Oshira-sama

Oshira-sama — a household god kept as small cloth-wrapped figures.

Tono3 tales

• Tale 14The rites of Okunai-sama and Oshira-samaIn an old family, the Daido era, they enshrined a wooden image called Okunai-sama, a household god, carved from mulberry wood, and on the fifteenth…
• Tale 69The origin of Oshira-samaWhen the father of a poor farmer's daughter learned that she had become husband and wife with her beloved horse, he killed the horse. The daughter…
• Tale 70The origin of Okunai-samaThe Okunai-sama, a household god, was said to always be enshrined together with the Oshira-sama, a household god kept as small cloth-wrapped figures…