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oni no men 鬼の面 伝説 Oni Legends about demon masks
kimen 鬼面
. men, omote 面 masks - Introduction .
Saga - men buryuu 浮立面 masks for a dance 面浮立
- - - collection of Gabi Greve - - -
Hannya 般若 Hanya
This mask is used in Japanese Noh theater, representing a jealous female demon.
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Three Oni masks of 婆面
Grandmother, 爺面
Grandfather and 孫面
Grandchild Demon
. 滝山寺鬼祭 Takisan-Ji Oni Matsuri Festival .
. Toyohashi Oni Matsuri 豊橋鬼祭 Festival .
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. origami no oni 折り紙の鬼 Oni demons from folded paper .
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. Folk Art from Oita .
- reference source : eonet.ne.jp/~i-kimoto/Furusato... -
mask made by 虎熊佑 Torakumasuku / 民芸六郷山房 store in Akimachi Sedota, Kunisaki
oni-e men 鬼会面 mask for the Oni-E ritual on New Year
国東六郷満山修正鬼会 Kunisaki Rokugoman Shujo Oni-E
Mask for the New Year rituals at Tendai sect temples, Shuni-E 修正会.
In Kunisaki area the priest 仁聞菩薩 founded many temples since 718.
At the temple 三ケ寺 Sanga-Ji an old ritual with Demon masks is performed.
逃げ惑ふ衆に鬼会の鬼猛り
川上紅二 KawakamiBeni
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. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .
onimen 鬼面 demon mask
There was a rumour that a demon was walking along in dark nights, so they put up a sign at 古宮 the old shrine to warn people.
Some villagers wanted to teach a lesson to a vigorous friend. So he had to get out early, putting on the white robes of a dead person and hide on top of Torii gate of the shrine. The others followed slowly, a bit frightened, and put on red Demon masks. The guy on the gate became afraid and fell right down. The others laughed merrily.
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Once a traveling 能楽師 Noh-Master stayed over night in an old temple hall. Since it was so cold, he put a demon mask over his face to sleep. Some other people around thought it was indeed an Oni !
............................................................................ Aichi 愛知県
設楽郡
Shitara district
. mokichi no men 茂吉の面 /茂吉面 the mask of Mokichi .
and the sakaki oni 榊鬼 Sakaki demon and a kagura performance at the Mikawa Matsuri
Yamami Oni
- The Okumikawa Hana Matsuri
- source : pref.aichi.jp/global/en -
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Aichi 名古屋市
Nagoya 熱田区
Atsuta
onimen 鬼面 masks from thick paper
高蔵不動院 Takakura Fudo-In
Nagoya-shi, Atsuta-ku, Takakurachō, 5−8
Every year on the 5th of January the ritual of Shuushoo-E 修正会 is celebrated.
It is also known as
the "Festival of the Demons of Yakushi Nyorai 大薬師の鬼祭".
12 men from Atsuta of the age of 25 and 42 (13 men on a leapyear) participate.
The demon masks of the temple are made of strong thick paper and ward off evil influence for the coming year.
The masks are imitations of the one's from the "Bull Festival of Kyoto" 京都牛祭.
- see below,
Ehime, 宇和島牛鬼祭り Uwajima Ushi-oni festival .
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豊橋市
Toyohashi City
. oni matsuri 鬼祭り Oni Demon Festival .
The climax of the festival is part entitled “The Teasing of the 'Aka-Oni' Red Ogre and 'Tengu' Goblin”,
in which a long-nosed Tengu drives away a raging Aka-Oni ...
............................................................................ Aomori 青森県
三戸郡
Sannohe district 南郷村
Nangomura
onioba, oni-oba 鬼おば "old Hag Demon" - 赤鬼の面 mask of Aka-Oni
A traveling child once lost its way and stayed over night in a lonely house. The owner was the Old Hag Demon with a maks of a red Oni. When the child woke up at night, it saw the demon roast a baby on a stick and devour it. It ran away as fast as it could and was saved by a charcoal maker in the forest.
. oniko, oni-ko 津軽の鬼子 Tsugaru demons .
kuro-oni no men 黒鬼の面 mask of black Oni
赤倉山神社 Akakurayama Jinja （百沢東岩木山1-39）Hyakuzawa Higashiiwakisan
source : yukitomanager.blog.jp/archives...
............................................................................ Ehime 愛媛県
北宇和郡
Kitauwa district 吉田町
Yoshida
. Uwajima Ushi-oni matsuri 宇和島牛鬼祭り Uwajima Ushi-oni festival .
