T7 — Taboos and Customs
Things that must not be done, and customs kept in the land.
- 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
Tono16 tales
- Tale 25The origin of laying down one side of the kadomatsuThe ancestors of the Daido era arrived in this region at the end of the year, and before they had put up more than one side of the kadomatsu, it…
- Tale 47Rumor of the futtachi that frightens childrenIn this region, it was customary when scolding children to say, 'The monkey of Rokkoshi will come!' In fact, this mountain had many monkeys, old…
- Tale 50The kakko flowers of Mount ShisukeOn Mount Shisuke there bloomed kakko flowers, rare even for Tono. Around the fifth month, when the cuckoo called, women and children went up the…
- Tale 71The old woman's secret faithThe old woman who told the origin of Oshira-sama, a household god kept as small cloth-wrapped figures, was a devoted chanter of the Buddha's name…
- Tale 72The curse of Kakura-samaAt the mound by the entrance to Kotobata in Tochinai village, a wooden seated image, said to have once been kept inside a hall, was enshrined as…
- Tale 80Explanation of the Tajiri house's layoutThe author states that, in order to understand the previous tale, it is necessary to illustrate the floor plan of the Tajiri house, and states that…
- Tale 83The cursed old documentThe house of Ohora Mannojo, called the Daido era, in Yamaguchi, was built in a manner different from other houses, with its entrance facing the…
- Tale 98Stone monuments to the roadside godsThere was a custom of erecting stone monuments carved with the names of mountains such as Mount Hayachine and Mount Rokkoshi, as well as stone…
- Tale 102The red-faced giant of the Little New YearOn 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…
- Tale 103The yuki-onna who appears on the Little New YearIt was said that on the Little New Year or on a winter night with a full moon, a yuki-onna, a woman of the snow, appeared leading many children, and…
- Tale 104Walnut moon-viewing divinationOn the night of the Little New Year, there was a practice called moon-viewing in which walnuts were roasted in the hearth to divine the weather for…
- Tale 105The harvest divination of yonakamiOn the night of the Little New Year, there was a custom called yonakami, in which mirror rice cakes made from various kinds of rice were used, and…
- Tale 109The straw-doll sending of the Amekaze FestivalAround Bon, there was a custom belonging to the Amekaze Festival in which a straw doll larger than a person was made, its face drawn on paper, and it…
- Tale 111Dannohana and the abandoning of the old at RendainoIn various places there is a place called Rendaino, facing Dannohana. In old times there was a custom of driving out elders who had passed sixty to…
- Tale 113Jozukamori, where an elephant was buriedJozukamori in Wano was said to be the place where an elephant had been buried, and it was told that one should flee there in times of earthquake. In…
- Tale 119The origin of the shishi-odori songThere was a song that had long been used in the shishi-odori of Tono, and it differed somewhat by region and by person. What the writer heard was…
Shiwa District3 tales
- No. 24The calf chojaOn New Year's Eve, the father went out to shop, but instead of New Year goods he bought charcoal and came home with it, and his wife grew angry and…
- No. 47The mountain of abandoning old menIt was the custom to abandon a parent on the mountain once he turned seventy-two, but the son was moved by his parent's love in breaking twigs along…
- No. 50The wife who ate nothingA single man was working in the mountains, and when he told his companions that he wanted a wife who ate nothing, such a woman appeared and became…