January 26, 2021

LEGENDS - terakoya temple school

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terakoya 寺子屋  "temple school", private school


source : facebook - meeting

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .


........................................................................................................ Hyogo 兵庫県
神戸市 Kobe city

furudanuki 古狸 an old badger
Around 1868, at the terakoya 寺子屋 temple school from 常源寺 Temple Jogen-Ji there appeared furudanuki 古狸 an old tanuki badger.
Some brave boys drove it out with a stick but
there was now always a voice of someone reciting homework coming from under the floor.
. tanuki 狸と伝説 Tanuki badger legends .




........................................................................................................ Iwate 岩手県
奥州市 Oshu City

. hebi 蛇と伝説 Legends about snakes and serpents .
In the year 1877, there was a family working as teachers of a terakoya 寺子屋 temple school. Every night they saw the shadow of a young boy on the shooji 障子 paper sliding doors. It was hebi 蛇 a serpent that had come to tempt the woman of the family.



........................................................................................................ Miyagi 宮城県
蔵王町 Zao town

. furugeta no urami 古下駄の怨 the grudge of the old Geta .




........................................................................................................ Niigata 新潟県
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新潟市 Niigata city 江南区 Konan ward

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
There lived a fox under the floor beams, who often looked very hungry, always came when the children from the terakoya 寺子屋 temple school were eating lunch.
One boy gave only a few bites to the fox, but it became bewitched by the fox.
The parents of the boy went to apologize to the fox and the boy came back to be normal.




........................................................................................................ Saga 佐賀県
佐賀市 Saga city

. Kappa Water Goblin Legends from Saga .
Once a girl of about 11 or 12 years of a rich merchant family came home from the terakoya 寺子屋 temple school when she met the child from next-door. He invited the girl to play near the temple 観成院 Kanjo-In at the river. The girl went home to tell her parents, who prayed to the Kami and smeared black ashes from the hearth fire on her face. The neighbourhood child looked astonished and afraid at the black color and run away. Now they knew this had been a Kappa in disguise.

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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