About Tabuya
The tabu-no-ki is an evergreen that often stands in shrine groves near the sea. This archive summarizes, one by one, tales from regional legend and folktale collections and places each where it happened on today's map. The summaries are short retellings of the source, not the source itself.
Sources
Aozora Bunko (Yanagita Kunio, Tono Monogatari); National Diet Library Digital Collections (public-domain materials).
We do not publish tales that point to real incidents or victims after publication, or that identify existing private land or homes as places to visit.
English summaries are AI-assisted translations of our Japanese summaries, which were themselves drafted with AI from the source texts.