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T8 — How Places Got Their Names

How a place came to be called what it is called.

Tono17 tales

Tale 1The origin and geography of TonoTono was a flatland surrounded by the mountains of Kamihei District, Rikuchu, and consisted of one town and ten villages. It is told that what was…
Tale 2The legend of the three yama-onna goddesses of HayachineThe three mountains of Hayachine, Rokkoshi, and Ishigami are said to have come about when a mother goddess visited with her three daughters and…
Tale 5Yama-otoko and yama-onna appear at Fuefuki PassFuefuki Pass, which had been a shortcut toward the coast, came to be feared by people after rumors spread that one might meet a yama-otoko, a man of…
Tale 8The old woman of Samuto comes home on windy daysA girl of Samuto in Matsuzaki village left her straw sandals under a pear tree and went missing, and after more than thirty years she suddenly came…
Tale 24The origin of old families called the Daido eraIt is said that old families in the villages are called the Daido era because they were families that had moved from Kai Province in the first year…
Tale 26The Abe clan, an old family of master carversThe Abe clan, called Tanbo-no-uchi of Kashiwazaki, was a well-known old family. A former head of the family was skilled at carving, and many of the…
Tale 27The golden millstone of IkenohataAt the Hei River, a young woman entrusted a letter to the ancestor of the Ikenohata family. Following a pilgrim's teaching, he rewrote the letter…
Tale 32Mount Senbangatake's white deer and the Shisuke mountain godsThe swamp at Mount Senbangatake lay in a valley that smelled terribly raw, and the mountain took its name from the time long ago when a hunter called…
Tale 63The mayoiga and the golden bowlThe wife of an ancestor of the Miura family of Oguni went deep into the mountains to gather butterbur shoots, and came upon a fine, empty house, a…
Tale 65The rain omen of AbegajoOn the steep cliffside of Mount Hayachine there was a rock called Abegajo, and it was said that the mother of Abe no Sadato still lived there. On…
Tale 66Hayachine and the legend of SadatoAt the climbing entrance on the Tsukumoushi side of Hayachine too there was a rock cavern called Abeyashiki, and the whole of Hayachine was said to…
Tale 67The legend of Sadato's old camp siteIn the mountains on the border between Tsuchibuchi village and Kuribashi village (formerly Hashino), two or three ri in from the climbing path, there…
Tale 76Chojayashiki and the legend of buried goldChojayashiki is said to be the site of the former dwelling of a choja, a very rich man, of long ago, and nearby Nukamori is said to have become a…
Tale 111Dannohana and the abandoning of the old at RendainoIn various places there is a place called Rendaino, facing Dannohana. In old times there was a custom of driving out elders who had passed sixty to…
Tale 112Dannohana and the relics of the Ezo mansionDannohana was said to be the place where prisoners were cut down in the age when there was a manor, and it stood on a hill at the village border.…
Tale 113Jozukamori, where an elephant was buriedJozukamori in Wano was said to be the place where an elephant had been buried, and it was told that one should flee there in times of earthquake. In…
Tale 114The origin of the mansion lord's grave and Yamaguchi MagozaemonThe Dannohana of Yamaguchi is now a common graveyard. Someone who dug beneath the large blue stone in the center found a jar, but was scolded by an…

Shiwa District1 tales

No. 55The master of the marsh of OnumaA man was asked, on the shore of Onuma, by the woman of the marsh, the spirit that rules a marsh, to deliver a letter to the man of Goronuma. On the…

Inaba and Hoki2 tales