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. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
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oyuki 大雪と伝説 Legends about heavy snow
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. yuki 雪 snow .
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. yukionna, yuki onna 雪女 (ゆきおんな) "snow woman" legends .
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mansei no ha蔓菁の葉 (マンセイノハ) leaf of a Kabura turnip
When a fermer walked through his fields in October, he saw thet the leaves of the Kabura turnip where much bigger than usual.
This means that there will be heavy snow in the coming winter, said his old companion.
And indeed, there was heavy snow this winter.
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......................................................................................... Aichi 愛知県
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北設楽郡 Kita-Shitara district振草村 Furikusa village
doorokugami どうろく神 / 道祖神 the Dosojin deity
(どうろく神 Wayside God in local dialect
This deity has only one leg.
Once a woodcutter had built a small hut below a cliff and stayed there over night.
One night when there was heavy snow, he heard something walking over his hut. When he looked the next morning, he saw a huge footprint, but just one.
. Doosojin 道祖神 Dosojin, Dososhin - Legends about Wayside Gods .
......................................................................................... Chiba 千葉県
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香取郡 Katori district多古町 Tako town
On the second day of the New Year, there is a fire ritual at the local Shrine.
If this ritual is not performed, there will be great misfortune in the village.
One year there was heavy snow and the villgers could not go out to have the ritual. But at night an old woman saw someone making the ritual fire at the Shrine.
It must have been the Deity itself, the villagers thought and from that time on, they held the ritual every year.
......................................................................................... Ehime 愛媛県
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今治市 Imabari city玉川町 Tamagawa town
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shishigamisama獅子神様 wild boar Deity
About 200 years ago, a high-ranking priest Saint Muso無相上人 helped a 小猪 small wild boar on a day of heavy snow on 奈良原山 Mount Narabarasan.
He had practised for a long time and then went on a pilgrimage through Japan.
Before he left, he asked another priest to care for the inoshishi.
This priest cared for it very well for a while, but then he felt tired of it and let the boar run into the wild fields.
The villagers shot the boar with a gun.
Since then all the villagers were cursed and decided to venerate the wild boar as a deity.
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source : manryouy.exblog 稲わらイノシシ
To our day after the harvest villagers make wild boars from straw.
. Muso Daishi 無相大師 .
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hendobaka 遍土墓 (ヘンドバカ) grave of a Henro pilgrim
About 150 years ago there lived a man alone with his child after his wife had died.
The daughter had promised to get married to 四国遍路 a Henro Pilgrim but her relatives did not agree, so she left the house.
On that day there was a heavy snow. The daughter could not see the road and fell to her death down a deep valley.
Since then her family was befallen with misfortune. They erected a statue of 地蔵 Jizo Bosatsu on the location where she had died and prayed for her.
This place is now remembered as Hendobaka.
......................................................................................... Fukushima 福島県
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南会津郡 Minami-Aizu district檜枝岐村 Hinoemata village
Heavy snow in winter is an omen that it will be a rich harvest.
......................................................................................... Gifu 岐阜県
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Gifu 恵那市 Ena city明智町 Akechi town
. tanuki 狸 - mujina 狢 － racoon dog, badger legends .
Once on a night with heavy snow, there came a traveller and stayed over night. He went into the bath but did not come out for a long time.
The host thought this strange and had a peek into the bathroom. There he saw a Tanuki washing his body with his long tail.
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Gifu 神岡町 Kamioka town
kumo katsura蛛蜘桂 Katsura tree and spiders
- - - - - katsura桂 Japanese Judas tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum
Around 1580, on a day with heavy snow, a warlord was bewitched by 山蜘蛛 the mountain spiders.
He stayed under a Katsura tree, because he thought it was a house, but later many of his servants were found dead under the tree.
Now the villagers fear this tree.
. kumo 蜘蛛と伝説 Legends about spiders / Spinnen .
......................................................................................... Ishikawa 石川県
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珠洲市 Suzu city
kaki no tane柿の種 persimmon seeds
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In the year 1814, a traveller passed in Autumn near the local Temple. He saw a persimmon tree and took the seeds to stick them into the ground upside-down.
This would bring heavy snow to the area.
When the snow season came, there was more than 6 meters of snow!
......................................................................................... Kyoto 京都府
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Kyoto 船井郡 Funai district
saru 猿 monkey
冬の大雪の日に老松の影で大猿を見つけ、命乞いをするのを無視してこれを射た。調べてみると妊娠した猿で、その祟りで家が没落した。
. saru 猿と伝説 Legends about monkeys - Affen .
