区 本駒込一丁目から本駒込六丁目 Hon-Komagome from the 1st to the 6th sub-district

It is composed of many sub-districts
駒込片町、駒込曙町、駒込富士前町、駒込上富士前町、駒込吉祥寺町、駒込浅嘉町、駒込動坂町、駒込神明町、小石川駕籠町
There were at one time seven Komagome sub-districts, called
Komagome shichiken mura 駒込七軒村 Seven villages of Komagome.
They also used to be called
. Somei shichiken mura 染井七軒村 .
Somei was a cluster of small towns and villages that specialize in growing ornamental plants and trees to plant in the gardens of all the wealthy Daimyo in Edo.



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. Shrine Komagome Fuji Jinja 駒込富士神社 .
and the festival with mugiwara hebi 富士祭の麦藁蛇 the straw serpent


source :　yosukenaito.blog40.fc2.com

stamp with the straw serpent, from 1965

This shrine is located in :
5 Chome-7-20 Honkomagome, Bunkyo, Tokyo

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Hon-komagome-eki 本駒込駅 Honkomagome Station is a subway station on the Tokyo Metro Namboku Line in Bunkyo.

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Rikugien 六義園　'6 Poem Garden'
6-16-3 Hon-komagome, Bunkyo



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Rikugien is often considered Tokyo's most beautiful landscaped garden. Built by the 5th Tokugawa Shogun Tsunayoshi in the 17th century, it reproduces 88 scenes from famous Japanese poetry. It has a traditional Edo-period design with a pond, small hill and trees. The garden was later neglected following the death of it's key designer and was restored in 1878 by the owner of Mitsubishi, Iwasaki Yataro before it was donated to the Government in 1938.
It is one of Tokyo's more spacious parks and takes roughly an hour to explore, and longer during cherry-blossom and autumn-leaf viewing seasons. There are different tea houses serving traditional tea and sweets to the public (around ¥500 each), including Fukiage Chaya which is located on the water's edge. Seasonal flowers are a major attraction even in spring and summer, with plenty to explore and admire throughout the year.
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. Haiku about Rikugi-En .

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. Komagome Oiwake 駒込追分 .

The Nakasendo Highway branch off of the Nikko Highway at 駒込追分 Komagome-Oiwake.

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Komagome nasu 駒込茄子　eggplants from Komagome
. Edo yasai 江戸野菜　vegetables from Edo .



とくに、ナスは優れたものが出来たことから「駒込ナス」として江戸庶民に好まれ、徳川幕府が発行した「新編武蔵風土記稿」（１８２８年）にも記されています。農家はナス苗や種子の生産にも力を入れるようになり。タネ屋に卸していました。 現巣鴨駅の北西にある旧中山道にはタネ屋が集まり、さながらタネ屋街道の趣をなし、駒込、滝野川など周辺の農家が優良品種の採種に大きく貢献していました。

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駒込 Komagome district / 豊島区 Toshima ward
豊島区本駒込 Toshima ward, Hon-Komagome

In the Edo period, the village 駒込村 Komagome mura was located here.

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Is Hon-Komagome the Original Komagome?
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When the same place name has variations, the kanji 本 is sometimes read as moto "source" (in place names, often "old, original."
But Hon-komagome is different. In the former Tōkyō City, there was an ward called Hongō-ku 本郷区 Hongō Ward but in 1966 administrative units were re-assigned when the city became the Tōkyō Metropolis. At that time, Bunkyō Ward and Toshima Ward found themselves both in possession of areas called Komagome. The area in Toshima (the former Toshima District) kept the original name Komagome. The new Bunkyō Ward merged the former Hongō Ward name with the old name and so it became Hon(gō) + Komagome = Hon-komagome. So the meaning is not "Original Komagome" as some might think, the original Komagome is the area still called Komagome.
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Komagome-eki 駒込駅 Komagome Station is a railway station in Toshima.


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Komagome Sendagi choo 駒込千駄木町 Komagome Sendagi "with 1000 trees",
"a lot of trees"
文京区 Bunkyo ward 千駄木一丁目から千駄木五丁目 from the first to the 5th sub-district



