Tale 32 — Mount Senbangatake's white deer and the Shisuke mountain gods
The swamp at Mount Senbangatake lay in a valley that smelled terribly raw, and the mountain took its name from the time long ago when a hunter called Hayato, pursuing a white deer, stayed there for a thousand nights. The deer fled toward the next mountain, breaking one of its legs as it went, and at last died there. That place was called Shisuke, and it is said that the white deer is worshipped there as the Shisuke mountain gods, gods of the mountains.
- Land
- Tono
- Beings
- white deer
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.