. Shinto Shrines (jinja 神社) - Introduction .
. kami 神 Shinto deities .
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majin, mashin 魔神 - akujin, akushin 悪神 devil, Teufel
. Oni 鬼 the Japanese Demons .
A counterpart of Oni is the akuma 悪魔, translated as Devil
(but a bit different from the Christian image of THE Devil (Teufel) or Satan.)
evil spirit, fiend
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reddo debiru レッドデビル red devil Daruma
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. Shrine, Shinto Shrine (jinja 神社) - Introduction .
. kami 神 Shinto deities - ABC-LIST - .
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根子岳に魔神集へば年暮るる
nekodake ni majin atsumeba toshi kururu
when the devils come
to meet at Mount Nekodake
the year comes to an end ...
保坂春苺 Hosaka Shui
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The Myth & Legend of Nekodake, one of the five peak of Mount Aso - 2,207 m.
Aso Mountain which consist of five brothers. Takadake known as the eldest brother, followed by
Nakadake, Eboshidake, Kishimadake and the last being Nekodake.
... Nekodake, being the youngest among his brothers is a very mischievous boy and always quarreling and giving trouble to his elder brothers.
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. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .
. Hitotsume Kozo 一つ目小僧 Young Monk with One Eye .
... me hitotsu kozoo 目一つ小僧 is simetimes seen as 悪神 Akushin.
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// 悪神
When 菊地ミヤ Kikuji Miya was 11 years old, she had reikan 霊感 a religious inspiration.
She was taught by the Kami and sometimes could see the appearance of a Kami. When her husband died, she went to the mountain to meditate.
During a perios of danjiki 断食 fasting, she met the Kami, but was overcome by doubts about zenshin 善神 the good or akushin 悪神 the bad Kami and threw her shintai 神体 statue of the Kami into the river. The statue came back, but now her inspiration told her to burn it first ant then throw it into the river. She also had another period of fasting.
She did not hear anything from the Kami for about 2 weeks, so she put the statue in a basket and stood under a waterfall.
When she asked about akushin 悪神 the devil, some strange things appeared but she could see it after one week.
People said that Miya has always done as the Kami had told her.
....................................................................... Fukushima 福島県 .....
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// 悪神
At the beach they prepare a small hut, 鳥小屋 Torigoya, for a ritual on January 14 (the end of the New Year period), make offerings on a small alter and then burn the hut.
In the fire of the hut they roast mochi 餅 rice cakes and lite the pipes to use the smoke to make 悪病・悪神 the bad deities of Illness and Evil leave.
The rest of the ashes they take home and spread it at the entrance as mayoke 魔よけ an amulet.
. mochi 餅と伝説 Legends about rice cakes .
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Fukushima 相馬郡 Soma district 飯館村 Iitate village // 悪神
If someone has a grave illness and the akushin 悪神 needs to be driven out, people call for a priest to hold rituals.
Especially for netusbyoo 熱病 illness with high fever they called a powerful priest.
....................................................................... Gunma 群馬県 .....
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利根郡片品村花咲 Tone district, Katashina village Hanasaki hamlet
. hanasaki ishi 花咲石 Hanasaki Stone with flowers .
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Gunma 勢多郡 Seta district 鬼石町 鬼石町 Onishi machi // 鬼石 Oni Ishi
. Onishi Jinja 鬼石神社 Onishi Shrine .
The protector deity of stones was called 鬼石明神 Onishi Myojin and is known at least since 1703.
Daibagami (daibakami) だいば神 / 大馬神 is a strange illness of horses.
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網走市 Abashiri city 浦士別町 Urashibetsu town // akujjn 悪神
Two sisters were lured to the river by akushin 魔神 two Deveil brothers. The elder sister feared they would be eaten and run away as fast as she could.
....................................................................... Kochi 高知県 .....
majin no bakegi 魔神の化木 a tree becoming a devil
A man was about to cut down a large tree in his fields, when suddenly his stomach begun to hurt very much and he died.
