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. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .
. Buddhist Temples and their Legends .
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Sanjusangendo 三十三間堂 Hall with 33 Spaces - Legends about 33
. Sanjusan Gendo 三十三間堂 Temple Hall in Kyoto. .
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. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .
......................................................................................... Kyoto 京都府
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京都市
Kyoto city 東山区
Higashiyama ward / 三十三間堂
. dokuro 髑髏 a scull .
後白河法皇 Emperor Goshirakawa and a ridge beam of the Sanjusangendo Hall 柳で三十三間堂の棟木.
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yoobutsu 妖物 a monster
Once a Samurai heard the story of a strange monster in 33 colors at 三十三間堂 the Sanjusangendo Hall.
He went there to have a look and saw
oni 鬼 a demon and
aonyuudoo 青入道 Ao-Nyudo, a blue Nyudo monster.
He was not afraid and asked them to change shapes as a snack for the Sake rice wine he had brought with him.
The monster turned into
yakimiso 焼き味噌 grilled Miso paste.
The Samurai put it into his mouth and swallowed it. And thus the monster was gone.
. Sanjûsangendô Munagi no Yurai 三十三間堂棟木由来 .
Heitaro and his wife, O-Ryu. お柳 O-Ryu is the spirit of
yanagi 栁 the willow tree.
. Aobōzu 青坊主と伝説 Legends about Aobozu, a "Blue Priest" Yokai .
......................................................................................... Tokyo 東京都
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江東区
Koto ward / 三十三間堂
makura no kai 枕の怪 the pillow monster
Near 三十三間堂 the Sanjusangendo Hall there was an empty house for many years.
When someone moved in there, he soon became ill.
From the storage place a cold wind came blowing, so he fell ill.
When they checked the place, there was an old
makura 枕 pillow.
They thought this pillow must be the reason of his illness and burned it.
When it burned it made the smell of a dead body.
And soon the man was healed!
Edo Meisho Zue
......................................................................................... Wakayama 和歌山県
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日高郡
Hidaka district みなべ町
Minabe town / 三十三間堂
O-Ryu Yanagi おりゅう柳 willow tree named O-Ryu
In the town Kumanogawa there was a large willow tree, called おりゅう柳 Willow Tree of O-Ryu.
It was cut down and used as the ridge beam for 三十三間堂 the Sanjusangendo Hall in Kyoto.
The tree was so large, they could hardly float it downriver.
There appeared a monster woman and begun to pull the tree downriver.
At the place where the tree was cut down, 十二薬師 12 Yakushi Nyorai are now venerated.
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......................................................................................... Aichi 愛知県
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豊田市
Toyota city
rei 霊 a spirit
At the temple Nr. 33 of the Shikoku Henro pilgrimage the leader of a group from Aichi suddenly had a vision:
"Please take me home with you!" a spirit begged him.
In former times, a man from 川下 Kawashimo got lost 33 times in the mountain and had died.
Since there was nobody to see him die, he could not go to
gokuraku 極楽 the Buddhist paradise.
高福山 Kofukuzan 幸福院 Kofuku-In 雪蹊寺
Sekkei-Ji - 四国八十八ヶ所霊場会
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Sekkei-ji is Temple 33 on the Shikoku Henro pilgrimage.
The temple was favoured by the Chosokabe clan under
Chosokabe Motochika who unified all of Shikoku.
He made Sekkei-ji his ancestral temple, and his son’s ashes were buried here.
The grave of Motochika is about twenty minutes on foot to the east.
- source : shikokutours.com/attractions ... -
. Chōsokabe Motochika 長宗我部元親 (1539 - 1599) .
......................................................................................... Fukushima 福島県
福島市
Fukushima city 飯坂町
Iizaka town
. rinju 臨終 death, deathbed / rinji 臨死 near death .
A man who was 33 years old dells of his near-death experience.
While he was walking he saw some mysteriouｓ red and blue lights.
People called him many times. Eventually he crossed
sansu no kawa 三途の川 the River Sansu, which was wide but shallow.
