2020/12/17

wakagaeri deities legends

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wakagaeri 若がえり / 若返り deities to keep you young

wakagaeri no mizu 若返りの水 rejuvenating water, the water of youth ochimizu 変若水 (おちみず、をちみづ)

- reference source : ehonizm.com... -

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. Fudo Myo-O 不動明王 .

. Aizu Wakagaeri Goshiki Fudo son 会津若がえり五色不動尊 .


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. Jizo Bosatsu, Jizō 地蔵菩薩 .
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Made by 森大造 Mori Daizo (1900 - 1988) 
- reference source : biwakobunkakan.jp -

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Kamihata Amidado 上波田阿弥陀堂 Amida Hall in Kamihata
4749-1 Hata, Matsumoto, Nagano


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. kami 神 Shinto deities .
wakagaeri no kamisama 若返りの神様
日吉神社の総元締 総元締 Kurume Sosha Hiyoshi Shrine
. Hiyoshi Jinja 日吉神社 Hiyoshi Shrines .


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


....................................................................... Fukui 福井県
小浜市 Obama city

happyaku bikuni 八百比丘尼 a nun for 800 years
Once upon a time, a fisherman caught 人面魚 a fish with a human face.
He wanted to share it with his friends and invited them.
During the preparation for the meal he realized that this was a special fish that should not be eaten.
He wrapped the fish in paper and asked his friends to throw it away on their way home.
But one man kept it and cooked a meal for his daughter with this fish.
The girl grew up, got married, but when her husband died, she became young again, married again and on and on...
The woman became ashamed of herself and became a nun.
She had lived for 800 years.
. Yao Bikuni 八百比丘尼 Happyaku Bikuni Legends .




....................................................................... Nagasaki 長崎県  
対馬市 Tsushima

wakagaeri mizu 若返り水 rejuvenating water
Grandmother had drunk from the well with the rejuvenating water and became young again.
She told grandfather about it. He rushed to the well and drunk and drunk . . .
until he ended up lying there as a baby.




....................................................................... Tochigi 栃木県
芳賀郡 Haga district 茂木町 Motegi town

wakagaeri no mizu 若返えりの水 rejuvenating water
Grandfather always wanted to get young again. He went to the mountain forest and did not come back.
Grandma and the villagers looked for him and found a baby near the well.
It was Grandpa, who had drunk too much.




....................................................................... Tokushima 徳島県 
海部郡 Ama district 日和佐町 Hiwasa town

. mochi 餅と伝説 Legends about rice cakes .
On the 15th day of the New Year people burn the New Year decorations on the beaches and along the rivers.
The mochi 餅 rice cakes grilled in the flames are eaten, because they bring riches, make you young again and prevent illness in summer.




....................................................................... Tottori 鳥取県  
西伯郡 Saihaku district 大山町 Oyama town

wakagaeri no mizu 若返りの水 rejuvenating water
Grandfather went to the mountain forest to work. He saw a bird drinkilng water in a valley and heard the bird sing:
"Now I will get young again!"
He drunk form the water and got young again himself.
Now came grandma and drunk also from the water, but she drunk too much . . .
and turned into a baby !

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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