Now his younger brother tried to cut the tree and burned the saw dust in a fire. That night an old man with white hair appeared in his dream.
He said he was 魔神の化木 Akujin, the incarnation of the tree, and said he would take away the cut part.
When the man awoke next morning, he realized his right arm was cut off at the shoulder.
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Kochi 中村市 Nakamura city // 魔神
meshi o kuwan kaka 飯を食わん嬶 a wife that did not eat rice
A greedy man got a wife that did not eat any rice. He thought that was strange, hid in the straw and observed her.
At lunchtime he saw her cook a large portion of rice and eat it with two mouths at her head.
That day when the man was in the bath, the wife took the bath tub and carried it deep into the mountain. The husband got hold of a branch and jumped out of the tub.
Now he saw that a devil had shape-shifted into a kumo クモ spider and would come back in the evening.
That evening he made a fire in the stove and when he saw the spider coming down, he burned it.
....................................................................... Miyagi 宮城県 .....
A strange O-Ise Sama お伊勢様 the Deity of Ise had come down to the village, but the elders told the villagers it was just majin 魔神 the devil and they could get rid of him with harae 祓え a purifiction ritual. They did it and all was well again.
. harae 祓 purification ritual .
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Miyagi 塩竃市 Shiogama city 浦戸 Urado / Urato
When the deity 塩釜明神 Shiogama Myojin had come to the area, a devil named 香背男（かしろを) Kashirao chases it to the island 桂島 Katsurajima. The chase went up and down the mountains and the devil was finaly slain at the beach near トヤケ山 mount Toyake.
The beach is now known as 鬼ヶ浜 Onigahama. The place where the body was buried is now called 香背崎 Kashirasaki.
. Shiogama Myojin 塩釜明神 Shiogama Deity .
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. daija, orochi 大蛇 the huge serpent, great snake legends .
The wife of 甲賀三郎頼方 Koga Saburo Yorikata had been kidnapped by a mashin 魔神 devil. Saburo and his two brothers went to the cave at 蓼科山 mount Tateshinayama to search for her, but the two brothers could not get out any more.
Yorikata had eaten awamochi 栗餅 foxtail millet rice cakes, the offerings for the deity in the cave, and stopped being a human.
He turned into a huge serpent and lived on in 諏訪湖 Lake Suwa.
. mochi 餅と伝説 Legends about rice cakes .
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Nagano 木曽郡 Kiso district 木曽町 Kiso town
akushin sama 悪神様 the honorable devil
This bad deity is bewitching people. To get rid of the bewitchment, people have to pray ask 御嶽教の人 for absolution rituals.
....................................................................... Niigata 新潟県 .....
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新発田市 Shibata city // 悪神
. Kamaitachi, kama itachi 鎌鼬（かまいたち） "sickle weasel" wind god Yokai.
If someone is cut by the sickle of a Kamaitachi, even if the wound is deep there is little bleeding and little pain.
If a man happens to enter the sphere where a Kami is wielding his sword, he might get this wound.
It is seen as the deed of the devil 悪神 Akujin. A good medicine for this kind of wound is burning Ise goyomi 伊勢暦 a calender from the Ise shrine and place the ashes on the wound.
The powder can also be spread on a weasel to make it disappear.
. Ise goyomi 伊勢暦 calender from the Shrine of Ise .
....................................................................... Okinawa 沖縄県 .....
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石垣市 Ishigaki city
. dokuro 髑髏 skull legends .
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下都賀郡 Shimo-Tsuga district // 悪神
. koto hajime 事始 beginning of work and activities .
On the 28th day of February, people used to celebrate the beginning of work in the New Year.
They prepare special food and put it in a basket with holes on a long pole on the roof.
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. nanakusa gayu 七草粥 ritual gruel with seven Spring vegetables .
If people prepare ritual rice gruel with seven herbs, the akushin 悪神 devil will not come into the home.
It will also prevent people from falling ill and bring them good luck in the coming year.
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- reference : nichibun yokai database -
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