. Edo shokunin 江戸の職人 Craftsmen of Edo - List.
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takumi 匠と伝説 legends about master craftsmen
takumi is often used for master carpenters.
shishoo 師匠 teacher, master, leader, mentor
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source : www.hida-takumi.jp
. Hida no Takumi 飛騨の匠 Master Builders from Hida .
Hida no daiku 飛騨の大工 carpenter from Hida, architect from Hida
Hida No Takumi Bunkakan - The Takumikan Craft Museum
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. shokunin 職人と伝説 legends about craftsmen, artisans .
Edo no waza to takumi 江戸の技と匠 The skilled craftsmen of Edo
. Hidari Jingoroo 左甚五郎 Hidari Jingoro .
Japanese artist, sculptor and master carpenter.
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. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .
akuryoo 悪霊 evil spirit
When the evil spirit of 藤原広嗣 Fujiwara no Hirotsugu begun to make cursed, his shishoo 師匠 mentor
吉備真備 Kibi no Makibi drove away the evil spirit.
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The Fujiwara no Hirotsugu rebellion (藤原広嗣の乱, Fujiwara no Hirotsugu no ran) was an unsuccessful Nara period rebellion led by Fujiwara no Hirotsugu (藤原広嗣) in the Japanese islands, in the year 740. Hirotsugu, dissatisfied with the political powers, raised an army in Dazaifu, Kyushu but was defeated by government forces.
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Kibi no Asomi Makibi 吉備真備 (695 – 775)
... In 737, he received promotion to the junior fifth rank. His influence at court triggered the Fujiwara no Hirotsugu Rebellion of 740. ...
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松山市 Matsuyama city // 長狐が我等の師匠 master fox
chooko 長狐 a long (master) fox
The wife of 河野通直 Kano Michinao (1564 - 1587), Lord of 伊予国 Io no Kuni, was bewitched and became two women. Nobody knew who was the real one. While eating her ears would begin to move, so they torured her to find out. And indeed, an old fox appeared in her place. When they tried to kill it. all the foxes from the Shikoku region came along.
They said this fox was the messenger 貴狐明神 of 稲荷 Inari and the master of all foxes in Japan. If they would not kill her, the foxes would leave Shikoku and do no more harm.
Michinao believed them and let the fox go. All the other foxes also left Shikoku.
. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
- This fox could have been the Japanese version of 貴狐天皇（ダキニ天） Dakini Ten
貴狐天王（きこてんのう) Kiko Tenno
source : youkaitama.seesaa.ne...
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東白川郡 Higashi-Shirakawa district 塙町 Hanawa town // 縫物の師匠
. kitsunebi 狐火/ キツネビと伝説 Legends about the "fox fire" .
The father of 藤田スイ氏 Fujita Sui, 藤原金次郎 Fujiwara Kinjiro, was nuimono no shishoo 縫物の師匠 a famous craftsman for sewing. He went with two companions to トウドウさん ／東堂山 Mount Todo San (668 m) and on their way home they took chikamichi 近道 a shortcut. They were wearing fashionable scarlet coats. On the way they sat down to have a smoke.
They saw a kitsunebi 狐火 fox fire appearing and disappearing, coming and going. They looked at it for a a while with enjoyment and then went home.
The family members told them they were smelling of shit. Their scarlet coats were full of fox shit.
Temple 満福寺 Manpuku-Ji at mount Todo San
Founded in 807, people came here to pray for prosperity and protection of their farm animals.
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Fukushima 耶麻郡 Yama district 猪苗代町 Inawashiro town // 師匠
jisatsu no shirase 自殺の知らせ message of a suicide
Late one evening two people came to the temple. The priest (師匠) told them they need not tell him anything, he knew already that two people had committed suicide by hanging.
The tow messengers became quite afraid.
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Fukushima 耶麻郡 Yama district 高郷村 Takasato village // 師匠
waka sama ワカ様 fortune teller
Female fortune tellers are called Waka Sama.
When 夏井 Natsui is taking over a woman in a session, she might jump up quite a bit when this happens.
Then she would turn toward the mentor and say:
"I am the protector deity of this place. I am コンピラサマ Konpira Sama. If you want to ask somethins, go ahead!"
Questions about something lost or a lost person would especially lead to a good result.
................................................................................. Gifu 岐阜県
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大野郡 Ono district 宮村 Miyamura village // 飛騨の匠
. uma 馬 koma 駒伝説 horse legends .
The horse statue made by a master craftsman from Hida at 一ノ宮 the Shrine Ichi no Miya ran away every night and devastated the fields.
So they crushed its eyes to keep it in its place.
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Hida Ichinomiya Minashi Shrine
As Hida's Ichinomiya (the highest ranking Shinto shrine in the area),
this shrine has been worshipped by local residents since ancient times. Many people visit the shrine to pray at the Hida Ikibina Matsuri (Live Doll Festival), Reisai (annual festival) and Hatsumode (the first shrine visit on New Year's Day).
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// 師匠
. Kashozan 迦葉山 a Tengu mountain .
群馬県 沼田市上発知町４４５番地 Gunma, Numata
The founder of this temple, Tenson Keijun 天巽慶順, was a great teacher and mentor.
