. Yama no Kami 山の神 Yamanokami - Introduction .
. Ta no Kami 田の神 Tanokami - Introduction .
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Yama no Kami 山の神 God of the Mountain
and Legends from Niigata 新潟県
. Legends about Yamanokami 山の神と伝説 .
山の神まつり Yamanokami Festival
角田山の中腹 half-way to Mount Kakudayama
Children have to crawl below the small torii 鳥居 gate to pray for health and well-being.
March 9.
. Yama no Kami matsuri 山の神祭り Yamanokami festivals .
at 東蒲原郡 Higashikanbara 鹿瀬町 Kanose / 東蒲原郡 Higashikanbara 津川町 Tsugawa / 糸魚川市 Itoigawa city
岩船郡 Iwafune district 朝日村 Asahi / 刈羽郡 Kariwa district 小国町 Oguni / 南蒲原郡 Minamikanbara 下田村 Shitada
三島郡 Mishima district 三島町 Mishima / 中頚城郡 Nakakubiki district 清里村 Kiyosato
佐渡郡 Sado district 相川町 Aikawa
. Yamanokami Festival at 白根市 Shirone town .
On the 16th day of the second and tenth month a Tanokami Matsuri 田の神まつり festival for Tanokami and Yamanokami is held at the farm houses.
. Yamanokami and 鬼神 Kijin，山の地神 Yama no Chijin .
. Yamanokami and Tengu 天狗 the Mountain Goblin .
. Yamanokami and Jūni sama 十二様 Juni Sama "Honorable 12" deities .
juunikko ジュウニッコウ（十二講) Junikko prayer groups
中魚沼郡 Naka-Uonuma district 川西町 Kawanishi / 長岡市 Nagaoka 成願寺町 Joganji
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In most regions of Niigata,
the day of Yamanokami is 旧2月9日 the 9th day of the 2nd lunar month.
On this day Yamanokami is shooting arrows or kidnapping humans,
so it is not allowed to go into the mountain forests.
....................................................................... 東蒲原郡 Higashi-Kanbara district .....
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阿賀町 Aga city // 上川村 Kamikawamura village
山の神
A husband went to the mountain to 炭焼き make charcoal, but dit not come back. When she went looking for him, she saw another woman sitting close, watching over him.
When the wife called her, the woman disappeared and her husband fell down into the deep ravine.
Yamanokami is a woman and often guards and watches over forest workers.
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三川村 Mikawamura village
. juuroku dango 十六団子 dumpling offerings for day 16 .
The same ritual is held at
岩船郡 Iwafune district 朝日村 Asahimura village
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紫雲寺町 Shiunjimachi
. koosaku no kamisama 耕作の神様 Kosaku no Kami, Deity of Cultivation .
....................................................................... 古志郡 Koshi district .....
山の神
Yamanokami is a woman with a rather wild character. She has only one eye and one leg.
Place names with 12 often refere to 12 places or trees sacred to Yamanokami.
There is a boulder with one footprint and one imprint of a walking stick,
Yamanokami no ashiato 山の神の足跡石.
....................................................................... 南魚沼郡 Minami-Uonuma district .....
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六日町 Muikamachi town
. 社日様 Shajitsu Sama，田の神様 Tanokami Sama，作神様 Sakugami Sama .
....................................................................... 西蒲原郡 Nishi-Kanbara district .....
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弥彦村 Yahiko village / Yabiko village
shii no ki 椎の木 Shii oak, pasania tree
The Kami of 弥彦山 Yahiko-Yama (Yahikosan) came to the area first in the year 710.
At that time he put his a 杖 walking stick of a piercing branch of 椎の木 a Shii oak tree in the ground and it became 神木 the sacred tree of Yamanokami.
If there was something bad happening in the land, the priest could perform a divination. He took leaves and branches to make arrows to win any war.
. Hikosan 英彦山 / 弥彦山 Hikosan Shrines in Japan .
In Niigata also お弥彦様 O-Yahiko Sama
- 8 legends to explore about 弥彦山.
. shii 椎 Shii oak tree, pasania; chinquapin .
....................................................................... 西頚城郡 Nishi-Kubiki district .....
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能生町 Noo machi
. hebi 蛇と伝説 Legends about snakes and serpents .
The Deity of 天狗山 Mount Tenguyama (493 m) is the serpent, therefore people are not allowed to kill serpents.
....................................................................... 両津市 Ryotsu shi town .....
山の神
Once a man went to the mountain on the 9th day of the 2nd lunar month, but he died.
....................................................................... 佐渡郡 Sado district .....
. Yamanokami and Oni 鬼 demons .
at Kinpokusan 金北山の神 Mount Kinpokusan
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. Tonchibo トンチボ, Tonchiboo トンチボウ Tanuki from Sado .
Tonchibo is also a local name for the Deity of the Mountain Forest, Yama no Kami 山の神, and thus a taboo word for the local fisherman.
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赤泊村 Akadomarimura village
山の神
On the 9th day of the 2nd lunar month forest workers take a rest and stay in a place where they can eat and drink and celebrate Yamanokami.
Women are not allowed to be with them, since the female Yamanokami is very jealous and might shoot them with her arrows.
Once a stepmother made her step-daughter go to the forest on this day in the hope she would never come back.
But the step-daughter came back saying she enjoyed watching the men drinking. So the stepmother made her own daughter also go to the forest, but this poor child was shot with an arrow and died.
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If someone gets ill in the village, they say it is the curse of Yamanokami.
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小木町 Ogimachi town
Yamanokami no tatari 山の神の祟り the curse of Yamanokami
On the 9th day of the 2nd lunar month a man named 三吉 Sankichi went to work in the mountain very early.
He heard a voice calling him and turned around. At that point, an arrow hit his eye.
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栃尾市 Tochio city
Yamanokami no ki kiri 山ノ神ノ木キリ Yamanokami cuts a tree
On a rainy evening the forest workers stayed in the mountain hut over night.
The villagers heard the strange sound of someone cutting down a huge tree. When they checked next morning, not one tree was fallen down.
It must have been Yamanokami cutting trees.
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- reference source : nichibun yokai database -
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. Legends about Yamanokami 山の神と伝説 .
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. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .
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sangaku shinkoo 山岳信仰 religion of the High Mountains is a different matter.
. Shrine, Shinto Shrine (jinja 神社) - Introduction .
. kami 神 Shinto deities - ABC-LIST - .
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