Tale 84 — Westerners who came to settle on the coast
In the Kaei years, when Sasaki's grandfather was young, many Westerners came to settle at Kamaishi, Yamada, and the tip of the Funakoshi peninsula, and Christianity was also secretly practiced; it was said that in Tono too there were those who followed it and were crucified. According to those who went to the shore, the ijin, a stranger from outside the village, were said to embrace and lick one another, and there were also many mixed children in the coastal region.
- Land
- Tono
- Type
- Strange Fates
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