January 30, 2021

LEGENDS - kame turtle

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kame turtle legends

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. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
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kame 亀と伝説 Legends about turtles, tortoise - Schildkröte


A turtle looking in all 8 directions 八方睨みの亀

. kame 亀 turtle, tortoise.
- Introduction and Haiku -
kenmun ケンムン hinotoragami ヒノトラガミ
Kenmun is a kind of sea turtle Yokai, friend of Kappa san.


Tortoise is a symbol of longevity. It is said that if you rub its head, you can live a long life!
This statue is called Juzohi-no-Okame (寿蔵碑の大亀), or 'Longevity Monument of the Giant Tortoise'.
The giant tortoise stands 5 meters and 10cm tall.
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. minogame 蓑亀 minokame, "turtle with a raincoat" .

. Urashima Taro 浦島太郎 legend .

. tsuru kame, tsurukame 鶴亀 auspicious Tortoise and Crane .

. hiiki 贔屓 / 贔負 dragon "turtle" .

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......................................................................................... Chiba 千葉県
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銚子市 Choshi city

If the fishermen take good care of the sea turtles, they will have a good fishing harvest.
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umigame no tatari ウミガメの祟り curse of the Sea Turtle
Toward the end of the Meiji period, around 1912, some workers on a maschine boat on the Tonegawa caught a 海がめ sea turtle and ate it.
That day when they finished work and wanted to go back to the harbour, the sea suddenly turned wild and the boat capsized. Only one of the workers made it back to the shore alive.
Others found him mumbeling "this turtle, this huge sea turtle . . . " and then he breathed his last too.
The fishermen of Choshi say this was the curse of the sea turtle and have great respect for this animal.
. Legends from river Tonegawa 利根川 .
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At the shrine 御嶽神社 Mitake Jinja
の海亀墓石塔にまつわる伝承。S42年,イワシ漁の最中にウミガメを巻き込んで殺してしまった。その後一ヶ月ほどは漁に出ても網に入ったイワシが皆出て行ってしまうことが続いたが,石塔を建立して供養すると漁ができるようになった。




......................................................................................... Fukui 福井県 
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. Zenkai 禅海 Priest Zenkai coming on a turtle .




......................................................................................... Hokkaido
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Matsumae 厚岸町 Akkeshi town / Atsukeshi

reiki 霊亀 mysterious turtle
文政8年に松前の東蝦夷地アツケシで、長さが2間にあまり、幅が1丈もある大きな亀(スッポン)が獲れた。この亀は惣助なる漁の請負人に涙を流した。惣助や捕獲した人々は心動かされ、亀を放した。するとその後、近年の不漁が嘘のように豊漁となったという。これは惣助の陰徳だと思われた。




......................................................................................... Hyogo 兵庫県
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明石市 Akashi city

. Tonya - 穀物問屋 a grain wholesaler named 龜屋 Kameya .




......................................................................................... Nagano 長野県
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. origin of Togura Onsen 戸倉温泉 Hot Spring resort .
along the river Chikumagwa 千曲川




......................................................................................... Okinawa 沖縄

kame to sen 亀,鱣 (hamo 鱧 pike conger eel)
Once a man named 蔡譲 was on his way to China, when a typhoon came and he fell over board.
Suddenly one 亀 turtle and two 鱣 sea snakes came and helped him.
It became custom in his family never to eat the meat of a turtle or pike conger eel after that.




......................................................................................... Tokyo 東京都

. Kameido cho 亀戸町 Kemeido, Kame-Ido "Turtle Well" .

. Tonegawa 利根川 / 刀禰川 River Tonegawa, Tone river .
kame and Kappa / kame no tatari カメのたたり the curse of the turtle

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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
reiki 05 霊亀 (01)
470 亀 to collect

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. animals and their legends 動物と伝説 - - ABC list .

. plants and their legends  植物と伝説 - - ABC list .

. trees and their legends  樹木, 木と伝説 - - ABC list .

. Persons, People, Personen and their legends - - ABC list .

. Legends about Kobo Daishi Kukai - 弘法大師 空海 - 伝説 .

. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .

- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan -
- Introduction -

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