Tale 2 — The legend of the three yama-onna goddesses of Hayachine
The three mountains of Hayachine, Rokkoshi, and Ishigami are said to have come about when a mother goddess visited with her three daughters and divided the mountains among them according to the fortune of a dream. Because the youngest daughter received Hayachine, the most beautiful of the three, the women of Tono are said still to fear her jealousy and not play on that mountain even now.
- Land
- Tono
- Setting
- Tono, Iwate
- Beings
- mountain gods
This is an English rendering of our short Japanese summary of the source tale — a summary translated from the Japanese, not a translation of the original text. The summary was drafted and translated with AI assistance, and names and numbers were checked against our records.