. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo 江戸の名所 .
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Legends from Chiyoda ward
. Chiyoda ku 千代田区 Chiyoda ward - "Fields of Eternity" .
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. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .
. Samuhara サムハラ SA MU HA RA divine amulets .
A man in Edo had carried a SAMUHARA amulet on his body. When he fell from his horse one day, he was not hurt.
Soon this kind of amulet became popular in Edo.
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Chiyoda Inari Jinja 千代田稲荷神社 Shrine
渋谷区道玄坂2-20-8 / 2 Chome-20-８ Dogenzaka, Shibuya
This shrine is famous for its many spiritual experiences when visiting.
The Deity is said to prevent fire and many come here to pray.
It was erected in 1457 by Ota Dokan to protect his new castle of Edo.
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. Edo Bancho 江戸番長 Banchō, Bancho .
- haifuri tanuki 灰降狸 the ash-throwing Tanuki
- shari 舎利 sacred bones of Buddha
- . Banchō Sarayashiki, Sara yashiki 皿屋敷 "the Dish Mansion" .
..... where the ghost of 菊 O-Kiku comes out of a well. Okiku and the Nine Plates.
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Ichibancho 一番町
kori 狐狸 fox and badger
In 新道一番町 Shindo Ichibancho there lived the family of 上原庄作 Uehara Shosaku. His wife suddenly found that from her arm about 10 red hair had begun to grow. She pulled them out immediately and found them to be almost 60 cm long. But pulling them out did not help, they soon grew back. Once she had peed on a place with black gravel. A doctor tole her, this must have been the deed of a fox or badger.
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Morikawa Inari 森川稲荷, 三光院いなり Sanko-In Inari, 腰掛稲荷 Koshikake Inari
On the 11th day of the second lunar month in 1827, on the night before the festival of the First Day of the Horse, the low-ranking Samurai 幸吉 Kokichi from 新道一番町 Shindo Ichibancho told his master that he was off to the Morikawa Inari shrine, where he lived.
Next morning his master found a wooden statue of Inari at his doorstep.
From this day on, if he had a wish to make to Inari, he would ask Kokichi to mediate for him.
On the first day of the third lunar month, his master and 若殿 the young lord made an offering of ritual Sake for the Deity. Looking closer the next day, half of the Sake and the other food offerings were gone.
So they thought the Inari deities from Sanko-In and the Koshikake Inari had come too.
. Inari 稲荷神社 fox shrines in Tokyo .
. hatsu uma, hatsu-uma 初午 First Day of the Horse .
hatsu uma moode 初午詣 first shrine visit on the day of the horse
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. Hibiya 日比谷 / 比々谷 Hibiya district legends .
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. Kajibashi 鍛冶橋 Kajibashi Bridge .
nezumi 鼠 mouse, rat
In the house of 堀大和守 Lord Hori at Kajibashi bridge, his servants observed a rat that would place a small piece of 南鐐 silver into an offering box at the kamidana 神棚 shelf of the gods for about 14, 15 days in a row. The couple of the house was very happy and begun to use the money for shopping!
And well, you guess, the rat never showed up again.
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. Kanda 神田 Kanda district legends .
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. Konyachoo 紺屋町 district for indigo cloth dyers .
kamikiri 髪切 cutting the hair off
A servant from a metal dealer at Konya-Cho went out to do some errants. When she came back home, she realized that someone had cut off her hair without her noticing anything.
When people pointed with their fingers at her head, she was so embarrassed she lost consciousness.
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. oyako tanuki 親子狸 parent and child badger legend .
Otama-ga-ike お玉ヶ池, close to 東紺屋町 Eastern Konya-Cho.
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. Koojimachi, Kōjimachi 麹町 / 麴町 Kojimachi district legends .
and 三年坂 Sannenzaka / Sannen-zaka
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Ushigafuchi, Ushigabuchi 牛ヶ淵 （うしがふち）
The canal at the slope Kudansaka 件坂下 / 九段坂 is called 牛ヶ淵 "riverpool of the bull".
It is a 魔所 bewitched place.
Once upon a time, a man called 石川新六 Ishikawa Shinroku got up early and passed here around the ushimitsu 丑三つ cursed hour, with a lantern hanging from a stick. He saw a man with his body cut in half, just the upper body was visible.