牛鬼の面（かぶ） Mask of an Ushi-Oni for the festival
............................................................................ Gifu 岐阜県
揖斐郡
Ibi district 揖斐川町
Ibi
oni no men 鬼の面
The daughter-in-law went out every evening with a scarf covering her head. The old mother-in-law did not like that and tried to frighten her with the mask of an Oni.
But the daughter was not surprized at all, she just sat down and folded her hands in prayer. When mother wanted to go away, she could not get the mask off her face.
This is the origin of the rock called でこしき岩
dekoshiki-iwa, おでこさん O-deko San
"Head Rock".
- a similar legend is told here :
. yome odoshi men 嫁おどし面 mask to scare the bride .
Fukui, Yoshizaki 吉崎の御坊鬼面 demon masks
- Also see below, Nagano.
............................................................................ Hiroshima 広島県
bakemono 妖 - 鬼面 monster with Oni mask
福島伊予守屋敷の雪隠に、妖がいた。夜、厠へ行くと毛の生えた長い爪の手で尻を撫でられた。ある人がその厠へ行くと、屋根から鬼面に似た顔が覗き、尻を撫でられた。これと組討し、刺殺したところ、大きな猿であった。
kitsune 狐 fox
When walking in the evening, there was a fox named 於三 Osan. When a 能師 Noh actor tried to shock the fox with a mask of an Oni or O-Tafuku, the fox Osan stopped and wanted to have the mask. When the man gave her the demon maks, the fox taught the man how to shape-shift.
Shortly after they found the fox dead, with the demon mask in her mouth.
Another version tells of a hunter, who shot her with the mask in her mouth.
. kitsune to oni 狐と鬼 伝説 Legends about fox and demon .
............................................................................ Kagawa 香川県
高松市
Takamatsu
source : blog.livedoor.jp/ufodouji-tec_rec/archives.....
. kimengani 鬼面蟹 crabs with a demon face .
onigani 鬼蟹 demon crabs
takebungani 武文蟹 / 武文ガニ Takebun crabs
Heikegani 平家蟹 Crabs of the Heike clan and Heike legends
Setsubun no Oni 節分の鬼
節分の日、男は鬼の面をかぶって戸口に外に立ち、女はお多福の面をかぶり連れ立って家々を廻る。お多福が家に入ると鬼も入ろうとするが、お多福は鬼が入るのを制し、そしてその家から米や銭をもらう。
............................................................................ Kagoshima 鹿児島県
gagomen ガゴ面
The origin of this word comes from a child's play, where kids put both hands on their face to pretend they are an Oni.
When a child does not go to sleep easily, the mother who sleeps close to it tells them to go to sleep fast, otherwise a real Oni would come and bite it.
There are also many fearful Yokai masks in Kagoshima. If parents want to chide their kids, they tell them
"men don ga kuru" 面どんが来る "The honorable Mister Mask is coming."
The words モッコ
mokko, モウコ
mooko or 嚙もうぞ
hamoozo are also known in other parts of Japan.
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kawayagami 厠神 toilet god
Before entering the outhouse, you have to cough lightly to clear the throught and give the Toilet Deity a signal of your coming.
Once 比丘 a nun forget to do this, went inside and so dirt got on the demon mask. The Demon got angry and prevented the nun to come again, causing hermental disturbances.
. kawayagami 厠神 the toilet god - Introduction .
............................................................................ Miyazaki 宮崎県
amanosakahoko, ama no sakahoko 天ノサカ矛 / 天逆鉾 "Heavenly Upside Down Spear"
on 高千穂峰 Mount
Takachiho.
Below the prongs is the face of an Oni.
..... Ninigi-no Mikoto descended on top of the Holy Mt. Takachiho-no-Mine. ... This mysterious Heavenly Lance has been the cause of much speculation and opinion as to why it was staked upside down in the top of the mountain Takachiho-no-Mine.
- reference source : general_sasaki/shinwano_butai -
. 高千穂峰 Takachiho Kagura Masks .
............................................................................ Mie 三重県
onioshi, oni-oshi 鬼押 "hitting the Oni"
A New Year ritual on the first day of the second lunar month.
Two men, one with a red and one with a blue demon mask walk around the temple hall three times. After that 100 men waiting outside with oak wood sticks surround them and hit them. A man who hits an Oni will have good luck and a rich fishing harvest in the coming year.
