Tale 14 — The rites of Okunai-sama and Oshira-sama
In 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 day of the New Year the villagers gathered to hold its festival. Oshira-sama, a household god kept as small cloth-wrapped figures, was enshrined in the same way, and sometimes white powder was painted on the sacred image. It was said that whoever slept in the one-mat room in the house of the Daido era always met with something strange.
- Land
- Tono
- Beings
- Okunai-sama, Oshira-sama
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