When he went there later to have a look for the lower body, there was nothing, not even the upper part any more.
. ushimitsu 牛三 the double-hour of the bull.
from one to three at night make a curse.
Utagawa Hiroshige
. 九段坂 - 牛ヶ淵 Kudanzaka Ushigabuchi .
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. kuchisake onna 口裂け女 slit-mouthed woman .
from Sangenjaya 三軒茶屋 Sangen-jaya, "three tea stalls" .
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ayashi mono 怪しき物 something strange
Once a doctor named 岡本玄意 Okamoto Genya walked with another doctor along the 弁慶堀 Benkei-Bori moat.
They saw a strange dog, walking like a man. Another man tried to press the monster down, but could not do it. Then came a carpenter back from work and dispelled the monster. The other man went to his lodgings and developed a high fever.
岡本玄意 Okamoto Genya (1587 - 1645)
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Genyadana Hamadaya 玄冶店 濱田家
Hamadaya is the name of Okiya, a house where Geisha lived,in the Meiji period(1868-1912).
One famous geisha from Hamadaya was Kawakami Sadayakko (1871-1946) who later became Japan's first international superstar.
Madame Sadayakko toured Europe and the U.S. with her husband Kawakami Otojiro and gave performances. Her presentations were very well -received and she gained great popularity. A high-class Japanese restaurant called Hamadaya was founded in 1912 after the first owner of restaurant inherited the name of long and distinguished history of Sadayakko.
The geographic name of Genyadana originates from Genya Okamoto (1587-1645),
a doctor who lived here in the Edo period (1600-1867).
Genya was a doctor of the Tokugawa Shogunate. When Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, fell ill of small pox, Genya treated the Shogun Iemitsu and completely cured Shogune of the disease. Genya leaped to fame as a good doctor. His descendants lived in this area for nine generations and continued the profession using this grand family name.
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. isha 医者, ishi 医師 doctors in Edo .
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Minamihōgen-zaka 南法眼坂 Hogenzaka Hogen slope
another name for the slope 行人坂 Gyoninzaka, on the divide of 三番町 Sanbancho and 四番町 Yonbancho.
At the housing of workers for the Edo bakufu, the 小十人組 Koshoningumi at the Hogenzaka slope, a maid saw hinotama 火の玉 a a ball of fire on a rainy evening, but nobody believed her.
On the next rainy night, one of the men had a fight with a strange person with long white hair, eyes glimmering like gold and holding a ball of fire in his hand. He killed the monster.
They say it was the doing of a fox that had been burried when they built the house.
. hinotama, hi no tama 火の玉と伝説 Legends about fire balls .
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. reiken 霊剣 the magic sword .
江戸神田小柳町 Kanda Koyanagicho
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. shachihoko 鯱 gable decoration .
shachi, shachihoko 鯱 "Dragon Fish"
from 虎御門 Toranomon to 小石川御門 Koishikawa no mon. tsunjikaze つんじかぜ .
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. dokuro 髑髏と伝説 Legends about the Skull .
sharekoobe しゃれこうべ Sharekobe
at Fukiage Goten 吹上御殿 / Fukiage Gosho 吹上御所
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tanuki 狸 badger
In August of 1795, in the estate of the 小倉 Kokura clan the servant of the retired lady became missing.
In the same year in November there was something strange in the living quarters of the women and they found the missing servant.
She had been taking care of three young men and then died.
But in the estate were also many Tanuki. The ritual food offerings in August usually went missing by next morning and it must have been these Tanuki.
All the young maid servants quit soon after they heard this story.
. tanuki 狸 - mujina 狢 － racoon dog, badger legends .
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- reference : nichibun yokai database -
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. Edo, Tokyo 江戸 - 東京 - 伝説 Legends Index .
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. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo 江戸の名所 .
. Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government .
. Doing Business in Edo - 商売 - Introduction .
. shokunin 職人 craftsman, craftsmen, artisan, Handwerker .
. senryu, senryū 川柳 Senryu poems in Edo .
. Japanese Architecture - The Japanese Home .
. Interior Design - The Japanese Home .
. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .
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