T4 — Spirited Away, Other Worlds
People who vanish, and places one stumbles into and cannot find again.
- Strange Fates
- Shape-Shifting Animals
- Yokai and the Uncanny
- Gods and Belief
- Death, Ghosts and Omens
- Taboos and Customs
- How Places Got Their Names
- Mountain Folk and Strangers
- Spirited Away, Other Worlds
- Origins of Plants and Animals
Tono10 tales
- Tale 6The choja's daughter becomes the wife of a yama-otokoThe daughter of a choja, a very rich man, of Nukanomae in Aozasa village was taken and hidden away by something, and was long missing, but a hunter…
- Tale 7The daughter met again in Mount GoyoA daughter of Kamigo village went out to gather chestnuts and disappeared, and her family even held a funeral for her, but several years later a…
- Tale 8The old woman of Samuto comes home on windy daysA girl of Samuto in Matsuzaki village left her straw sandals under a pear tree and went missing, and after more than thirty years she suddenly came…
- Tale 31Children carried off by ijinAmong the children of households in Tono, every year there were many who were carried off by ijin, a stranger from outside the village, and went…
- Tale 34The woman of the Hanaremori choja mansionThe mountains of Shiromi led on to the Chojayashiki in Hanaremori, an uninhabited place; a man who burned charcoal there saw, at night, a long-haired…
- Tale 54The house of the dead at the bottom of the poolA servant of a choja, a very rich man, in Kawai village dropped an axe into a pool, and when he went down into the bottom of the water, he found the…
- Tale 63The mayoiga and the golden bowlThe wife of an ancestor of the Miura family of Oguni went deep into the mountains to gather butterbur shoots, and came upon a fine, empty house, a…
- Tale 64The mayoiga where a bridegroom lost his wayA man who left Kanesawa village to marry into Tochinai village lost his way on a mountain path and came upon a splendid, uninhabited house, a…
- Tale 75The woman who appeared at the match factoryAt the match factory shed that stood at the Chojayashiki in Hanaremori, a woman appeared in the doorway at night and laughed when she saw people, so…
- Tale 97A near-death experience in typhoid feverWhen Kikuchi Matsunojo of Iide fell critically ill with typhoid fever, he flew as if through the air toward his family temple, and within its gate…