MINGEI - Fukushima additions

https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2011/06/fukushima-folk-toys.html

https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2011/08/tora-tiger-toys.html




byakko hariko 白虎張り子 white tiger
These white tigers from Aizu remind of the army"白虎隊"Byakkotai


source : popeye.sakura.ne.jp/fukushima...

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source : popeye.sakura.ne.jp/fukushima...

Aizu Fukusuke 会津福助

. Fukushima Folk Toys .
会津若松市 Aizu Wakamatsu

https://darumamuseum.blogspot.com/2009/03/fukusuke.html


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hatsuneuri, hatsune uri 初音売 (はつねうり)
first vendor of a nightingale flute
..... hatusnebue 初音笛（はつねぶえ）first nightingale flute
It is a simple toy flute made of bamboo, even now sold in Nagano.


source : popeye.sakura.ne.jp/fukushima...
flute from Aizu Wakamatsu, Fukushima
. Fukushima Folk Art　－ 福島県 .


. hatsune 初音 whistle for the New Year .
Nagano

https://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2009/02/first-things-new-year.html
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source : popeye.sakura.ne.jp/fukushima...
koransho usagi こらんしょ兎 rabbit welcoming people
From Aizu Wakamatsu, Fukushima

koransho is the local dialect for irasshaimase いらっしゃいませ welcome to the store !
https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2011/07/usagi-daikoku-rabbit.html

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MINGEI - Yamagata additions

https://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/03/cat-neko.html


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mari neko まり猫 cat on a temari hand ball
Yamagata

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.https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2011/07/yamagata-folk-toys.html


karakara senbei からからせんべい crackers with toys inside


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Usaburo Kokeshi (卯三郎こけし)


shiawasebina しあわせ雛 Happy Hina Dolls
https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2013/02/kokeshi.html


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mangan Jizo 満願地蔵 Jizo fulfilled a wish


. mangan 満願 a wish has been fulfilled .

https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2013/02/kokeshi.html

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MINGEI - hankotanna black cloth Yamagata

https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2020/01/hankotanna-yamagata.html

hankotanna Yamagata

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hankotanna, hanko tanna はんこたんな

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Hanko-Tanna Cloth for Work in the Fields
Long cloth with shibori which is worn by a woman when she worked in the fields to protect skin from sunburn or bug bites, which covers a head with only an opening for eyes. It was mainly used in the southern part of Tohoku district.
It is made of cotton and dyed with vegetable indigo. The fronthead part has double cloth.
source : trocadero.com...





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hankotanna dorei はんこたんな土鈴 clay bell





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hankotanna ningyo はんこたんな人形 dolls




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MINGEI - additions Shizuoka

https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2011/07/shizuoka-folk-toys.html

https://traveloguegokuraku.blogspot.com/2013/01/kanaya-juku.html


chatsumi musume 茶摘み娘土鈴 girl picking tea - clay bell

SHRINES - Shiogama Shrine

https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2020/01/noda-kaido-highway-numakunai.html

Shiogama Kaido 塩釜街道 Shiogama Highway
Connecting Shiogama with 仙台 Sendai, 宮城県 Miyagi.
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Shiogama (塩竈 or 塩釜)
The city derives its name ("salt furnace") from an ancient method to harvest salt by boiling seawater in large kettles. The ritual is still performed every July at Shiogama Shrine, an important shrine at the center of the town. The shrine is also a popular cherry blossom spot with a large variety of cherry tree varieties.
Shiogama
is often combined with a visit to nearby Matsushima, as the two cities are connected by the popular sightseeing cruises via Matsushima Bay.
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. Shiogama Jinja 塩釜神社 / 鹽竈神社 Shiogama Shrine .
It is the head shrine of several hundred Shiogama shrines located throughout Japan.
In the"Narrow Roads to the Deep North",
the poet, Matsuo Basho, describes traveling from Shiogama to Matsushima by boat.
. tsubo no ishibumi at Tateishi 壷の碑を立石 .