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Sendagi is a mixed residential and shopping area between Nezu and Yanaka. Today the area is distinctly shitamachi. However, if you go there you'll notice slopes which are clear indicators that in the Edo Period the area was mixed with the elites living on the yamanote (high city) and the merchants and other people living on in the shitamachi (low city) while low ranking samurai naturally lived on the hillsides according to rank.
... 谷根千 Yanesen, an abbreviation based on the collective areas of 谷中 Yanaka, 根津 Nezu, and 千駄木 Sendagi.
The area is dotted with temples, shrines, shops dating as far back as the Edo Period, and is literally so steeped in history ...
The area was formerly part of Komagome Mura 駒込村 Komagome Village and in fact today is still officially part of Komagome. The name Komagome isn't attested until the Sengoku Period. One the other hand, 千駄木 Sendagi isn't attested until the early Edo Period when it appears as a label in a map. The label reads Ueno Tōzen'in mochi Komagome Sendagi o-hayashi 上野東漸院持ち駒込千駄木御林 the Komagome Sendagi o-hayashi which is controlled by Ueno Tōzen Temple.
Another early Edo Period map includes the label Ueno Kanshō'in mochi Komagome Sendagi o-hayashi 上野寒松院持ち駒込千駄木御林 the Komagome Sendagi o-hayashi which is controlled by Ueno Kanshō Temple. An 御林 o-hayashi was a hilltop wooded area owned by the shōgunate, but control of the area was granted to a lord or temple.
About 1656,
the former hilltop forest came to be the site of a daimyō residence of the lords of Bungo no Kuni Funai Han 豊後国府内藩 Funai Domain, Bungo Province (present day Oita Prefecture in Kyūshū). The family was the 大給松平家 Ōgyū Matsudaira, a samurai family from Mikawa no Kuni 三河国 Mikawa Province, Tokugawa Ieyasu's homeland. As Edo depended on the shōgunate and the shōgun himself was from Mikawa, having a Mikawa family bearing the name Matsudaira bolstered the area's prestige[. The hill became a yamanote town comprised of high ranking samurai residences. It seems that because the Ōgyū residence was first the prestigious palace built on the hilltop, the area came to be to be known as Ōgyūzaka 大給坂 Ōgyū Hill. If you go to the top of Ōgyūzaka there is a crappy little park with a huge gingko tree called the 大銀杏 Ōichō. They say this tree stood inside the original Ōgyū property.
Nearby
is another hill called 道灌山 Dōkanyama. It's said that at the end of the Muromachi Period, 太田道灌 Ōta Dōkan had a branch castle here which he built for tactical support of Edo-jō 江戸城 Edo Castle.
..... 千駄 senda was another word for takusan 沢山 a lot.
- The 1000 Da Theory - firewood
da 駄 is a unit of measurement that describe how much stuff you can put on a horse's back.
- The Ōta Dōkan Did It Theory
he re-forested the area by planting sendan 栴檀 Chinaberry trees here.
- It's a Reference to a Traditional Japanese Prayer For Rain
..... amagoi 雨乞い prayer for rain. In the common parlance, this activity was called 千駄焚き senda-taki burning 1000 da.
There is also the district 千駄ヶ谷 Sendagaya.
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Sendagi 千駄木


Sendagi Dango-zaka Hanayashiki
Hiroshige

This area was originally forest land called 千駄木御林 Sendagi Ohayashi, and was contributed as a supply area for firewood after the construction of Ueno Kan'ei-ji Temple. It is said that the area was named Sendagi because senda was the amount of goods carried by a thousand horses and a senda of firewood was cut each day. Because the top of 団子坂 Dango-zaka Hill, which runs from Sendagi to Yanaka and Ueno, overlooks 佃沖 Tsukuda-oki , it was also known as 汐見坂 Shiomi-zaka Hill, and there were many dango (rice dumpling) shops along the roadside. There were many gardeners on top of the hill, and some sort of garden plants could be seen throughout the year. In 1856, a gardener who cultivated chrysanthemum moved to Sendagi from 染井 Somei, and the area became known for kiku ningyo (dolls wearing clothing made of chrysanthemums).
At the bottom of the hill, the 谷戸川 Yato-gawa River (Aizome-gawa River) threaded between the Hongo and Ueno plateaus, but it was turned into a culvert after the Great Kanto Earthquake. It is said a gardener named 宇平治 Uheiji opened a flower garden called 紫泉亭 Shisentei and established a pond.
- source : ndl.go.jp/landmarks/e/sights/sendagi -


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Sendagi
Sendagi Station is located in the Sendagi district of Bunkyo Ward of Tokyo. It is operated by Tokyo Metro for its Chiyoda Subway Line.
Sendagi is part of the historical area known as 谷根千　Yanesen.
The atmosphere of this simple and cozy residential district still holds signs of the Edo period. One can still find traditional wooden houses, small old-styled pubs (Izakaya), and a large number of old temples here mainly because this area has miraculously survived the 1923 Kanto earthquake and the World War II bombings. Walking through the narrow streets of Sendagi will take you to many of these sights. Among the most prominent of these are:
Daienji Temple
Choanji Temple
Tennoji Temple
Yanaka Cemetery
Asakura Choso Museum ( Choso Sculpture Hall )
Yanaka Ginza
- source : tokyo-tokyo.com/Sendagi -


