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. ichoo, itchoo - Icho Gingko tree and kigo .
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 sacred gingko tree - a prayer falls with every leaf  the huge trunk with the sacred rope  sacred gingko tree - how many tears have you witnessed ? |
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As I was standing below this old, huge tree, camera poised upward, there was all of a sudden a strong sweep of wind and all these leaves kept dancing around me, rustling down with a thousand strange voices, each one saying its own prayer ...
a sacred moment and so unexpected
sacred gingko tree -
each leaf rustles a prayer
as it falls
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Read about my visit to
Temple Tanjo-Ji, 誕生寺 Okayama
The Sacred Gingko Tree of Saint Honin !
It is more than 800 years old.
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. Kamakura and the old Gingko Tree .
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銀杏散る遠くに風の 音すれば
ichoo chiru tooku ni kaze no oto sureba
scattering gingko leaves
faint sound from the wind
far away
Tomiyasu Fusei (1885 - 1979)
TREES as topic for haiku !
. ichoo, itchoo - Icho Gingko tree and kigo .
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Aah, but a prayer always rises !
or
Leaves saying prayers?
Faith and prayer, expressed in haiku
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. Japanese Legends - 伝説 民話 昔話 – ABC-List .
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. 松虫姫伝説 - Legend of Princess Matsumushi .
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須賀川市
丑の刻参り
結婚したくない相手がいる、離婚したい、呪い殺したい時には、蟇目鹿島神社に丑の刻参りをする。これを21日間行い、21日目に神社境内のいちょうの木に五寸釘を親指で押し込んでしまうほど力がこもっていれば願いがかなうというが、その時は髪をふり乱し、口にかみそりをくわえ、鏡を抱き、手にろうそくを持っている。また、途中で人に出会うと願いはかなわぬという。
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相馬郡 新地町
Minamoto no Yoshiie 源義家
枝がすべて下向きに伸びているので、「さかさいちょう」と呼ばれているいちょうの木がある。昔、源義家がいちょうの枝をむちにしたが、ここで休んだときに、逆さにして槌に挿した。それがそのまま根付いて成長したので、今でも枝が下に伸びるのだという。
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. the head of Taira no Masakado 平将門 .
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. Yakushi sama 薬師様 at 戸倉山 Togura-Yama .
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下伊那郡 高森町
Jizoo 地蔵 Jizo Bosatsu
ささ竹の中に石地蔵があり、そこには大きないちょうの木があった。この木にいたずらすると瘧にかかって熱が出るといわれていた。実際、村松家の老人が掘り出すと大熱が出て、村人は大変驚いたという。
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佐渡郡 相川町
fundoshi ふんどし，koshimaki 腰巻
石名清水寺のいちょうの木には白いふんどしがぶらさがって人を驚かせた。千本の入野神社には赤い腰巻がぶら下がって人を騒がせた。
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. 山の神 and Tengu 天狗 the Mountain Goblin .
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. sakasa ichoo 逆さいちょう "the upside-down gingko tree" .
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. Icho from temple 珍蔵寺 Chinzo-Ji .
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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -
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41 銀杏 to collect
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Legend from Tochigi 栃木県
okaimo オカイモ Okaimo
In the family of 柴田良夫 Shibata Yoshio they eat Okaimo for breakfast from the last day of the last lunar month till the third day of the first lunar month.
Okaimo is a dish of yatsugashira 八頭 / ヤツガシラ a kind of 里芋 Satoimo Taro potato, ninjin ニンジン carrots, goboo ゴボウ Gobo burdock and dried small fish flavored with soy sauce.
Once upon a time, a travelling priest asked for some taro 苧 Colocasia antiquorum potato but did not get it and the head of the family turned into a stone.
Since then they prepare Okaimo, Oka-Imo.
In the family of 上沢芳夫家 Uesawa Yoshio they prepare Okanimo オカンイモ and azuki meshi 小豆飯 auspicious rice with red soy beans.
Okanimo is made with chicken soup, ginko 銀杏 small cut gingko nuts, 大根 daikon radish, carrots, Gobo and onions. Finally Taro and soy sauce is added.
On the third day of the New Year this dish is offered to the Buddhist and Shinto Deities. After the offering it is put into cooked rice and eaten in the hope it might keep away the
疫病神 Yakubyogami Deity of Disease.
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https://heianperiodjapan.blogspot.com/2019/05/shoyu-soy-sauce-legends.html
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Legend from Yamanashi, Minobu san
oha icho お葉公孫樹 / オハイチョウ leaves of the Gingko tree
In the year 1274 when Saint Nichiren had come to Minobusan, a visiting monk gave him poisoned mochi 餅 rice cakes and Nichiren was almost killed.
On this day he had been out walking and gave the rice cake to a shiroinu 白犬 white dog on the road. The dog died soon.
Nichiren took pity on the dog, held a memorial service for him and made a mound, where he put 銀杏の枝 his walking staff made from gingko wood into the ground.
The staff kept in the ground, got roots and became a strong gingko tree.
People used the leaves of this tree to protect themselves from poisoning.
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https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2020/01/minobu-kaido-highway.html
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Tengu Legend from Kyoto 京都府 Fushimi 伏見区
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In the year 1792, in a hamlet called 横大路 Yoko-Oji a man wanted to cut a branch from a three-pronged itchoo 銀杏 Gingko tree, when suddenly a strange wind begun to blow and something seemed to grab his throat, so he stopped immediately. Later he found some strange hair on his throat.
This Gingko tree must have been sacred to a local Tengu.
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https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2020/02/fushimi-kaido-highway.html
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