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Shiwahiko Jinja　志波彦神社
It was formerly situated in Iwakiri, to the west of Shiogama, but it was transferred to the precincts of Shiogama Jinja in 1874.
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Shiogama Jinja (鹽竈神社)
Three kami are enshrined at Shiogama Jinja, in three separate buildings:
Shiotsuchi-Oji-no-Kami in the betsugu (detached sanctuary),
Takemikazuchi-no-Kami in the sagu (left sanctuary), and
Futsunushi-no-Kami in the ugu (right sanctuary).
Shiwahiko Jinja is dedicated to another kami, Shiwahiko-no-Kami.
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The construction of Shiogama Jinja dates to before the historic era. Per shrine legend, the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu-Omikami, specifically commanded Takemikazuchi-no-Kami and Futsunushi-no-Kami, to develop the Tōhoku area.
A third kami, Shiotsuchi-Oji-no-Kami, guided the other two to this region. After their arrival, the area enjoyed a period of peace, and Shiotsuchi-Oji-no-Kami taught the local people how to make salt from sea water. In gratitude, a shrine was erected to the three kami.
Shiogama Jinja appears in historical records in 820 AD, when it was given exemption from taxes.
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source : artne.jp/event... 福岡市博物館

塩竈・松島図屏風 Shiogama - Matsushima Byobu folding screen

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kamagafuchi 釜ヶ渕 riverside of the kettle / cauldron
Once one of the 12 sacred kettles of the Deity, shinkama 神釜 / 神竈 / 御釜 O-Kama was stolen.
When the boat of the thieves passed the riverside, it sank to the ground.

O-Kama Jinja 御釜神社 "Shrine of the Divine Kettle"
宮城県塩竈市本町6-1 // O-Kama sha 御釜社

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This unassuming shrine is named for its four metal cauldrons which have been used since ancient times to make salt.
The cauldrons are designated one of the Three Great Miracles of Japan. The color of the water in these cauldrons is said to change before disasters, a belief so prevalent that during the Edo period the shrine was ordered to inform the rulers of the Sendai Domain whenever there was a change in color. It is even said that the color of the water changed just before the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

Okama Jinja enshrines Shiotsuchi Oji no Kami,
the god who taught humans how to make salt. An sacred salt-making ritual is held here on July 6 every year, a tradition which has continued for one thousand years.
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Shiotsuchi no Oji had originally seven iron kettles, four remain - of two sizes
一口は径四尺 1,2 m diameter
三口は四尺八寸の鉄釜 a bit larger
dedicated to ryuujin 竜神 the Dragon Deity.

Every year on the 10th day of July there was a ritual of shiokumi 汐汲み scooping salt water from the seaside 釜渕 Kamabuchi.

Legend says Shiotsuchi no Oji had originally seven or even 15 kettles.
二口は野田 Two at Noda
一口は釜渕 One at Kamabuchi
四口は加美郡色麻村 Four at Kami district, Shikama
二口は肝沢郡水沢 Two at Isawa district, Mizusawa
一口は黒川郡富谷町志戸田 One at Kurokawa district, Shitoda
一口は仙台市石名坂円福寺 One at Sendai at the temple Enpuku-Ji

The deity 和加佐彦命 Wakasahiko no Mikoto changed into the figure of a young boy with a purple apron and let the bull to the Seaside. His whip was made from wisteria.
To our day people sometimes put a purple apron around their child in the hope it will grow up strong.

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塩竃市 Shiogama city 一森山 Ichimoriyama

Shiotsuchi no Oji 塩釜翁神 / シオツチノオジ / 塩竈明神 Shiogama Myojin
塩椎神 Shiotsuchi no Kami / 塩竃さん Shiogama San
There are three deities venerated at Shiogama Jinja. Later one of them,
武甕槌神 Takemikazuchi no Kami went down the river 利根川 Tonegawa to 鹿島 Kashima.
経津主神 Futsunushi no Kami went to 香取 Katori.
Only 塩椎神 Shiotsuji no Kami stayed here.


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A local kami who greeted the heavenly grandchild Ninigi upon his arrival at Kasasa of Ata no Nagaya (in Kagoshima Prefecture) after his descent from heaven (tenson kōrin). Nihongi states that the kami made a free-will offering of the land to Ninigi.
According to a variant "alternate writing" also provided by Nihongi, the kami is identified with Shiotsuchi no oji ("old man of the sea"), an offspring of Izanagi.
Shiotsuchi no oji is described elsewhere as guiding Hohodemi to the Palace of the Sea, and telling Emperor Jinmu about the "fair land to the east," with the result that he is viewed as a tutelary kami of the sea.
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tarayooju 多羅葉樹 / タラヨウジュ / Ilex latifolia
The Ilex tree in the compound of 塩釜神社 Shiogama Jinja is called
nanja monja, nanjamonja なんじゃもんじゃ "what is this?"
In former times, when bokesen 卜占 divinations were made, a leaf of this tree was roasted.