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Sendagi Dango-zaka Hanayashiki
Flower Pavilion on Dangozaka Hill in Sendagi - Hiroshige
Yanaka, Nezu, Sendagi 谷中・根津・千駄木 - - 谷根千 Yanesen

- reference : aizome-gawa -
"Aizome Gawa" (The Resurrection of a Woman at Aizome-gawa River), Noh Drama

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EDO - Kokubunji Koigakubo district

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Kokubunji city Koigakubo

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Kokubunji shi 国分寺市 Kokubunji city



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Kokubunji is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis.
Kokubunji is located on the Musashino Terrace of western Tokyo, approximately in the geographic centre of Tokyo Metropolis.
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The area of present-day Kokubunji was part of ancient Musashi Province, and was the site of the Nara period Provincial temple of that province. In the post-Meiji Restoration reform of 1878, the area became part of Kita^Tama District in Kanagawa Prefecture. The village of Kokubunji was created on April 1, 1889 with the establishment of municipalities law. Kita-Tama District was transferred to the administrative control of Tokyo Metropolis on April 1, 1893. Kokubunji was elevated to town status in 1940, and to city status on November 3, 1964.
- source : wikipedia

. Musashi no Kuni 武蔵国 Musashi Province .


. Kokubunji 国分寺 Kokubun-Ji temples .
A system of regional provincial temples everywhere in Japan, established by Emperor Shomu Tenno (701 – 756) ).


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　Koigakubo, Koi-ga-kubo 恋ヶ窪 "cave of love"
Kokubunji city, 東 Higashi-Koigakubo, 西 Nishi-Koigakubo, Eastern and Western sub-district

It is located on a plain and has rich water supplies, including the river 野川 Nogawa from Higashikoigakubo, flowing into the river 摩川水 Tamagawa.
In the many ponds of old lived koi 鯉 carp fish, giving a name to the area, 鯉ヶ窪 "hollow with carp fish".



The city used to be a postal station along the Kamakura Kaido Highway with many red-light districts.

The name might also relate to a story around 1200.
This is the love story of Hatakeyama Shigetada and the courtesan 夙妻太夫 Asazuma Dayu.


source : onboumaru : 夙妻太夫 -

Shigetada was the lord of the land, but Asazuma was just a very beautiful prostitute of the village. Shigetada's main residence was in 埼玉県大里郡川本庁 Saitama and on his way to and from Kamakure he stopped here to see his beloved. Then Shigetada was ordered to go to Western Japan to fight. When he told Asazuma about his absence, she felt she would never see him again and was very sad. She begged him to take her with him. This was not possible so she remained here, crying all day long.
Another visitor fell in love with Asazuma, but she did not accept him as her lover.



When she heard of the death of Shigetada, she was overcome with grief and threw herself into the pond 姿見の池 Sugatami no Ike.
She was buried near the pond and a pine tree grew near her grave. This tree stretched all its branches to the West, as if to find her lover far away. The pine needles had 一葉 only one needle, an expression of her singular love for Shigetada.
The pond has been filled in 1965, but was reopened in 1998, now called 遊水地 Yusuichi.
- You might have guessed, Shigetada had not died at all and eventually came back. When he learned the fate of Asazuma, he grieved and built a small temple for her, named 無量山道成寺 Dojo-Ji. He had a statue of Amida Nyorai made and prayed there every day.

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Koigakubo, Amida-dō hall, Keisei-ga-matsu, Gozu-tennō Shrine
Koigakubo thrived since ancient times as an inn post on the highway which links the Tōhoku and Hokuriku Regions to Kyoto and Kamakura. Sugatami-no-Ike pond was a place around here where a prostitute named Asazuma Dayū drowned herself overwhelmed by her sorrow when she heard the news that Hatakeyama Shigetada, a warlord who loved her dearly, had been killed in a battle.
The pine tree of matchless beauty is a burial mound for Asazuma and Amida-dō hall is said to have been built for Shigetada who died in the war and there remained many historic spots related to Shigetada and Asazuma in Koigakubo.


source : library.metro.tokyo.jp/portals...

. Hatakeyama Shigetada (畠山重忠, 1164–1205) .
Originally fighting for the Taira clan, he switched sides for the battle of Dan-no-ura, and ended the war on the winning side.

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Koigakubo Station is a railway station in Kokubunji, Tokyo. It is operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway. It was opened on 10 February 1955.

