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. Ariakeyama 有明山 Ariakesan, Mount Ariake - Nagano
Nobutaroo 信太郎 Nobutaro
Once Nobutaro went with a friend to 有明山 Mount Ariakeyama.
When they tried to jump over the Tenguiwa 天狗岩 Tengu boulder, their bodies became an enormous in size and they jumped over 馬羅尾谷 Baraodani valley and disappeared.
Nobutaro's father 久作 Kyusaku, who had lost his only son, went everywhere to look for him. He could not find him and had to work in the fields all alone from that time on.
He build a small sanctuary for Nobutaro, 信の宮 Nobu no Miya.
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有明山 Mount Ariakeyama (2268m).
Ariakeyama is also called Shino Fuji 信濃富士 Mount Fuji of the Shino region.
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Ariake-yama (2268m)
Today, rather few people know Ariake-yama.
Of those who do, not many pay the mountain much regard. And, although the ridgeways between Yari-ga-take and Tsubakuro may be crowded enough to qualify as an Alpine “Ginza”, fewer still pay much attention to Ariake-yama even when they find it rearing up at them on their way to the foot of Tsubakuro. Rather, their eyes are drawn to the more imposing heights beyond. Ariake, it seems, has been consigned to the meizan of past ages.
In former times, though, people would direct their gaze not to those indistinct higher peaks but to the shapely mountain right in front of them, revering Ariake-yama as the Mt Fuji of Shinano Province. In an age when the Northern Alps were still “terra incognita”,
Ariake was celebrated by no less a poet than Monk Saigyō:
In Shinano on a day
It sent me awestruck on the way
To Hosono, the sight
Of mighty Ariake on the right
And then there are these lines by Monk Yūgyō:
By this moon’s kindly light
I will not lose the narrow
Road to Hosono, although
It leads me under Ariake’s height
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- Ariake-yama seen from Otensho-dake; print by Yoshida Hiroshi -
According to an old chronicle, the mountain was opened in the second year of Daidō (807), when the great avatar Tohanachi Gongen was enshrined there at a place sacred to Ame-no-Uzume, where this goddess of dawn, mirth and revelry had manifested herself as a Buddha to save all living things. The mountain was once called Tohanachi-dake or “Door Away Peak”, in honour of the legend in which the sun goddess Amaterasu shut herself up in a cave and was coaxed out again when the goddess Ame-no-Uzume performed a comical dance. At which the god Tajikarawo-no-mikoto wrenched away the cave’s door and hurled it to earth at this very spot.
I came across this chronicle, the Record of Ariake’s Inauguration (Ariake Kaizan Ryakki), in Mr Kumahara Masao’s book on the dawn of Japanese mountaineering. By this account, the mountain mystic Yūkai, finding it lamentable that people had altogether given up climbing this sacred mountain, set out with his youngest brother in the sixth year of Kyōho (1721) together with fifteen or so villagers from the hamlet of Itadori at the mountain’s foot, and found his way over trackless slopes to the summit. There they stayed overnight and descended the next day.
The first path up the mountain was presumably opened on this occasion, as the chronicle says. And after a small shrine was installed on the summit, people came every summer, from far and wide, in droves to climb the mountain.
For evidence that this custom lasted into the Meiji period, we need look no further than Walter Weston, the mountaineering missionary and so-called Father of the Japan Alps, who climbed Ariake on August 14, 1912, in the first year of Taishō. Presumably he’d heard of Ariake’s reputation as a “meizan” of long standing. Most people associate Weston with Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps (1896), and rather fewer are aware of his later book, The Playground of the Far East (1918), which also concerns itself mainly with the mountains of Japan. This is probably because there is no translation. It is in this later book that he describes his ascent of Ariake.
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And then it’s easy to understand how Ariake came by its title of Shinano-Fuji.