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ushiishi, ushi-ishi, ウシイシ gyuseki 牛石 the bull who had become a rock
This huge rock is in the compound of 塩釜神社 Shiogama Jinja.
In the pond East of 塩釜神社 Shiogama Jinja is a huge rock, looking like a bull lying down, with his eyes, nose, horns and ears visible.
On the 6th day of the 7th lunar month, when the well is cleaned, it can be fully seen.
When the deity 塩土翁神 Shiyotsuchi no Oji made salt, the tide brought a huge bull, which turned into this rock.

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MINGEI - additions Shizuoka

https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2017/03/daikoku-ebisu.html

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from the Shrine 白浜神社 Shirahama Jinja
伊古奈比咩命神社 Ikonahime no Mikoto Jinja
下田市白浜 Izu Shimoda, Shirahama


source and more photos : popeye.sakura.ne.jp/shizuoka...
Ebisu Daruma 恵比寿だるま



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from the Shrine 新井神社 Arai Jinja
静岡県伊東市新井2-15-1




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https://darumadollmuseum.blogspot.com/2005/12/otafuku-daruma.html


火男 Hyottoko
伊豆面 Mask from Izu, Shizuoka

MATSURI - Komainu cat festisval

https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2014/02/koma-guardian-animals.html
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. koma manekineko 狛犬招き猫　beckoning cat .

komaneko 狛猫 Koma Neko Cat cuardians





Komaneko Matsuri Festival
The Mineyama Komaneko Festival will take place at and around Kotohira Shrine on Sep.17th. Kotohira Shrine is known for its unique guardians: komaneko, and it's said this is the only place where komaneko statues are put up as guardians. On this day, the town literally purrs. Store windows feature komanekos. There are cat-shaped sweets, cat exhibitions, workshops, and stalls selling all sorts of feline merchandise.
Bring cat lovers and enjoy the unique festival!
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EDO - Mibu Kaido

https://traveloguegokuraku.blogspot.com/2012/05/nikko-kaido.html

Nikko Reiheishi Kaido　日光例幣使街道
Nikko Onari Kaido　日光御成街道
Nikko Nishi Kaido 日光西街道
Mibu doori 壬生通り Mibu road / Mibu michi 壬生道
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Nikko Nishi Kaido 日光西街道 Western Highway to Nikko
Mibu doori 壬生通り Mibu road / Mibu michi 壬生道

From 日光街道小山宿 Oyama via Kanuma to 日光街道今市宿 Imaichi in 栃木県 Tochigi.



01 小山宿 Oyama
02 飯塚宿Iizuka
03 壬生宿 Mibu
04 楡木宿 Niregi
05 奈佐原宿 Nasahara
06 鹿沼宿 Kanuma
07 文挟宿 Fubasami
08 板橋宿 Sakahashi
09 今市宿 Imaichi


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. Nakasendoo　中山道 The Nakasendo Road .


. Kaido 日本の街道 The Ancient Roads of Japan .


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SHINTO - Komainu healing toothace

https://darumamuseumgallery.blogspot.com/2007/07/yakushi-for-toothache.html

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shitsuu komainu 歯痛狛犬 Komainu to heal toothache



Umezono Migawari Tenmangu 梅園身代り天満宮
長崎県 Nagasaki


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MINGEI - additions from Kagawa

https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2011/08/kagawa-folk-toys.html





dog carrying an auspicious tai 鯛 sea bream


chintai 狆鯛（ちんたい） dog riding a sea bream

. yome-iri, yomeiri 　嫁入り人形　 bridal dolls, wedding dolls .
Takamatsu
A play with words and sounds
いぬ inu in local lore means walking forward, and a bride is supposed to inu mai 帰るまい not to come back.
A dog is also the symbol of an easy birth .
鯛 tai is the auspicious medetai めでタイ.
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https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2011/08/kagawa-folk-toys.html



ushi nori dooji 牛乗り童子 child riding a cow
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herahera odori へらへら踊り Herahera dance doll

EDO - Siebold exhibition in Germany

https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2017/07/matsugae-district.html

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Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold 　フィリップ・フランツ・バルタザール・フォン・シーボルト
(1796 – 1866)
a German physician, botanist, and traveler. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora and fauna and the introduction of Western medicine in Japan. He was the father of the first female Japanese doctor, Kusumoto Ine.