There are only four station names that start with koi 恋 love.
The other three are
・三陸鉄道　恋し浜駅 Koishihama station, Sanriku Tetsudo
・智頭急行　恋山形駅 Koi Yamagata station in Tottori
・北海道旅客鉄道　母恋駅 Bokoi station, Hokkaido




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紫陽花や練り塀長き国分寺
ajisai ya nerihei nagaki Kokubunji

hydrangeas -
the long stone-mud-wall
of temple Kokubun-Ji

anonymous
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EDO - Toshima and Sugamo district

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Toshima ward Sugamo

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Toshima 豊島区 Toshima ward, "Rich Island"


source :　ぐるっと豊島

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Toshima is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the eight central wards of the Tokyo Metropolitan area. Located in the northern area of Tokyo, Toshima is bordered by the wards of Nerima, Itabashi, and Kita wards, in the north, and Nakano, Shinjuku and Bunkyo in the south.
The ward was founded on March 15, 1947, and reached a peak resident population of 370,000 in 1965.
..... Although Toshima is a ward, it is referred to as a city. The ward offices are located in Ikebukuro, which is also the commercial and entertainment center of Toshima.
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Toshima was formed in 1932 by the merger of four towns, Sugamochō, Nishi-sugamochō, Takadachō, and Nagasakichō, bordered by the quickly expanding former city of Tokyo.
The area evolved from a suburban agricultural district in the Edo period to the urban commercial center that it is today. The growth was fueled by the construction of various rail lines built in the Meiji and Taishō periods.
The former Somei village, now part of Toshima, is the birthplace of the Somei Yoshino, Japan's most popular variety of sakura (cherry blossom tree). The variety was developed at the end of the Edo period.
- source : wikipedia


. the Toshima-shi 豊島氏 Toshima Clan .
and the Nerima　練馬区　Nerima ward



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Sugamo 巣鴨 Sugamo district "ducks nest"
Toshima ward, Sugamo sub-district 1 - 5.


Sugamo kooshinzuka 巣鴨庚申塚 Koshinzuka mound
江戸名所図会 Edo Meisho Zue

The area used to be a set of swamps, where many water fowl hat their nest (su 巣), especially the ducks (kamo 鴨)- as is written in an old guide book of 1722.
But maybe there is a different reason for the name, which had been written with various characters :
須賀茂　洲鴨　菅面　洲処しやくじい面　洲処面
すが suga refers to a mound of sand carried along by a river, like a"a field of sand" 砂原.
Originally it was suga-mo.


In the Edo period, the Nakasendo Highway passed through the area and it begun to prosper as a rest station. Since 1737, townspeople were allowed to live here. Many gardeners came to live here.

. Somei 染井 district in Edo .
Many uekiya　植木屋, niwashi　庭師　gardeners lived here and in Sugamo.

On the old print of Edo above there are many rest shops along the road beside the mound. They sold dumplings and water melons to the travelers.
Around 1740, potted chrysanthemums were sold here, a well-loved hobby of the Edo population. They even grew a chrysanthemum in the shape of Mount Fujisan and ever more visitors came to Sugamo.



To our day, the Chrysanthemum festival in Sugamo is now well-loved.

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Jizō-dōri 地蔵通り Jizo-dori
is a famous shopping street for the older generation. It is therefore better known as "Harajuku of the old ladies".

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Harajuku may be Tokyo's centre for flamboyant youth fashion, but Sugamo is where the golden generation go to strut their styles. This otherwise unspectacular corner of Toshima ward is famed for its Jizo-dori, an 800m shopping street where elderly folks from all over the city and further afield stroll, shop and spend quality time with each other.
Although the area essentially owes its popularity among retirees to a single statue – a depiction of the Jizo Bodhisattva housed at Koganji Temple (3-35-2 Sugamo, Toshima-ku, 03 3917 8221), more on that in a moment – its charm has far deeper roots nowadays. Passing underneath the sign that marks the entrance to Jizo-dori – a ubiquitous prop on Japanese television whenever anything senior-related gets airtime – you'll soon notice that the doorways to virtually every shop, café, clinic and pub lining the street are free of stairs or other obstacles, with most wide enough to be entered in wheelchair.
Equally accessible is the grand temple around which Jizo-dori originally developed, where visitors from near and far queue up for their turn to wash the iron likeness of Togenuki Jizo, the miracle-making statue said to have the power to heal any ailment. Doing the deed at least once a month is supposed to ensure optimal health benefits – a dictate much appreciated by local merchants and eateries, we're sure.
..... Visiting Sugamo is best done on the fourth, 14th or 24th day of the month, when local shops and restaurants put out stalls over the length of Jizo-dori and the line at Koganji snakes out through the temple gates. If you can't make it on any of these dates, consider going on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, when the shopping street is off limits to cars between noon and 6pm (3-6pm on other days).
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... The district's popular, 800 meter long Jizo Dori shopping street is also affectionately known as the "Old Ladies' Harajuku" in lighthearted comparison to the Harajuku district's status as one of Japan's foremost youthful shopping and fashion destinations.

