No. 22 — A pilgrimage to Ise

Record

A child who gazed toward the south every morning wished to go on a pilgrimage to Ise, and was permitted by their parents to set out on the journey. In one village, a lone traveler was told to lodge in an empty house at the edge of the village; the house had an unsettling air, for the village's young men usually kept watch there with a fire burning. But the young men, glad that the child had come, prepared sake and food and left. (The text breaks off here, and what follows is not recorded.)

Source

Ogasawara Kenkichi (ed.), Shiwa-gun Mukashibanashi-shu (1938) — National Diet Library Digital Collections (Japanese text)

Land

Shiwa District

Type

Yokai and the Uncanny

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