No. 1 — A giant bozu of the woods of Tokuo
In Inaba Province, the woods of Tokuo, where Nomi no Sukune was enshrined, were dark even by day and had the reputation of being haunted by a monster, a shape that should not be, known as a giant bozu, a huge shaven-headed figure. Hata Hanyata, a warrior of the Tottori domain, wanting to see for himself what it truly was, ate a meal at a teahouse near the woods and went into the woods at night. There he met a giant bozu so tall it seemed to pierce the clouds, its eyes glowing, but he was not afraid and went back to the teahouse. When he told the keeper of the teahouse what the monster he had seen looked like, the keeper himself turned into a giant bozu bigger still than the one he had described, and so startled Hanyata that afterward both the teahouse and its keeper vanished.
- Land
- Inaba and Hoki
- Setting
- Tottori City, Tottori
- Beings
- a giant bozu
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