The flat and handicap accessible shopping street is lined by over 200 shops that sell clothing, traditional food and other goods marketed toward the elderly. Among the most popular items is the district's signature red underwear, which comes in a variety of styles and is thought to bring luck to the wearer. Sugamo is also known for its traditional sweets, especially Shio-Daifuku, pounded rice cakes that contain sweet bean paste and salt to moderate the sweetness.
The original reason for Sugamo's popularity is found at Koganji Temple halfway down the shopping street.
The small temple is home to the highly popular Togenuki Jizo statue which depicts the popular Jizo Bodhisattva and is thought to help heal ailments. People line up in a queue to wash the statue with small hand towels which they then press to their ailing body part in hope of relief. Sugamo becomes particularly lively on the 4th, 14th and 24th of every month when the temple holds a small festival.
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Kooganji 高岩寺 Kogan-Ji



togenuki, toge-nuki Jizoo とげぬき地蔵　Toge nuki Jizo, "Thorn-pulling Jizo"


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If you have an ache or an ailment that has been bugging you, a visit to the Togenuki Jizo Kouganji Temple may just be the cure you need. Millions visit the historic Buddhist temple, located minutes by foot from Sugamo Station on the JR Yamanote Line, to pay their respects each year.
The chief Buddhist image of the temple is the Enmei Jizo Bosatsu who, legend has it, has the powers to miraculously heal illnesses and extend one's life. The name Togenuki, meanwhile, means "thorn removal," and has its roots in Japanese folklore. A housemaid once accidentally swallowed a needle, which she managed to spit out after ingesting a piece of paper that bore the image of the Jizo deity. You can still buy this talisman, known as the o-sugata, at the temple — though a more common practice now is to apply it on a bothersome body part.
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. Jizō - Jizo Bosatsu 地蔵菩薩 - Introduction .

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. Shinshooji 真性寺 / 眞性寺 Shinsho-Ji .
医王山 Iozan　東光院 Toko-In　真性寺 Shinsho-Ji
豊島区巣鴨3-21-21 / 3 Chome-21-21 Sugamo, Toshima ward


. Zenyooji 善養寺 Temple Zenyo-Ji .
- 薬王山 Yakuozan　延寿院　善養寺 Zenyo-Ji
豊島区西巣鴨4-8-25 / Toshima ward, Nishi-Sugamo, 4 Chome 8-25


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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

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reimu 霊夢 oracle dream
Around 1802, the younger brother of a Samurai family in Sugamo had a special dream: In 三方 Mikata a cut-off head of a criminal had been put on show with a number written on his head.
At the same time in 谷中 Yanaka at the temple 感応寺 Kanno-Ji there was a tomikuji 富くじ lottery, so he bought a ticked with that number and indeed, he won !!

. tomikuji, takarakuji 宝くじ　/ 富籤 lottery in Edo .



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There was a Deity who wanted to eas 1000 children. He would pass a home where the skin of みかん a bitter summer orange was divided into three parts and hung up at the entrance. People who did not do this had their children die. During an epidemy in Edo, people say the Deity has come to eat children.
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. Mejiro Fudo Temple 目白不動 Fudo with white eyes .
豊島区高田2-12-39
豊山新長谷寺 Shinchokokuji (Shin-Hasedera) in Toshima has a statue of Fudo Myo-O, made by Kobo Daishi himself.
When Kobo Daishi was in 荷沢河, 大日如来 Dainichi Nyorai appeared to him and then changed into Fudo Myo-O.
The Deity wielded its own sword and cut off its left arm at the ellbow. A lot of smoke and flames came out of this burning wound.
Kobo Daishi made the statue just as he had seen this.



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Komagome 駒込

. Shrine Komagome Fuji Jinja 駒込富士神社 .
and the festival with mugiwara hebi 富士祭の麦藁蛇 the straw serpent


source :　yosukenaito.blog40.fc2.com

stamp with the straw serpent, from 1965

This shrine is located in :
5 Chome-7-20 Honkomagome, Bunkyo, Tokyo

. Komagome 駒込 Komagome districts in Tokyo .
There are two districts with this name, one in 文京区 Bunkyo ward and one in 豊島区 Toshima ward.


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. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo　江戸の名所 .

. 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 .

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EDO - Igusamura village

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Igusa village Suginami

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Igusamura, Igusa mura 井草村 Igusa village
. Suginami 杉並区 Suginami ward . from the first to the 5th sub-district
Kami-Igusa, Shimo-Igusa



. igusa 藺草（いぐさ）rushes, Juncus effusus .
Igusa is the main material for the Tatami floor mats.

