March 21, 2017

YOKAI - narigama narukama

https://darumapilgrim.blogspot.jp/2010/12/okayama-shrines.html

Kibitsu Jinja 吉備津神社
Okayama. 岡山県岡山市吉備津931


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Called Kibi-no-kuni in ancient times, the Kibi region was so powerful that it could even compete with the Yamato Dynasty (government that ruled over Japan mainly in the Yamato region during 4th-7th centuries). Even today, valuable cultural assets and huge burial mounds remain in this peaceful rural area.
The Kibitsu Shrine in the eastern part of the Kibi region is where the Okibitsuhiko-Daijin is enshrined. Okibitsuhiko-Omikami is the general who brought stability and peace to this region.

As legend goes, he was the one who built the foundation of the current Kibi culture. The shrine's Honden and Haiden were reconstructed in 1425 and both are designated as national treasures. Here at the Kibitsu Shrine, a special ritual called Narukama-Shinji 鳴釜神事 is conducted in which a pot is beaten and the sound that comes from doing so is used to determine if your wish will come true or not.
Additionally, this is the shrine where the legend of driving away the ogres has been handed down which served as the base for the folk tale Momotaro (story of a boy born from a peach who, after growing up, drove the evil ogres away).
source : www.japan-i.jp

Some legends say it is the severed head of Ura, boiled in the huge pot, and it sometimes makes a noise, crying.

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鳴釜(なりがま) Narigama Yokai Monster
A tsukumogami originating from the myth of an iron kettle which could predict one's fortune.

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