- source : onehundredmountains.blogspot.jp... -
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Azuma fushi song 安曇節
「なにを思案の有明山に小首かしげて出たわらび」と安曇節にも歌われ、その形から信濃富士とも呼ばれる山。ここにも天の岩戸伝説があり、手力雄命が岩戸を開いて、世の中が明るくなったので有明山というそうです。魏石鬼を田村麻呂が退治したという伝説もあります。・長野県安曇野市と松川村にまたがる。
- reference source : toki.moo 961 - - tba
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. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
Nakatsuna koo 中綱湖 Lake Nakatsuna
Once upon a time, Mount Ariake and Lake Nakatsuna were fighting about which one was higher.
Then one day a pregnant woman came along and looked at mount Ariakeyama. She said laughingly: "Well Ariakeyama is not that high ... "
Since that time Mount Ariakeyama stoppe getting higher.
hachimen daioo 八面大王 oni 鬼 Demon
有明山のふもとに住む弥左衛門は息子の弥助が幼いうちに八面大王という鬼にさらわれた。立派に成長した弥助はあるとき大きな山鳥を助けた。それから３日して弥助は美しい娘を娶った。そのうちまた八面大王が暴れ始めた。坂上田村麻呂が観音堂で祈ったところ、特定の山鳥の尾を矢にするよう言われた。その話を聞いた弥助は悩んだが、嫁がそれを持ってきた。嫁は山鳥の化身であり、その後姿を消した。その矢で八面大王は退治された。
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有明山のふもとに住んでいた弥左衛門は薬草を採りに行って、そのまま八面大王という鬼にさらわれた。妻は１人で幼い息子の弥助を育て、弥助はやがて立派に成長した。ある年、弥助は大きな山鳥を助けてやった。それから３日、美しい娘と知り合った弥助は、その娘を嫁にした。春になると、また八面大王が暴れるようになり、坂上田村麻呂がそれを征伐しにきた。
yakoo no tama 夜光の玉 a ball of light in the night
In the center of Mount Ariakeyama, there is a ball of light.
Because of this, the valley at its foot are never completely in the dark. They can never loose their way in a dark night.
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- reference source : nichibun yokai database -
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. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .
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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.
- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan -
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. Tengupedia - 天狗ペディア - Tengu ABC-List.
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. Ariakeyama 有明山 Ariakesan, Mount Ariake - Nagano
Nobutaroo 信太郎 Nobutaro
Once Nobutaro went with a friend to 有明山 Mount Ariakeyama.
When they tried to jump over the Tenguiwa 天狗岩 Tengu boulder, their bodies became an enormous in size and they jumped over 馬羅尾谷 Baraodani valley and disappeared.
Nobutaro's father 久作 Kyusaku, who had lost his only son, went everywhere to look for him. He could not find him and had to work in the fields all alone from that time on.
He build a small sanctuary for Nobutaro, 信の宮 Nobu no Miya.
有明山 Mount Ariakeyama (2268m).
Ariakeyama is also called Shino Fuji 信濃富士 Mount Fuji of the Shino region.
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- quote -
Ariake-yama (2268m)
Today, rather few people know Ariake-yama.
Of those who do, not many pay the mountain much regard. And, although the ridgeways between Yari-ga-take and Tsubakuro may be crowded enough to qualify as an Alpine “Ginza”, fewer still pay much attention to Ariake-yama even when they find it rearing up at them on their way to the foot of Tsubakuro. Rather, their eyes are drawn to the more imposing heights beyond. Ariake, it seems, has been consigned to the meizan of past ages.
In former times, though, people would direct their gaze not to those indistinct higher peaks but to the shapely mountain right in front of them, revering Ariake-yama as the Mt Fuji of Shinano Province. In an age when the Northern Alps were still “terra incognita”,
Ariake was celebrated by no less a poet than Monk Saigyō:
In Shinano on a day
It sent me awestruck on the way
To Hosono, the sight
Of mighty Ariake on the right
And then there are these lines by Monk Yūgyō:
By this moon’s kindly light
I will not lose the narrow
Road to Hosono, although
It leads me under Ariake’s height
- Ariake-yama seen from Otensho-dake; print by Yoshida Hiroshi -
According to an old chronicle, the mountain was opened in the second year of Daidō (807), when the great avatar Tohanachi Gongen was enshrined there at a place sacred to Ame-no-Uzume, where this goddess of dawn, mirth and revelry had manifested herself as a Buddha to save all living things. The mountain was once called Tohanachi-dake or “Door Away Peak”, in honour of the legend in which the sun goddess Amaterasu shut herself up in a cave and was coaxed out again when the goddess Ame-no-Uzume performed a comical dance. At which the god Tajikarawo-no-mikoto wrenched away the cave’s door and hurled it to earth at this very spot.
