yamabito

Yamabito — the people who live deep in the mountains.

Tono4 tales

• Tale 7The daughter met again in Mount GoyoA daughter of Kamigo village went out to gather chestnuts and disappeared, and her family even held a funeral for her, but several years later a…
• Tale 29The tengu and gold of Mount KeitoTo Mount Keito, where a tengu, a long-nosed mountain spirit, was said to live and which even those on pilgrimage to Hayachine avoided, a man known as…
• Tale 30A big man sleeps at HayachineA man from Oguni village went to Hayachine to cut bamboo, and found a big man lying on his back in a thicket of dwarf bamboo, asleep and snoring…
• Tale 31Children carried off by ijinAmong the children of households in Tono, every year there were many who were carried off by ijin, a stranger from outside the village, and went…