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Yufu Jinja 木綿神社（ゆふじんじゃ) / Yufusan Jinja 木綿山神社
Lake Kinrinko 金鱗湖 Lake Fish Scales
Legend knows that Unagihime made a bet with an Oni demon that he could not build 100 steps up to her seat on the top of Mount Yufudake or make 100 boulder heaps (or throw 100 large boulders or earth in the area in one night ... sources differ).
Anyway then a rooster announced the morning and the job was not finished. The demon had to leave the area. But there was enough earth in the plain to make place for the farmers to grow crops and the lake had become much smaller.
The lake Kinrinko used to be full of unagi ウナギ（鰻）eel, which were the sacred fish of the deity, and even made into the Deity Unagi Hime herself.
Other legends tell this story of Unagi Hime and the Oni named
Kesaki Gongen 蹴裂権現（けさきごんげん）
He tore a rift in the mountains so that the water of the huge lake could flow out . . . and thus the plain of Yufuin was created.
A statue of Kesaki Gongen is very small, only about as long as a hand.
It was kept in the shrine, but after the buildings were lost in a typhoon, there is now just a small sanctuary in the woods, where no-one visits any more.
A local villager takes the statue home to offer prayers during the winter time. He also shows it to the school children and tells them the old story.
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Yufu Jinja 木綿神社（ゆふじんじゃ) / Yufusan Jinja 木綿山神社
Lake Kinrinko 金鱗湖 Lake Fish Scales
Legend knows that Unagihime made a bet with an Oni demon that he could not build 100 steps up to her seat on the top of Mount Yufudake or make 100 boulder heaps (or throw 100 large boulders or earth in the area in one night ... sources differ).
Anyway then a rooster announced the morning and the job was not finished. The demon had to leave the area. But there was enough earth in the plain to make place for the farmers to grow crops and the lake had become much smaller.
The lake Kinrinko used to be full of unagi ウナギ（鰻）eel, which were the sacred fish of the deity, and even made into the Deity Unagi Hime herself.
Other legends tell this story of Unagi Hime and the Oni named
Kesaki Gongen 蹴裂権現（けさきごんげん）
He tore a rift in the mountains so that the water of the huge lake could flow out . . . and thus the plain of Yufuin was created.
A statue of Kesaki Gongen is very small, only about as long as a hand.
It was kept in the shrine, but after the buildings were lost in a typhoon, there is now just a small sanctuary in the woods, where no-one visits any more.
A local villager takes the statue home to offer prayers during the winter time. He also shows it to the school children and tells them the old story.
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