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......................................................................................... Fukushima 福島県
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双葉郡 Futaba district 浪江町 Namie town // 赤猫
akaneko yashiki 赤猫屋敷 Mansion with a red cats
There was a lonely cat in the home and when the woman was left alone home, the cat begun to sing a song for her.
"But you must not tell anybody about my songs, lest you die!" the cat warned her.
When the other family members came back, they heard the woman sing and asked, where she had learned the song.
So the woman told them about the cat, but she died the next night.
Ishikawa 石川県
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小松市 Komatsu city // 赤猫
The grandfather of a certain family cherished his akaneko 赤猫 a red cat. One day the red cat said: "When 「前田利常 Lord Maeda Toshitsune (1594 - 1658) dies, there will be a great storm at his funeral. There will be flowers from gold and silver decorated around him, so you have to wait until all the other people have gone and then take the gold and silver home!"
Grandfather did as the cat had advised him and lived a luxury life ever after.
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Miyazaki 宮崎県
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児湯郡 Koyu district 新富町 Shintomi town
Sometimes a cat goes wandering after being fed for one year in a home.
In the mountain forest it looks for the stump of matsu 松 a pine tree and rub the pine resin on its skin. Then it seeks a place with sand to dry.
That way no arrow or bullet will penetrate it.
After two or even seven years, it will come back to the home and haunt the people.
akaneko 赤猫 red cats are especially prone to become a nekomata 猫股 monster cat.
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......................................................................................... Fukushima 福島県
.......................................................................
双葉郡 Futaba district 浪江町 Namie town // 赤猫
akaneko yashiki 赤猫屋敷 Mansion with a red cats
There was a lonely cat in the home and when the woman was left alone home, the cat begun to sing a song for her.
"But you must not tell anybody about my songs, lest you die!" the cat warned her.
When the other family members came back, they heard the woman sing and asked, where she had learned the song.
So the woman told them about the cat, but she died the next night.
Ishikawa 石川県
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小松市 Komatsu city // 赤猫
The grandfather of a certain family cherished his akaneko 赤猫 a red cat. One day the red cat said: "When 「前田利常 Lord Maeda Toshitsune (1594 - 1658) dies, there will be a great storm at his funeral. There will be flowers from gold and silver decorated around him, so you have to wait until all the other people have gone and then take the gold and silver home!"
Grandfather did as the cat had advised him and lived a luxury life ever after.
.......................................................................
Miyazaki 宮崎県
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児湯郡 Koyu district 新富町 Shintomi town
Sometimes a cat goes wandering after being fed for one year in a home.
In the mountain forest it looks for the stump of matsu 松 a pine tree and rub the pine resin on its skin. Then it seeks a place with sand to dry.
That way no arrow or bullet will penetrate it.
After two or even seven years, it will come back to the home and haunt the people.
akaneko 赤猫 red cats are especially prone to become a nekomata 猫股 monster cat.
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Niigata
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akaneko 赤猫
Once a family had a Sake ricewine party when a yamabushi 山伏 mountain priest came along to drink with them.
Next morning the body of the priest lay on the ground, but the head was missing.
He had told the villagers that there would be a huge flooding and to prevent it, he would throw akaneko 赤猫 a red cat into the lake to prevent it. But the master of the lake, the Dragon God Ryujin 龍神 became angry and took away his head.
. ryuujin 竜神 /龍神 と伝説 Ryujin, Legends about the Dragon Deity .
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akaneko 赤猫
Once a family had a Sake ricewine party when a yamabushi 山伏 mountain priest came along to drink with them.
Next morning the body of the priest lay on the ground, but the head was missing.
He had told the villagers that there would be a huge flooding and to prevent it, he would throw akaneko 赤猫 a red cat into the lake to prevent it. But the master of the lake, the Dragon God Ryujin 龍神 became angry and took away his head.
. ryuujin 竜神 /龍神 と伝説 Ryujin, Legends about the Dragon Deity .
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Tokyo
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Around 1700 at the temple 徳水院 Tokusui-In in the compound of 増上寺 Zojo-Ji there was akaneko 赤猫 a cat with red hair.
Once it was hunting mice when it fell from the beam of the roof.
It called out a short prayer, so people thought it must be a nekomata cat monster.
Then it disappeared.
. Zoojooji, Zōjō-Ji 増上寺 Zojo-Ji .
the family temple of the Tokugawa family
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Around 1796, six friends had gathered at a tea house to drink.
When the owner of the tea house later went to one of guest's home to collect the money, they told him the man had died seven years ago.
The owner remembered that the guest had gulped down three pieces of fish, head and bones and all . . .
it must have been a nekomata 猫また monster cat.
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Around 1700 at the temple 徳水院 Tokusui-In in the compound of 増上寺 Zojo-Ji there was akaneko 赤猫 a cat with red hair.
Once it was hunting mice when it fell from the beam of the roof.
It called out a short prayer, so people thought it must be a nekomata cat monster.
Then it disappeared.
. Zoojooji, Zōjō-Ji 増上寺 Zojo-Ji .
the family temple of the Tokugawa family
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Around 1796, six friends had gathered at a tea house to drink.
When the owner of the tea house later went to one of guest's home to collect the money, they told him the man had died seven years ago.
The owner remembered that the guest had gulped down three pieces of fish, head and bones and all . . .
it must have been a nekomata 猫また monster cat.
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