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Kyoto 中郡 Naka district 大宮町Omiya town
yukinbo 雪んぼ snow monster
淋しい山中の家で大雪の夜に婆さまと孫が留守番をしていると、雪んぼがきた。婆さまは孫を背負って村里へ下り、そのままそこに移り住んだ。雪んぼは松やにと雪でできていて、火にあててとろけた乳を人に投げて焼き殺してから食うという。
- reference : 雪んぼ （ゆきんぼ） / 大宮町の細見家に伝わる話である。 -
......................................................................................... Miyagi 宮城県
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栗原市 Kurihara city金成町 Kannari town
nezumi 鼠 mouse
江刺の正法寺には大鼠がいて来る住職を食っていた。猫を大雪に養っていた僧がそこの住職になってやってきて、その猫が鼠を退治して自分も果て、住職は死なずにすんだ。以来その寺では経机に猫足と鼠足の机を使うという。
. ne 子 / nezumi 鼠 Rat, Mouse .
......................................................................................... Nara 奈良県
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Bishamon Ten 毘沙門天
ある店の裕福な若主人が３年前に人相占い師に見てもらったところ、３年以内に寒さと餓えで死ぬが、信貴山の毘沙門天に寒参りすれば、その厄を免れて長生きできると告げる。若主人は２年間参ったが、最後の年の参詣時に大雪に遭い、従者に先に登ってカゴを借りてこいというが、従者が戻ったときには若主人は凍死していた。
. Bishamon-Ten 毘沙門天 Tamonten (Vaishravana) .
......................................................................................... Niigata 新潟県
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佐渡市 Sado city畑野町 Hatano town
kami no ta asobi 神の田遊び
畑野町大久保の白山神社では、１月３日に田遊神事が行われるが、昭和初期に大雪で神社へ行くことが出来ないので行事を止めた。すると村中に聞こえる程の大きな音が神社から聞こえた。これは神自身が田遊びをしたのだと言い、その年は村に病気が流行った。
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小比叡神社田遊び神事 Kohie Jinja ta-asobi ritual
https://www.city.sado.niigata.jp/z_ot/cultural_property/property_c/1300/1303-08.shtml
......................................................................................... Shimane 島根県
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Tengu sama 天狗さま
横道のある猟師は、山で山伏が振る鈴と金の常箸を拾って以来、天狗さまを尊び、毎日山に行った。山ン婆が飯を炊くので山へ行ってはならない２月９日も、猟師は天狗山に行った。大きな猿のような爺を打つと下へ落ちていったが、それは天狗さまだった。その後、大雪の晩に、猟師は行方がわからなくなり、天狗山の奥深くで、大怪我をして見つかった。
. engu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .
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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
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. Kaido highway legends 街道と伝説 - - ABC list .
. animals and their legends 動物と伝説 - - ABC list .
. plants and their legends 植物と伝説 - - ABC list .
. trees and their legends 樹木, 木と伝説 - - ABC list .
. Persons, People, Personen and their legends - - 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 .
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. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
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oyuki 大雪と伝説 Legends about heavy snow
. yuki 雪 snow .
- Introduction and Haiku -
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mansei no ha蔓菁の葉 (マンセイノハ) leaf of a Kabura turnip
When a fermer walked through his fields in October, he saw thet the leaves of the Kabura turnip where much bigger than usual.
This means that there will be heavy snow in the coming winter, said his old companion.
And indeed, there was heavy snow this winter.
- - - - - ABC List of the prefectures - - - - -
......................................................................................... Aichi 愛知県
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北設楽郡 Kita-Shitara district振草村 Furikusa village
doorokugami どうろく神 / 道祖神 the Dosojin deity
(どうろく神 Wayside God in local dialect
This deity has only one leg.
Once a woodcutter had built a small hut below a cliff and stayed there over night.
One night when there was heavy snow, he heard something walking over his hut. When he looked the next morning, he saw a huge footprint, but just one.
. Doosojin 道祖神 Dosojin, Dososhin - Legends about Wayside Gods .
......................................................................................... Chiba 千葉県
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香取郡 Katori district多古町 Tako town
On the second day of the New Year, there is a fire ritual at the local Shrine.
If this ritual is not performed, there will be great misfortune in the village.
One year there was heavy snow and the villgers could not go out to have the ritual. But at night an old woman saw someone making the ritual fire at the Shrine.
It must have been the Deity itself, the villagers thought and from that time on, they held the ritual every year.
......................................................................................... Ehime 愛媛県
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今治市 Imabari city玉川町 Tamagawa town
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shishigamisama獅子神様 wild boar Deity
About 200 years ago, a high-ranking priest Saint Muso無相上人 helped a 小猪 small wild boar on a day of heavy snow on 奈良原山 Mount Narabarasan.
He had practised for a long time and then went on a pilgrimage through Japan.
Before he left, he asked another priest to care for the inoshishi.
This priest cared for it very well for a while, but then he felt tired of it and let the boar run into the wild fields.
The villagers shot the boar with a gun.
Since then all the villagers were cursed and decided to venerate the wild boar as a deity.
To our day after the harvest villagers make wild boars from straw.
. Muso Daishi 無相大師 .
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hendobaka 遍土墓 (ヘンドバカ) grave of a Henro pilgrim
About 150 years ago there lived a man alone with his child after his wife had died.
