The Legends of Tono
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Hayachine, the highest peak in the Tono three mountains, cannot be seen from here. The small basin Tono, surrounded by low-lying mountains, other than Mt. Hayachine, long served as a castle town for the Nanbu Domain, and prospered as an important point for trade between the coastal towns of Kamaishi and Otsuchi, and the inland Morioka and Hanamaki. There are also tales of houses being haunted by people sacrificed in order to ward off floods Supplement 25, Legend In the mountains, packs of wolves and bears attacked humans, and in Rokkoushi, people feared monster-like monkeys called Futtachi.
There are also many tales of people being spirited away. Girls from Aozasa-mura and Kamigo-mura were snatched away.
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When she was young, she suddenly disappeared, leaving her sandals at the base of a pear tree. She had come to see nostalgic friends. Then she left Legend 8. Probably she had also been taken away by someone foreign, maybe a giant living in the mountains. The mountains around Tono are deep. There are also Mayoiga in Mt.
Shiromi Legends 63, However, when greedy people went in search of Mayoiga, it was nowhere to be seen. This may be one of the so-called hidden village legends. Villagers were frightened at the mountains where long-nosed goblins, giants and mountain witches were rampant. In Legend 5 it says that because, in recent years, people were certain to come across giants and mountain witches on the Fuefuki Pass that headed for Otsuchi on the coast, a road crossing the Sakaige Pass was built.
However, the mountain gods were even more frightening. In the mountains of Ayaori-mura, a man who drew a knife and slashed at a red-faced mountain god was kicked unconscious by the god and died three days later. It was in this manner that the mountain hamlets became connected to the spirit world.
‘Folk Legends from Tono’ brings new life to Kunio Yanagita’s fantastic tales
There are tales of people appearing in another place when they die Legends There are also various tales of omens and near-death experiences informing people of death. There are also tales of dead family members showing themselves Legends 22, And, what has been continually quoted after the massive tsunami in was Legend A man called Fukuji, who lost his wife in the Sanriku tsunami, met the ghost of his late wife in the Funakoshi seaside in the middle of the night.
However, she was with a man from the same village who had also perished in the tsunami, someone the wife was attracted to before they were married. Fukuji saw the two married as ghosts and became ill for a while. Located between private houses at the entrance to the mountains are Dendera-no and Dannohana, both on small hills. Whenever I visit Tono, I always go to Dendera-no. This was the place where seniors over sixty were abandoned. The humble straw hut where these people lived has also been restored here. From here, looking down on the houses of the village and over to the mountains in the back, I wonder what kind of thoughts the elderly had when they lived here.
While they were healthy they would have helped with work in the fields below and then returned here in the evening. They would have been able to stoke fires in the huts, but even so, how did the elderly survive through the cold of Tono's harsh winters? They were most likely waiting patiently for the day when they would be buried at Dannohana a communal burial site. And, one day, they would become ancestral spirits and stay at Mt.
Hayachine, and then return to their nostalgic homes during the Bon Festival. While the two are of different nature, humans can go back and forth between them. The deceased clearly exist in the memories of the living and the thoughts of the deceased are restored in the living. In a way, that is a consoling world picture. There we can see a circle of time where life does not end with death.
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Exposed to the threats of nature, the people surrounded by the spiritual world fostered a diverse range of beliefs. In addition to the ancient religions of Buddhism, Shinto and Shugendo, there were mountain gods, water gods, rice field gods, Okunaisama, Gongesama, Konseisama, Oshirasama, Zashiki-warashi and more. There are indeed a lot of stone monuments in this area. The simple monuments along the streets of Hiwatari, or the group of mountain gods stone monuments by the small shrine dedicated to Unedorisama, the god of marriage.
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