- Arrival in Japan
On 28 June 1823, after only a few months in the Dutch East Indies, Siebold was posted as resident physician and scientist to Dejima, a small artificial island and trading post at Nagasaki, and arrived there on 11 August 1823. During an eventful voyage to Japan he only just escaped drowning during a typhoon in the East China Sea. As only a very small number of Dutch personnel were allowed to live on this island, the posts of physician and scientist had to be combined. Dejima had been in the possession of the Dutch East India Company (known as the VOC) since the 17th century, but the Company had gone bankrupt in 1798, after which a trading post was operated there by the Dutch state for political considerations, with notable benefits to the Japanese. ...
... In 1824, Siebold started a medical school in Nagasaki, the Narutaki-juku, that grew into a meeting place for around fifty students. They helped him in his botanical and naturalistic studies. The Dutch language became the lingua franca (common spoken language) for these academic and scholarly contacts for a generation, until the Meiji Restoration.
- Japanese family
During his stay in Japan, Siebold "lived together" with Kusumoto Taki (楠本滝), who gave birth to their daughter Kusumoto (O-)Ine in 1827. Siebold used to call his wife "Otakusa" (probably derived from O-Taki-san) and named a Hydrangea after her. Kusumoto Ine eventually became the first Japanese woman known to have received a physician's training and became a highly regarded practicing physician and court physician to the Empress in 1882. She died at court in 1903.
... Siebold Incident
In 1826 Siebold made the court journey to Edo. During this long trip he collected many plants and animals. But he also obtained from the court astronomer Takahashi Kageyasu several detailed maps of Japan and Korea (written by Inō Tadataka), an act strictly forbidden by the Japanese government. When the Japanese discovered, by accident, that Siebold had a map of the northern parts of Japan, the government accused him of high treason and of being a spy for Russia.
The Japanese placed Siebold under house arrest
and expelled him from Japan on 22 October 1829. Satisfied that his Japanese collaborators would continue his work, he journeyed back on the frigate Java to his former residence, Batavia, in possession of his enormous collection of thousands of animals and plants, his books and his maps. The botanical garden of Buitenzorg would soon house Siebold's surviving, living flora collection of 2,000 plants. ...
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Collecting Japan. Philipp Franz von Siebold's Vision of the Far East
The octagonal box contains a game with countless finely painted shells, each one a miniature in its own right. It is Japanese and dates from the Edo period (1603-1868). This exquisite object will be on display in the comprehensive special exhibition that includes lacquered and tortoiseshell work, ivory carvings and porcelain, filigree Buddha figures, sacred censers, huge scroll paintings and richly decorated textiles, as well as toy figures and material samples. The approximately 300 individual items, all collected by Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796–1866), a Würzburg doctor and scientist working for the Dutch, provide a fascinating insight into the secular and sacred craftwork of Japan. The exhibition, which is being organized jointly with the Museum of Japanese History in Sakura (Prefecture of Chiba), sheds light on the life of the collector and his time, the basis on which he organized his collections and his encyclopaedic approach to his mission of making Japan comprehensible to the west. ...
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The Legend of Yoshitsune
Could Genghis Khan have actually been a Japanese samurai who went to Mongolia?
The first person who introduced this theory was a well known German Doctor, Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (1796-1866), who was sent to Japan in 1823 by the Dutch government. He carried out research and established a Western style medical school in Edo period Japan while it was still under the rule of samurai.
In his seven volume series "Nippon," he wrote about Yoshitsune and Genghis Khan. During the Meiji period (1868-1912) after the modernization of Japan, some intelligentsia discussed this theory. However it was Oyabe Zenichiro's substantial bestseller of 1924, Genghis Khan wa Minamoto-no-Yoshitsune Nari [Genghis Khan was Yoshitsune] which made this theory known to the public.
- Harada Minoru -

. Genghis Khan (1162 - 1227) .