The daughter had promised to get married to 四国遍路 a Henro Pilgrim but her relatives did not agree, so she left the house.
On that day there was a heavy snow. The daughter could not see the road and fell to her death down a deep valley.
Since then her family was befallen with misfortune. They erected a statue of 地蔵 Jizo Bosatsu on the location where she had died and prayed for her.
This place is now remembered as Hendobaka.
......................................................................................... Fukushima 福島県
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南会津郡 Minami-Aizu district檜枝岐村 Hinoemata village
Heavy snow in winter is an omen that it will be a rich harvest.
......................................................................................... Gifu 岐阜県
.......................................................................
Gifu 恵那市 Ena city明智町 Akechi town
. tanuki 狸 - mujina 狢 － racoon dog, badger legends .
Once on a night with heavy snow, there came a traveller and stayed over night. He went into the bath but did not come out for a long time.
The host thought this strange and had a peek into the bathroom. There he saw a Tanuki washing his body with his long tail.
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Gifu 神岡町 Kamioka town
kumo katsura蛛蜘桂 Katsura tree and spiders
- - - - - katsura桂 Japanese Judas tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum
Around 1580, on a day with heavy snow, a warlord was bewitched by 山蜘蛛 the mountain spiders.
He stayed under a Katsura tree, because he thought it was a house, but later many of his servants were found dead under the tree.
Now the villagers fear this tree.
. kumo 蜘蛛と伝説 Legends about spiders / Spinnen .
......................................................................................... Ishikawa 石川県
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珠洲市 Suzu city
kaki no tane柿の種 persimmon seeds
This would bring heavy snow to the area.
When the snow season came, there was more than 6 meters of snow!
......................................................................................... Kyoto 京都府
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Kyoto 船井郡 Funai district
saru 猿 monkey
冬の大雪の日に老松の影で大猿を見つけ、命乞いをするのを無視してこれを射た。調べてみると妊娠した猿で、その祟りで家が没落した。
. saru 猿と伝説 Legends about monkeys - Affen .
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Kyoto 中郡 Naka district 大宮町Omiya town
yukinbo 雪んぼ snow monster
淋しい山中の家で大雪の夜に婆さまと孫が留守番をしていると、雪んぼがきた。婆さまは孫を背負って村里へ下り、そのままそこに移り住んだ。雪んぼは松やにと雪でできていて、火にあててとろけた乳を人に投げて焼き殺してから食うという。
- reference : 雪んぼ （ゆきんぼ） / 大宮町の細見家に伝わる話である。 -
......................................................................................... Miyagi 宮城県
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栗原市 Kurihara city金成町 Kannari town
nezumi 鼠 mouse
江刺の正法寺には大鼠がいて来る住職を食っていた。猫を大雪に養っていた僧がそこの住職になってやってきて、その猫が鼠を退治して自分も果て、住職は死なずにすんだ。以来その寺では経机に猫足と鼠足の机を使うという。
. ne 子 / nezumi 鼠 Rat, Mouse .
......................................................................................... Nara 奈良県
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Bishamon Ten 毘沙門天
ある店の裕福な若主人が３年前に人相占い師に見てもらったところ、３年以内に寒さと餓えで死ぬが、信貴山の毘沙門天に寒参りすれば、その厄を免れて長生きできると告げる。若主人は２年間参ったが、最後の年の参詣時に大雪に遭い、従者に先に登ってカゴを借りてこいというが、従者が戻ったときには若主人は凍死していた。
. Bishamon-Ten 毘沙門天 Tamonten (Vaishravana) .
......................................................................................... Niigata 新潟県
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佐渡市 Sado city畑野町 Hatano town
kami no ta asobi 神の田遊び
畑野町大久保の白山神社では、１月３日に田遊神事が行われるが、昭和初期に大雪で神社へ行くことが出来ないので行事を止めた。すると村中に聞こえる程の大きな音が神社から聞こえた。これは神自身が田遊びをしたのだと言い、その年は村に病気が流行った。
https://www.city.sado.niigata.jp/z_ot/cultural_property/property_c/1300/1303-08.shtml
......................................................................................... Shimane 島根県
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Tengu sama 天狗さま
横道のある猟師は、山で山伏が振る鈴と金の常箸を拾って以来、天狗さまを尊び、毎日山に行った。山ン婆が飯を炊くので山へ行ってはならない２月９日も、猟師は天狗山に行った。大きな猿のような爺を打つと下へ落ちていったが、それは天狗さまだった。その後、大雪の晩に、猟師は行方がわからなくなり、天狗山の奥深くで、大怪我をして見つかった。
. engu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .
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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
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The winter of 2020/2021 has brought extremely heavy snow to most parts of Japan.
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. Kaido highway legends 街道と伝説 - - ABC list .
. animals and their legends 動物と伝説 - - ABC list .
. plants and their legends 植物と伝説 - - ABC list .
. trees and their legends 樹木, 木と伝説 - - ABC list .
. Persons, People, Personen and their legends - - 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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