The two actors of the Oni are not to complain, even if they get hit hard and die from the hitting.
............................................................................ Nagano 長野県
北安曇郡
Kita Azumi district 白馬村
Hakuba
nikuzukimen 肉付面 mask with flesh sticking to it
This
shichido no men 七道の面 "mask of seven roads" is from the shrine 北城の切久保の宮 Kirifurimiya at Hokujo hamlet.
This is a story of a daughter-in-law who got harassed by her mother-in-law. The daughter stole 鬼面 one mask and tried to frighten her mother at night. But the mask kept sticking to her face, so the woman went to a cave at 楠川 the river Kuzugawa.
That is why to our day there are only six masks at the shrine.
- - - - - There are similar legends told in other parts of Japan.
See above, Gifu
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Nagano 飯田市
Iida city
鬼面山 Mount Kimenzan and a Tengu legend
The mother of this story teller was kidnapped by a Tengu living on mount Kimenzan. when she was young.
While she was near a tree in her garden, a tengu came and lured her away. Suddenly she was on top of Mount Kimenzan. She took care of the household of the Tengu for a while and was then suddenly back home.
鬼面山 Mount Kimenzan (1.890 m high)
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tsuina 追儺 "demon exorcism" -Devil-Expelling Ceremony
source : takara.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp
Tsuina mask from Matsumoto, Nagano from the temple 牛伏寺
. tsuina 追儺 "demon exorcism" .
with more masks
............................................................................ Saga 佐賀県
藤津郡
Fujitsu district 太良町
Tara
. onibako onibako 鬼箱 box with Oni masks .
竹崎観世音寺修正会鬼祭 At the temple Takezaki Kanzeon-Ji Demon Festival
............................................................................ Tokyo 東京都
港区
Minato ward
渋谷金王麿 Shibuya Konnomaru，夜叉神 Yashagami deity
At 長谷寺 the temple Hasedera in 麻布笄町 Azabu, Kogaicho.
源義朝の臣、渋谷金王麿が長者丸というところに築城のとき、城の北隅に鎮地の神として石像を埋め置いた。江戸時代に阿部豊後守の臣安川繁成がその地に住んで井戸を掘りその石像を発見した。これを身近に置いて愛玩していると金王麿の霊がたびたび奇瑞を現すので、ついに奉安したものという。その後石像にかたどった鬼の面を奉納し、祈願すると霊験あらたかといわれ今なお多くの信仰を得ている。
............................................................................ Wakayama 和歌山県
和歌山市
Wakayama town
nana fushigi 七不思議 the seven wonders of Wakayama town
hakagaku no onimen 墓額の鬼面 demon mask on a grave stone marker
- The other six are:
紀伊那賀郡小倉村七不思議。小倉の蛙、流注の名灸、秤石、袂石、一葉の松、蔵王権現の霊告。
............................................................................ Yamagata 山形県
鬼面川 river Omonogawa - kataba no ashi 片葉の葦 one-sided reed
When the beautiful 小野小町
Ono no Komachi looked at her face at the river 吾妻川 Agatsumagawa, she saw her face all tired from the long travel and wrote a waka poem about it.
Then the river got his name "River showing a Demon Face".
Due to a curse of
Ono no Komachi there grows only one-sided reed along the river Omonogawa.
吾妻川 岸の流れに立ち寄れば いつしか映る鬼の面影
source : komav7.com/onogawa/2010hp/ehon...
. Ono no Komachi 小野 小町 beauty and poetess . - (c. 825 — c. 900)
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Omonogawa-River - The Shore: The Relationship Between Man and River
The source of Omonogawa-River springs from Akita and Yamagata prefectures. Located at the border of Daisenyama-Mountain that stands at 920m above sea level, it provides fresh water to the famous rice-producing Yokotebonchi-Valley.
Stretching 133km long, Omonogawa-River is a relatively calm river. It flows from the capital of Akita Prefecture.
In the past,
Akita had an extended shipping system and Omonogawa-River was used as one of its main transportation medium for rice crops and Japanese cedar lumber.
Currently,
the river system supports disaster prevention measures. It also creates and manages outdoor leisure centers for the benefit of the residents of the valley, reducing at the same time, the gap between man and nature.
To this effect, the city of Omagari, which has a history of more than 80 years of firework-producing technology, holds a national competition that attracts more than 10,000 spectators every summer to its riverbanks.
- source : tohoku-epco.co.jp/investment -
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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
- reference - 鬼面 -
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