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MINGEI - Kagawa additions

https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2011/08/kagawa-folk-toys.html





dog carrying an auspicious tai 鯛 sea bream


chintai 狆鯛（ちんたい） dog riding a sea bream

. yome-iri, yomeiri 　嫁入り人形　 bridal dolls, wedding dolls .
Takamatsu
A play with words and sounds
いぬ inu in local lore means walkin forward, and a bride is not supposed to inu mai 帰るまい not to come bac.
A dog is also the symbol of an easy birth
鯛 tai is the auspicious medetai めでタイ.
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https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2011/08/kagawa-folk-toys.html



ushi nori dooji 牛乗り童子 child riding a cow
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herahera odori へらへら踊り Herahera dance doll

MINGEI - Miyagi additions

https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2011/07/miyagi-folk-toys.html

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garamono 柄もの toys with a handle
Given to babies to make them smile.
- left - darumabue だるま笛 Daruma flute (Miyagi)
- middle - gatagata カタカタ rattle (Yamagata)
- right - furi-daiko 振り太鼓 drum to swing around (Fukushima)

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kisha 汽車 train toys / Naruko


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Toogatta Onsen 遠刈田温泉 Togatta Hot Spring


jidoosha 自動車 toy of a car with driver
With moving wheels. About 13 cm high

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usu to kinu 臼と杵 mortar and mallet / pestle


..... Miyagi 宮城県

Made as miniature items for girls to play and practise kitchen work.
Well loved as souvenirs from a stay at a hot spring.


宮城県鳴子温泉 Naruko Onsen
With a chrysanthemum pattern. 8 cm high.




宮城県弥治郎 Yajiro
With striped patterns from the Yajiro kokeshi dolls. 29 cm high.

- reference : asahi net gang/gang_kiji -
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https://omamorifromjapan.blogspot.com/2020/01/usu-kinu-mortar-mallet.html

KAPPA - Jizo legends

https://kappapedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/kappa-jizo.html

Kappa Jizo

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There are various legends and statues in Japan.


source : Rob on facebook

Inspired by this photo by Rob on facebook !

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鞍手郡 Kurate district



In front of 地蔵堂 the Jizo Hall there is a huge rock.
Once a Kappa, who wanted to steal the horse of the Lord, was kicked by it and caught. He had to swear he would not do it again and write this on a piece of paper.
The paper was buried in the ground below this rock.



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カワランベ Kawaranbe, local name for Kappa
Near the river crossing in Kiso there was a Kappa coming out with a suribachi 擂鉢 mortar on his head.
A bit further downriver was a rock called abura-ishi アブラ石 "fat rock) and many people came here to kill themselves.
When they carved the feature of Jizo Bosatsu in the rock, people stopped coming.



.......................................................................................... Niigata 新潟県
北蒲原郡 Kita-Kanbara district

Villagers were much troubled by a Kappa pulling children into the river.
So they put a stone statue of Jizo near the river bank and prayed to it.
Since then the trouble stopped and people called the stone statue
河童地蔵 Kappa Jizo.



.......................................................................................... Oita 大分県
佐伯市 Saiki city

Once upon a time 金田家 the Kanada family had a Jizo statue in front of their home. This place had been a swamp, where Kappa and ghosts used to come out.
When they put up the Jizo statue and prayed to it, nothing bad happened any more. Jizo would hide the children under his robes if a wicked Kappa showed up.



.......................................................................................... Tottori 鳥取県

If there was a place with a lot of damage by a Kappa, people placed a stone statue of Jizo nearby and prayed to it.
Once a strong Samurai came past and killed the Kappa, later praying to it as Jizo. The statue was soon called
河童地蔵 Kappa Jizo.


.......................................................................................... Yamaguchi 山口県

The Kappa in the river often killed people, so the villagers caught it.
He had to promise not to do any more harm until the bottom of the stone Jizo would rot away.



.......................................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県
下部町 Shimobe town

wankashibuchi 椀貸淵 "river pool for trays and bowls"
The お地蔵淵 Jizo River Pool is also called 巴淵 Tomoegafuchi.
At the bottom under a rock there lives a Kappa. If the villagers had a meeting with many people they came here to ask for trays and bowls.
Once they forgot to bring them back and Kappa got angry, never lending them any more.

. Zenwanbuchi 膳椀淵 "river pool for trays and bowls" .


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. Jizo Bosatsu (Kshitigarbha) 地蔵菩薩 .
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Kappaishi 河童石 Kappa Stone
Nagasaki - Suijin-Sha 水神社 Shrine of the Water Deity



. Kappa ishi 河童石 Kappa stone legends .


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