oni hone bones

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hone 鬼の骨伝説　Oni Demon Legends about its bones

Kikotsuji 鬼骨寺 Kikotsu-Ji "Temple of Demon Bones"

. 鬼骨寺 Kikotsu-Ji - Tokushima 徳島県 .
鳴門市 Naruto city 北灘 Kitanada / 撫養町 Muyacho

There are various temples with this name:
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. ushi oni, ushioni, gyuuki 牛鬼 "bull-demon" .

horns of an Ushioni demon

. tsuno　角の鬼伝説　Oni Demon Legends about their horns .

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kikotsu no hito 鬼骨の人 Human with demon bones
author 津本陽 -- Illustrations 村上豊

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鬼の骨 (1969年)
早乙女貢 Saotome Mitsugu (1926 - 2008)

鬼の骨の話
三宅宗悦 Miyake Muneyoshi (1905 - 1944)

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gakibone 餓鬼骨 bones of a Gaki "hungry demon"
small pieces 下骨 to stabilize a hand fan, shoji 障子 sliding door or a byoobu 屛風 folding fan.

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .

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愛知県 Aichi 名古屋市 Nagoya

In Nagoya, 鬼の写真 photos of the bones of Oni have been on display.
They were taken by 葦原みづほ / 葦原瑞穂 Ashihara Mizuho.

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岐阜県 Gifu

. 念興寺 Nenko-Ji and the Oni head .
unagi to oni 鰻 the Eel and yooki 妖鬼 the Monster Demon legend

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岩手県 Iwate 九戸郡軽米町 karumai

On the first of the sixth lunar month, people cut the 鏡餅 Mochi rice cake offerings from the new the New Year and eat them. They are called "bones of the demons". On this day the Oni come into the homes, but the mochi are much too hard for them to chew and so they get out soon.

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長崎県 Nagasaki

In various parts of Nagasaki:
On the second day of the New Year people grill オンノホネ at a fire named 鬼火焚き Onibi-yaki.
On the seventh day, people it 七草ズーシ（雑炊） rice gruel.
Once upon a time, when the Oni were repelled from 鬼ヶ島 Onigashima, people had grilled and burned their bones.
The Mochi rice cakes grilled on this day might get stuck in the throat, so with the soft rice gruel they can be swallowed easier.

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大阪 Osaka

The Demon bones shown in Osaka at a certain temple, and the photos shown in Nagoya and Kyushu might have been the same thing.
The temple has the bones from an upper body and looked quite scary, they say.
But eventually people realized that the boned and horns of a Demon are just made-up stories and forgot about them.

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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
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鬼の骨 OK

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