November 11, 2018

EDO - Kanda legend

https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2015/10/kanda-district.html

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Goji-in 護持院 Temple Goji-In


Here is an Edo-period view of Goji-in Temple Field. Today the field is covered by streets and buildings.
The Goji-in Temple 護持院 that was originally located there burned down in a big Edo fire in 1717, and after that the shogunate left the area as an open field to serve as a park and act as a firebreak to protect against fires that broke out in the downtown commoner area of the city.
. Goji-In Field and streetwalker prostitutes .

Once upon a time, a young carpenter walked along the Goji-In Field when a fox, shape-shifted to a bony prostitute, came close to him and asked for his favour. He became so afraid he ran home immediately.
Soon after that the carpenter married and became quite prosperous. Then the fox possessed his wife and asked to be divorced. Now the carpenter saw he had been deceived again, became crazy and died.

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