- old name of 1654: 武州多摩郡井草村 Bushu Tama Igusa mura
The part in the West, closer to downtown Edo, became 上井草村 Kami (upper).
The part in the East, further away, became 下井草村 Shimo (lower).
Apart from these two, Igusa village is now part of 今川 Imagawa, 善福寺 Zenpuku-Ji, 桃井 Momoi, and Shimizu 清水 and even 上荻 Kami-Ogi and 西荻 Nishi-Ogi.



Igusamori kooen 井草森公園（四丁目）Igusamori Park
Suginami, Igusa, 4−12-1


There are various theories about the name of this village.
1 - The area around 善福寺池 Zenpukuji-Ike pond and 妙正寺池 Myoshoji-Ike pond was a swamp where 藺草 Igusa was growing wild.
2 - ashi 葦 reed was growing in the ponds, then called ike no kusa 池の草. Ikenokusa was then shortened to イグサ Igusa 葦草.
3 - Between the ponds of Zenpuku-Ji and Myosho-Ji there was a grassland. Between pond 池（井）i and soogen 草原 grassland, using the Kanji 井草.
4 - The developer of the area was 長左衛門 Chozaemon, who used the family name 井口 Iguchi. He was also called 草分け長左衛門 Kusawake Chozaemon. kusawake, lit. "dividing the grass and weeds" is a pioneer in farming areas. His familiar name, Iguchi no Kusawake, was then shortened to 井草.

The village started developing, first Kami and Shimo Igusa, around 1644.
Kami-Igusa used to be called 遅野井村 Osonoi mura "slow wilderness well".
This village name comes with a legend of itself.

In 1189, when Minamoto no Yoritomo was on his way to fight the people of Tohoku he passed this area and his soldiers felt very thirsty. They begun digging for water in the ground with their arrows. Finally some water came sprouting out, but very slowly (osoi　遅い). Yoritomo complainde "osoi no" (this is sooo slow)". Eventually this was written as Osonoi.

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Around 1827, Osonoi village changed the name to Kami-Igusa.

Igusa village was close to the 青梅街道 Ome Kaido highway.

Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered、板倉重宗 Iwakura Shigemune (1586 - 1657) and 井上正利 Inoue Masatoshi (1606 - 1675) to be the 領主 lords of the village.
In 1645, Igusa mura became the land of Hatamoto 今川直房 Imagawa Naofusa (1594 - 1662) and stayed that way until the Meiji period.


Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝 (1147 – 1199)
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Igusa Hachimangu Shrine 井草八幡宮
Kami-Igusa 上井草商店街 / 1-33-1. Zenpuku-ji, Suginami-ku



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Igusa Hachimangu Shrine has many kinds of plants and trees in the spacious compound, including some cherry trees that are very impressive when the blossoms are in full bloom. Cherry trees along the north approach and two huge lanterns welcome visitors.
The shrine is believed to have been founded in around 1190. In front of the main shrine there used to be a red pine tree and black pine tree planted around 1200 by the Shogun Yoritomo Minamoto. Those trees withered but parts of the roots are now exhibited along the corridor of the front shrine. In 1664 Ujinari Imagawa, an influential samurai of this area, renovated the main shrine, and this vermillion-lacquered shrine is the Suginami's oldest wooden construction and is still preserved within the main shrine.
Igusa Hachiman Shrine
is famous for yabusame that is held every five years. Yabusame is the art of shooting arrows on horseback. When it first started in around 900, it was just a martial art, but later it became a ritual for Shogun families. When they wished to ward off evil spirits or for a new-born baby's good health, yabusame was performed.
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Igusa Hachimangu Shrine is a Japanese shrine in Tokyo with a long history. It is said that this shrine was originally built in the Heian Period when samurais had much less power than that of several aristocrats. The Heian period started in 794 and ended about 900 years ago, so Igusa Hachimangu has a really long history.
After the original one was built,
several shoguns prayed for winning the war. For example, Minamoto no Yoritomo did it before his final battle to rule Japan against the enemy force in the northern Japan. Finally he won the battle and found the Kamakura shogunate which means he became the practical ruler of Japan.

The god of Igusa Hachimangu Shrine has some power.
1. Solving troubles around you smoothly and speedily.
2. Giving you an opportunity when you messed up.

Minamoto no Yoritomo defeated the war and was about to die before his battle against the north Japanese.
Are you ready for some sort of "revenge"?
Then Igusa Hachimangu Shrine will give you a special power just like it did for Minamoto no Yoritomo.
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. yabusame 流鏑馬 archery on horseback .
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. Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government .

. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo　江戸の名所 .

. 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 .


