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. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .
................................................................................. Nerima 練馬区
. Yamata no orochi 山田の大蛇 huge monster serpent .
a legendary 8-headed and 8-tailed Japanese dragon.
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. keyaki 欅と伝説 Legends about the Zelkova tree .
and daija 大蛇 huge serpent
In the compound of the shrine 白山神社 Hakusan Jinja there were two zelkova trees. One of them showed a kind of kaika 怪火 ghost fire on the 25th day of the 12th month in the 12th year of the Showa period.
The other zelkova tree has a huge serpent around its trunk in the summer of 1929.
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. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
At a temple there lived an old fox. He had been calling out a fire warning two or three times and thus helped the villagers to live without a major fire destruction.
That is why they called it
hikeshi Inari 火消稲荷 Firefighter Inari Fox
. hikeshi 火消 firefighters, firemen in Edo .
There are other Shinto Shrines in Japan called
火消稲荷神社 Hikeshi Inari Jinja.
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sakana 魚 fish
At 石神井の池 the pond in Shajuji Park there lived a strange fish, each of its scales looked like a torii 鳥居 gate of a Shinto shrine.
During flooding this fish is swept out to the surrounding rice and vegetable fields. The villagers revere it as a messenger of the deity of Shajuji Shrine and never catch it.
. 石神井神社 Shrine Shakuji Jinja .
Shakujii Kōen 石神井公園 Shakujii Park
................................................................................. Toshima ward 豊島区
. ubugami 産神 "deity of one's birthplace" .
If a woman was born in 池袋村 Ikebukuro village (former Nerima district) and is disrespectful to the deity of her birthplace, her home will be hit with disaster and misfortune.
Therefore most women of this district looked for a wedding partner here and never ventured out.
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- reference : nichibun yokai database -
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. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .
................................................................................. Nerima 練馬区
. Yamata no orochi 山田の大蛇 huge monster serpent .
a legendary 8-headed and 8-tailed Japanese dragon.
.......................................................................
. keyaki 欅と伝説 Legends about the Zelkova tree .
and daija 大蛇 huge serpent
In the compound of the shrine 白山神社 Hakusan Jinja there were two zelkova trees. One of them showed a kind of kaika 怪火 ghost fire on the 25th day of the 12th month in the 12th year of the Showa period.
The other zelkova tree has a huge serpent around its trunk in the summer of 1929.
.......................................................................
. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
At a temple there lived an old fox. He had been calling out a fire warning two or three times and thus helped the villagers to live without a major fire destruction.
That is why they called it
hikeshi Inari 火消稲荷 Firefighter Inari Fox
. hikeshi 火消 firefighters, firemen in Edo .
There are other Shinto Shrines in Japan called
火消稲荷神社 Hikeshi Inari Jinja.
.......................................................................
sakana 魚 fish
At 石神井の池 the pond in Shajuji Park there lived a strange fish, each of its scales looked like a torii 鳥居 gate of a Shinto shrine.
During flooding this fish is swept out to the surrounding rice and vegetable fields. The villagers revere it as a messenger of the deity of Shajuji Shrine and never catch it.
. 石神井神社 Shrine Shakuji Jinja .
Shakujii Kōen 石神井公園 Shakujii Park
................................................................................. Toshima ward 豊島区
. ubugami 産神 "deity of one's birthplace" .
If a woman was born in 池袋村 Ikebukuro village (former Nerima district) and is disrespectful to the deity of her birthplace, her home will be hit with disaster and misfortune.
Therefore most women of this district looked for a wedding partner here and never ventured out.
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- reference : nichibun yokai database -
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