Walking on he saw
shide no yama 死出の山 the Mountain of Death.
At the other side of the river was a large plain with many flowers.
Then he saw a great estate with an iron gate.
Aka-Oni 赤鬼 and Ao-Oni 青鬼 were standing there and he asked them to let him go through.
They told him:
"It is still too early for you to come here, go back home, go home!"
Then he woke up ...
. Aka-Oni 赤鬼 and Ao-Oni 青鬼 Red and Blue Demon .
. Sanzu no Kawa 三途の川 River Sanzu, the river on the way to hell .
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Fukushima 石城郡
Iwaki district 田人村
Tabitomura village
On 仏具山 Mount Butsugayama three were 三十三観音 33 stone statues of
Kannon Bosatsu.
During a fire thay all jumped into the nearby river.
. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 伝説 legends about Kannon .
......................................................................................... Gifu 岐阜県
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揖斐郡
Ibi district 揖斐川町 Ibigawa town
nenbutsu ike 念仏池 the Nenbutsu Pond
Emperor 花山法皇
Hanayama Tenno (968 - 1008) once visited the temple Nr. 33 of 西国三十三番 the Saikoku Pilgrimage.
On his way back he rested at 谷汲山 Mount Tanigumisan.
In the pond was a stone monument with a bridge leading to it.
When he begun to recite the Nenbutsu prayer, water came flowing out, butsu butsu 仏、仏 like the sound of Buddha .
Now 地蔵さん
Jizo Bosatsu is venerated here.
. nenbutsu 念仏 Nembutsu Amida prayer .
......................................................................................... Nagano 長野県
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sanjuusann nen jichuu de ikita hito 三十三年地中で生きた人
2 men living 33 years under the earth
Once the farmers dug a well near the foot of 浅間ヶ嶽 Mount Asama.
At a certain depth, they did not find water but some roof tiles.
They thought this strange and dug deeper, where they found the roof and the storehouse.
Inside were two people of about 50 years.
They had lived there after a landslide 33 years earlier.
Originally there were four men trapped inside, but two had died.
They had eaten the rice and Sake ricewine from the storehouse to survive.
......................................................................................... Nagasaki 長崎県
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Nagasaki 南島原市
Minamishimabara city 北有馬村
Kita-Arima village
. suijin 水神 the Water Deity .
The villagers had take water from the riverside at Kita-Arima village and begun to live there.
One summer at the beginning of
doyoo 土用 the Dog Days the water stopped to flow.
They went to pray at 庚申神社 the Shrine Koshin Jinja.
After 33 days, the Koshin Deity appeared in a dream of the priest:
"The reason why dhere is no water is because 水神 Suijin the Water Deity had cursed the place."
The villagers threw a pregnant woman into the river as offering for Suijin.
The priest, the lover of the woman, threw himself also into the water and died.
Since then, 33 days after the beginning of the Dog Days, there is a bell ringing at the riverside.
. doyoo 土用 the Dog Days .
In former times, the DOYOO 土用 days (also spelled doyo) four times a year would be the 18 days before each changing to the next season, but nowadays they are only mentioned for the change from summer to autumn.
The timing is from 13 days after the “small heat” (shoosho) until the beginning of autumn.
......................................................................................... Okinawa 沖縄県
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島尻郡
Shimajiri district 南風原町
Haebaru town
. ryuuguujoo 竜宮城 Ryugujo, palace of the Dragon king .
A man from 与那覇村 Yohana village was welcomed and entertained at 龍宮城 the Dragon Palace.
One day he told the Deity that he wanted to go home.
The Deity told him that on year in the palace was as long as 33 generations on the ground.
The man still wanted to go home.
So the Deity gave the man one paper pacel and told him never to open it.
So the man took the pacel and returned home safely.
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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
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. Temples with legends .
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Fudo Myo-O Junrei - Fudo Pilgrims - INTRODUCTION .
. Legends about Death .
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. Persons, People, Personen and their legends - - ABC list .
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. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
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