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鳳球郡 Hosu district 穴水町 Anamizu town // 飛騨の匠
hiryuu 飛竜 Hiryu, a flying dragon
At the entrance to the home of 長谷家 the Hasegawa family there was a carving of a dragon made by a craftsman from Hida.
At night the dragon would fly away to the near fountain, take a bath and make steam float in the air.
. ryuu, ryū 龍 竜 伝説 Ryu - dragon legends .
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奥州市 Oshu city // 師匠
In the year 1877, the teacher of a terakoya 寺子屋 temple school saw the shadow of a young man moving on the sliding doors.
A hebi 蛇 serpent had shape-shifted into the young man to seduce the wife of the teacher priest.
. hebi 蛇と伝説 Legends about snakes and serpents .
. terakoya 寺子屋 "temple school", private school .
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Iwate 遠野市 Tono city // 師匠
norikoshi ノリコシ
Norikoshi is almost like a kagebooshi 影法師 Kageboshi, the full shadow of a person.
First the bold head of a priest becomes visible. Because it is not clear, people look closer. and it becomes bigger and biger, going over a roof. Then it comes down down again.
In the village 土淵村 Tsuchibuchi mura there lived kajiya 鍛冶屋 a blacksmith named 権蔵 Gonzo. One evening he came back to the house of his shishoo 師匠 teacher when he saw a man peeking at the daughter. He seemed huge like a rock and then shrinking rapidly. He soon jumped over the roof and disappeared.
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. kagebooshi 影法師 the full shadow of a person .
. kajiya 鍛冶屋 kajishi 鍛冶師 blacksmith .
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石巻市 Ishinomaki city 桃生 Momou // 師匠
. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
Toogoro kitsune 藤五郎狐 a fox named Togoro
On the border along 桃生村 Momou village and 中津山村 Nakatsuyama village there is a bridge over the river 古川 Furukawa called the 八景橋 Hakkeibashi. Around there lived an old fox called 藤五郎 Togoro. The used to bewitch travelers. Once shishimai no takumi 獅子舞の師匠 a mentor of the lion dance from Nakatsuyama village named 勘作 Kansaku with his troupe was invited to a village in Nagano and had to cross this bridge. It was evening already and there was a large estate inviting them to stay. They danced all night and got a lot of presents for it. The next morning when they came to 谷地 Yachi near the bridge, they found that all their presents had gone.
This was the wicked deed of the fox Togoro.
................................................................................. Nara 奈良県
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月ヶ瀬村 Tsukigase village // 師匠
kitsune 狐 fox
In the middle of 神野山 Mount Konoyama there was koedame 肥溜め an area for fertilizer. A student of 狂言 Kyogen passed here one night and was bewitched by a fox. He undressed and went into the dump all nakes, thinking a peace of shit was soap and smeared it all over his body. Other people passing by begun to laugh and he finally came back to his senses.
Forest Park Konoyama
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阿賀野市 Agano city // 師匠
. kamikuchi 神口 Shamanism .
kamikuchi 神口，hotoke no kuchikiki 仏の口聞き，kami oroshi 神オロシ
In 駒林 Komabayashi lived a blind Shaman. She learned the trade from her mentor since she was 20 years.
She could contact the spirit of a dead person and answer questions from the family.
- - - - - . Tonchibo トンチボ, Tonchiboo トンチボウ Tanuki from Sado .
Tonchibo is also a local name for the Deity of the Forest, Yama no Kami 山の神, and thus a taboo word for the local fisherman.
. Kamioroshi カミオロシ in Sado . .
Held in honor of Tonchibo.
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. yakan 野干 a monster beast from ancient China - maybe fox .
In Nanba lives a strange man who worked in the fields. He would get half naked, show his stomach and if someone shot at him, he was never hit.
Once a group of skilled hunters with their 師匠 master and asked the master to shoot at the man. The master hit the target and the man died. When the students asked how he did it, he said this man was in fact a fox and he had shot at the robes the fox in disguise was wearing.
Later they found the fox, who was shot dead.
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御前崎市 Omaezaki city // 師匠
jashin 蛇身 the body of a snake
Near 見付 Mitsuke there is a pond called Sakuragaike 桜が池 "The Cherry Blossom Pond".
皇円 Saint Koen (1074 - 1169), the mentor of 法然 Saint Honen, meditated here waiting for 弥勒 Miroku Bosatsu to come back the earth, trying to become a serpent that would never die. When he was about to die, he jumped into the pond and became a serpent.
. 法然上人 Saint Honen (1133 - 1212) .
. Miroku Bosatsu 弥勒菩薩 .
. hebi 蛇と伝説 Legends about snakes and serpents .
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Shizuoka 田方郡 Tagata district 戸田村 Heda village
. kimon 鬼門の鬼伝説 Oni Demon Gate Legends .
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飽海郡 Akumi district 遊佐町 Yuza tow // 師匠
. kooshin 庚申伝説 Legends about the Koshin Cult .
A leader of the Koshin cult was waiting in the evening before the festival. He prepared a special meal with fish looking like humans. The participants of the ceremony felt uncomfortable, but one ate a lot and the leader was content.
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. Edo, Tokyo 江戸 - 東京 - 伝説 Legends Index .
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