August 16, 2018

PERSONS - Watanabe noTsuna

https://darumapilgrim.blogspot.com/2012/12/rashomon-gate.html



羅城門の鬼、羅生門の鬼
The Demon of Rashomon


The story is told in the Noh play by Kanze Nobumitsu.
The hero Watanabe no Tsuna fights against a demon ((Ibaraki doji)

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Watanabe-no-Tsuna, one of the four followers of Minamoto-no-Raiko, heard that the ogres dwelling on Oyeyama Hill had slipped into the city of Kyoto from Rashomon and were making a lot of mischief. When he went to Rashomon himself, Tsuna was attacked by Shutendoji, the chief of the ogres. In the fight, he cut off one of the arms of Shutendoji, who, however, managed to escape.

After consulting Abe-no-Seimei, a court wizard, he put the severed arm in a strong stone chest, keeping it locked up for seven days. But on the night of the seventh day, an old woman claiming to be Tsuna's aunt came to his door and begged him to show her the ogre's arm. When Tsuna granted her wish and opened the chest, the woman grabbed the arm, instantly turned into an ogre, and ran for Oeyama Hill. Tsuna told the story to Raiko, and vowed to march to Oyeyama Hill and vanquish the ogres there someday.
source : www.kufs.ac.jp/toshokan

.https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2015/03/kintaro-kintoku-ashigara.html


Raiko is usually accompanied by his four legendary retainers, known as the Shiten'ō 四天王 (The Four Guardian Kings). They were
Watanabe no Tsuna, Sakata no Kintoki, Urabe no Suetake, and Usui Sadamitsu.

- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !


Minamoto no Raikō and
. Shuten-dōji (酒呑童子, also sometimes spelled 酒顛童子, 酒天童子, 朱点童子) .
the Sake Child Monster

. Watanabe no Tsuna 渡邊綱 (953 - 1025) - wikipedia .
Tsuna and 茨木童子 / 茨城童子 the Ibaraki-doji
The battle raged on until Tsuna drew his sword and severed the arm of the demon. Screaming in pain Ibaraki-doji ran away from Tsuna, leaving the severed arm behind. Tsuna swept up Ibaraki-doji's arm as a trophy. When he arrived home at his mansion he wrapped up the severed arm and locked it away in a chest.
A few days later, an elderly woman claiming to be Tsuna's aunt, Mashiba, came to visit him. During the conversation, she aunt asked her nephew to recount how he fought with the demon, and when Tsuna mentioned that he had the severed arm in his possession, his aunt was curious and asked to see it. The unsuspecting Tsuna brought out the chest with Ibaraki-doji's arm inside and when he removed the arm, his aunt revealed herself as being Ibaraki-doji in disguise. She grabbed the arm and escaped from Tsuna's mansion. Tsuna was astonished that Ibaraki-doji had posed as his elderly aunt and did not give chase. However, even after retrieving the arm, Ibaraki-doji never returned to dwell at Rashomon Gate again.

kitsunegooshi 狐格子 Kitsunegoshi, fox lattice, roof gable decoration


The lord of the 伯太藩 Hakata domain, 渡辺氏 Watanabe, was the grandchild of Watanabe no Tsuna.
The family tells the story of Mashiba, coming to get the arm by destroying the lattice from the roof window to let the Oni flee.
To honor this event, the family never built a kitsunegoshi lattice on their roof.


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