Tale 102 — The red-faced giant of the Little New Year
On the night of the Little New Year, it was said that the mountain gods came out to play, and children were warned against going outside. A girl called Omasa of Marukodachi played the game of fuku-no-kami, a god of good fortune, alone, and it grew late; she met a tall man of strange form with a red face, and in her fear she threw down her bag and fled home, and was ill for a long time.
- Land
- Tono
- Setting
- Yamaguchi, Tsuchibuchi, 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.