I came across this chronicle, the Record of Ariake’s Inauguration (Ariake Kaizan Ryakki), in Mr Kumahara Masao’s book on the dawn of Japanese mountaineering. By this account, the mountain mystic Yūkai, finding it lamentable that people had altogether given up climbing this sacred mountain, set out with his youngest brother in the sixth year of Kyōho (1721) together with fifteen or so villagers from the hamlet of Itadori at the mountain’s foot, and found his way over trackless slopes to the summit. There they stayed overnight and descended the next day.
The first path up the mountain was presumably opened on this occasion, as the chronicle says. And after a small shrine was installed on the summit, people came every summer, from far and wide, in droves to climb the mountain.
For evidence that this custom lasted into the Meiji period, we need look no further than Walter Weston, the mountaineering missionary and so-called Father of the Japan Alps, who climbed Ariake on August 14, 1912, in the first year of Taishō. Presumably he’d heard of Ariake’s reputation as a “meizan” of long standing. Most people associate Weston with Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps (1896), and rather fewer are aware of his later book, The Playground of the Far East (1918), which also concerns itself mainly with the mountains of Japan. This is probably because there is no translation. It is in this later book that he describes his ascent of Ariake.
- - snip snip - -
And then it’s easy to understand how Ariake came by its title of Shinano-Fuji.
- source : onehundredmountains.blogspot.jp... -
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Azuma fushi song 安曇節
「なにを思案の有明山に小首かしげて出たわらび」と安曇節にも歌われ、その形から信濃富士とも呼ばれる山。ここにも天の岩戸伝説があり、手力雄命が岩戸を開いて、世の中が明るくなったので有明山というそうです。魏石鬼を田村麻呂が退治したという伝説もあります。・長野県安曇野市と松川村にまたがる。
- reference source : toki.moo 961 - - tba
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. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
Nakatsuna koo 中綱湖 Lake Nakatsuna
Once upon a time, Mount Ariake and Lake Nakatsuna were fighting about which one was higher.
Then one day a pregnant woman came along and looked at mount Ariakeyama. She said laughingly: "Well Ariakeyama is not that high ... "
Since that time Mount Ariakeyama stoppe getting higher.
hachimen daioo 八面大王 oni 鬼 Demon
有明山のふもとに住む弥左衛門は息子の弥助が幼いうちに八面大王という鬼にさらわれた。立派に成長した弥助はあるとき大きな山鳥を助けた。それから３日して弥助は美しい娘を娶った。そのうちまた八面大王が暴れ始めた。坂上田村麻呂が観音堂で祈ったところ、特定の山鳥の尾を矢にするよう言われた。その話を聞いた弥助は悩んだが、嫁がそれを持ってきた。嫁は山鳥の化身であり、その後姿を消した。その矢で八面大王は退治された。
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有明山のふもとに住んでいた弥左衛門は薬草を採りに行って、そのまま八面大王という鬼にさらわれた。妻は１人で幼い息子の弥助を育て、弥助はやがて立派に成長した。ある年、弥助は大きな山鳥を助けてやった。それから３日、美しい娘と知り合った弥助は、その娘を嫁にした。春になると、また八面大王が暴れるようになり、坂上田村麻呂がそれを征伐しにきた。
yakoo no tama 夜光の玉 a ball of light in the night
In the center of Mount Ariakeyama, there is a ball of light.
Because of this, the valley at its foot are never completely in the dark. They can never loose their way in a dark night.
..............................................................................................................................................
- reference source : nichibun yokai database -
06 to explore
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. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .
- Introduction -
. Join the Tengu friends on Facebook .
. Tenguiwa, Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 Tengu rocks and boulders .
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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.
- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan -
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. Join the friends on Facebook ! .
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