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SENNIN - Kyotai Osho Miidera

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Sennin Kyotai Osho

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. sennin　仙人と伝説 Legends about Immortals .
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Kyootai Osho 教待和尚 Kyotai Osho, Priest Kyotai

He is Nr. 14 of
. 日本の仙人37人 - The 37 Immortals of Japan .


教待堂 Kyotai Do Hall
at temple Miidera, Shiga, Otsu.

He was an old priest taking care of Miidera until priest 智証大師 Chisho Daishi came to the temple.
In the Kyotaido Hall in honor of Kyotai there is a statue of the priest.



After Chisho's arrival, Kyotai went into a cave and did not come out again.
Later Chisho Daishi put up a stone memorial on the cave.

Since olden times, people who come here to become a monk have their hair cut and offer it on the altar of this hall.
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. Miidera, Mii-dera 三井寺 Temple Mii .


. Chisho Daishi 智証大師 / 智證大師 / Enchin 圓珍 / 円珍 .
(814 - 891) nephew of Kobo Daishi

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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 .


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EDO - Akishima Haijima cities

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Akishima city

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Akishima city 昭島市
located in the western part of Tokyo



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Akishima is in the foothills of the Okutama Mountains of western Tokyo, along the bank of the Tama River at an elevation between 76 and 171 meters above sea level. It is located approximately 35 kilometers from central Tokyo.
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The area of present-day Akishima was part of ancient Musashi Province, and a center for sericulture. In the post–Meiji Restoration reform of July 22, 1878, the area became part of Kita-Tama District in Kanagawa Prefecture. Haiji, Nakagami, and Sotoyatsu villages were created on April 1, 1889, with the establishment of municipalities law. The entire district was transferred to the control of Tokyo Metropolis on April 1, 1893. The latter two villages merged on January 1, 1928, to form Shōwa Village.
Shōwa
was elevated to town status on January 1, 1941, and through merger with the village of Haiji on May 1, 1954, became the city of Akishima.
The name comes from the kun'yomi reding of the first kanji in the name of the former town of Shōwa, and the on'yomi of the second kanji in the name of the former village of Haijima.
Akishima
was developed as an industrial suburb of Tokyo, and still has large factories operated by Hoya Corporation, JEOL, Japan Aviation Electronics, Fostex, Shōwa Aircraft Industry Co., and others. The city is also a bedroom community for the Tokyo metropolitan area.
- Noted people from Akishima
Takao Koyama, screenwriter and novelist
Satoshi Koizumi, professional soccer player
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Akishima Onsen 昭島温泉 湯楽の里 Hot Sprint
東京都昭島市美堀町3-14-10 // 3 Chome-14-10 Mihorichō Akishima-shi



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Yamanokami Kofun Site in Akishima City 昭島市
? 浄土古墳

. Yamanokami kofun 山の神古墳 Yamanokami tumulus .


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Haijima 拝島町　"island of reverence"　
昭島市拝島町

In the Edo period, it was called Haijima mura 拝島村 village.
It was a postal station for the government officials working in Hachioji, sennin dooshin　千人同心 Hachioji Guards. They were supervising the highways and looking out for fires.
Haijima was just a small village surrounded by fields and forests.

The name dates back to a legend.
Once upon a time, down from the river Tamagawa, there came a statue of Dainichi Nyorai, stopping at a sandbank (shima (-jima 島 island). The statue kept sending out light even at night. The villagers were in awe and kept praying to it (hai 拝).
Before this event, the island was already called 榛島 Haijima, written with the kanji for 榛　
han no ki ハンノキ Japanese alder 榛の木 - Alnus japonica, East Asian alder

This tree grows well in mountains near rivers, its wood is used for building material and firewood, also for making furniture. The bark and leaves were used for dyeing.
The area might have been called Hannokijima, eventually shortened to Haijima.

There are place names like Haibara　榛原 in Nara and Shizuoka.　

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source : blog.livedoor.jp/tntnnk/archives...

昭島市は昭和２９年、拝島町と８つの村が合併してできました。
他の地域は小さな部落の集合体ですが、拝島だけは少し様相がちがいました。
玉川上水は江戸の庶民の飲み水として徳川幕府が開削、１年と数ヶ月で１６５３年、完成しました。
当時、拝島周辺は小荷田付近から湿地帯で、あまり住みよい環境とは言えませんでした。
しかし玉川上水完成により、拝島周辺の環境はより良い環境整備の下地が整ったのでした。
地元民達の強い要望で拝島に分水を引き込む計画は実行されました。
１６５５年、拝島分水は完成しました。

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Haijima Daishi 拝島大師 Temple
Akishima, Haijimacho, 1−6−15 // 昭島市拝島町1－6－15

拝島大師だるま市 Daruma Market
拝島大師本覚院 Haijima Daishi Hongaku-In

Daruma Market at Haijima,




Daruma dolls from Tama are sold mostly at the 600 or more stalls.
The market is held on January 2 and 3, to celebrate Ganzan Daishi.

