. Kaido 街道 The old highways .
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Chichibu Kaido 秩父街道 Chichibu Highway
Chichibu Ookan 秩父往還 Chichibu Okan
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It begins at 石原村 Ishihara village at the old 熊谷宿 Kumagaya postal station of the 中山道 Nakasendo in Saitama.
Along the gorge 荒川渓谷沿 of the river Arakawa to 秩父大宮 Chichibu Omiya (now Chichibu city).
Then over the pass 雁坂峠 Karisaka Toge to 甲府 Kofu in Yamanashi.
彩甲斐街道 Saikai Kaido / 雁坂道 Karisaka Michi
Now most of it belongs to the 国道140号 National Highway Nr. 140.
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In the Edo period, a pilgrimage route linked together 34 sacred sites of the old Chichibu Province.
The Chichibu pilgrimage
dates back to the early 13th century. It originally consisted of 33 temples dedicated to Kannon but by 1536 a 34th temple was added to the list with the consequence that the Saigoku, Bandō and Chichibu pilgrimages together form a 100-temple Kannon pilgrimage.
... it takes 100 kilometres to reach all the temples.
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Chichibu Shrine (秩父神社 Chichibu-jinja)
According to text in the Sendai Kuji Hongi (Kujiki), Chichibuhiko-no-mikoto, the tenth-generation descendant of the Kuni no miyatsuko of Chichibu Province, established the shrine in the tenth year of Emperor Sujin to worship Yagokoro-omoikane-no-mikoto. ...
In the Nara period,
copper was discovered in the Chichibu district.
During the Kamakura period,
the shrine merged with a neighboring temple, and was known as Myōken-gū until the separation of Shinto and Buddhism (Shinbutsu bunri) in the late-19th century.
In the Edo period,
it was one of 34 sacred sites of the old Chichibu Province or Chichibu District.
In the Meiji period
it took the name Chichbu Shrine, with the characters 知知夫神社 appearing on the tablet of the torii. ...
... The shrine's grounds include a number of subsidiary shrines. A Tenjin Shrine, Tōshō-gū, and a Suwa Shrine are among them. ...
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. Chichibu no Tengu 秩父の天狗さま The Tengu from Chichibu .
. Chichibu Yomatsuri 秩父夜祭 Night Festival in Chichibu .
. Mitsumine Jinja 三峰神社 Mitsumine Shrine .
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. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .
Tales told by 望月整子 Mochizuki Yoshiko
秩父街道の伝説と昔話 Tales from the Chichibu Highway
Once upon a time,
弘法大師 Kobo Daishi was in 川浦地方 the Kawaura region and begged an old woman for some kayu 粥 rice gruel made with 粟 millet.
The old woman said she had kept some ヤマメ Yamame trout in the gruel and it tasted unpleasant, so she could not give it to him. Kobo Daishi said if she would let the fish back into the river, they will come back to life. When the old woman threw the boiled 山女魚 Yamame into the river, they came back to life and swam away with the rice gruel still on their bodies.
Since that time, the Yamame in the river 笛吹川 Fuefukigawa have some spots like millet grains on their body.
. Kōbō Daishi Kūkai 弘法大師空海 - 伝説 Kobo Daishi Kukai Legends .
. 笛吹川 River Fuefukigawa .
"River where the flute was played" in Yamanashi
................................................................................. Yamanashi 山梨県
東山梨郡 Higashi-Yamanashi district 三富村 Mitomi mura village
In the river Fuefukigawa there were two hollows and then from Mitomi the lumber was transported downriver.
If anything fell into the hollow, it was lost to the deep bottom.
To prevent things from getting lost, people made offerings of 酒1樽 one barrel of sake rice wine and 赤飯 one dish of auspicious red rice to the Suijin 水神 Deity of Water.
The barrels and rice were bound together strongly and placed into the hollow in the evening. Next morning they would float empty on the water.
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横瀬町 Yokoze town
kyojin 巨人 a giant
Once a giant took 武甲山 Mount Bukkosan and 宝登山 Mount Hodosan and put each one in a straw basket. Then he put one on each side of a tenbinboo 天秤棒 shoulder carrying pole made from the ridge of 尾田藤 Odafuji.
Part of the mountains fell off and became 宝登山 Hodosan and 箕山 Minoyama.
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- reference : nichibun yokai database -
201 秩父 legends to collect
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