Tale 98 — Stone monuments to the roadside gods

There was a custom of erecting stone monuments carved with the names of mountains such as Mount Hayachine and Mount Rokkoshi, as well as stone monuments enshrining the mountain gods, the god of the fields, and Sai no Kami, by the roadside, and these were seen more often along the seashore than in Tono.

Source: Yanagita Kunio, Tono Monogatari (1910) — Aozora Bunko (Japanese text)
Land: Tono
Setting: Tono, Iwate
Type: Gods and Belief, Taboos and Customs
Beings: mountain gods

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