拝島大師は厄よけのお大師さん
元三大師（慈恵大師）... 多摩だるま



. Daruma Markets in Japan .

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Haijima Station 拝島駅 Haijima-eki
The station opened on 19 November 1894. The Seibu station opened on 15 May 1968.
a railway station in Akishima, Tokyo, jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the private railway operator Seibu Railway.
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. Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government .

. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo　江戸の名所 .

. Doing Business in Edo - 商売　- Introduction .

. shokunin 職人 craftsman, craftsmen, artisan, Handwerker .

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. Japanese Architecture - The Japanese Home .

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HEIAN - Yamanokami Kagawa legends

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Yama no Kami Regional 14 Kagawa

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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 Kagawa 香川県

. Legends about Yamanokami 山の神と伝説　.

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山の神展望台 Yamanokami Tenbodai Observatory
丸亀市広島町茂浦 Hiroshimacho village, Moura, Marugame, Kagawa



. Yama-no-kami Kofungun 山ノ神古墳群 Yamanokami Kofungun .
香川県坂出市加茂町山の神下 / Yamanokami shita, Kamocho, Sakaide, Kagawa "below Yama no Kami Tumulus"

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Japan's Smallest Prefecture, Kagawa, has the best Udon in the world, Sanuki udon!
. 讃岐うどん Sanuki udon noodles .
讃岐国


手打ちうどん 山の神　hand-made Udon - Yama no Kami
大阪府大阪市北区曽根崎新地 - Restaurant in Osaka


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. Yamanokami and his messenger, the Yamainu 山犬 Wolf .
仲多度郡 Nakatado district 琴南町 Kotonami



In Sanuki there are no really tall mountains. Mount 飯野山 Inoyama, better known as 讃岐富士 Sanuki Fuji,
has a flat top almost like a soup bowl. The 四国山脈 Shikoku Mountain Range is difficult to access, with thick forests and dark mountain paths. There are few people, and this is an area to get lost easily. If people were not careful, they might meet a Yokai monster or even worse, not find their way back home.
Under these difficult natural conditions, the villagers in former times took to Yamanokami for help and protection. Before going to the forest for work, they would make offerings and prayers to 山の神さま Yama no Kami sama, a female deity.
Her messenger was the wolf.
Here in Sanuki he was a gentle helper and path finder for lost people. When they called for him in the forest, a wolf would show up and lead the way to the village.


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ryuuoosan no kai 竜王山の怪 Ryuo-San no kai monster
At 竜王山 Mount Ryuosan "Dragon King Mountain", 1060 m high, people sometimes hear the voice of children, even if nobody is there. Sometimes there is a loud noise, sometimes someone is laughign, even a huge priest has been seen roaming around.
Fishermen can see a light above the mountain from their boats. They say it is the Deity of the Mountain having some fun up there.


ushi no yoo na mono 牛のようなもの like a bull
A man named 岡馬次郎 Okaba Jiro went to his water mill for work. On the way he passed Mount 菅生のトキ Sugo no Toki when he saw something like a bull running past. The ground begun to shake and the bull run up to the top of the mountain. Back home Jiro asked the other villagers, but they had not felt any shaking of the ground.
It must have been the local Yamanokami, taking a ride.


yamaneko 山猫 mountain cat
A man was making charcoal, taking them out in the middle of the night, when he heard the voice of a cat. The voice got louder and louder and he thought the cat must have been frightened by Yamanokami.
From this day on, he never worked at night in the mountain.




.......................................................................　Higashi-Kagawa 東かがわ市 .....

The 7th day of the first lunar month is ヤマノカミノキダネマキ the day when Yamanokami plants the seeds for new trees in the forest.
People are not allowed to go to the mountain on this day. If someone dares to go, he might meet Yamanokami and get lost for ever, never to come back. Or he might get a severe wound on his head.
Some families keep this taboo on the ninth day of the first lunar month.




.......................................................................　Marugame 丸亀市 .....
手島町 Teshima

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Yamanokami performs 護摩を焚く special fire rituals and people are not allowed to go to the mountain.





.......................................................................　Nakatado district 仲多度郡 .....
琴南町 Kotonami


Every month on the ninth day, people do not go to the mountain. This is a day to celebrate Yamanokami with food offerings.
Other families do not go to the mountain on the 7th day of the first, fifth and ninth lunar month.



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- reference source : nichibun yokai database -

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. Legends about Yamanokami 山の神と伝説　.

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

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