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Narikama 鳴釜 Narigama yokai / Kamanari 釜鳴
. Narukama-Shinji 鳴釜神事 ritual at Kibitsu Jinja, Okayama .
A boiling water pot is beaten and the sound that comes from doing so is used to determine if your wish will come true or not.
. Minakamidera 水上寺 Minakami-dera Fudo Temple .
釜鳴の法 ritual in Spring
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A tsukumogami Yokai originating from the myth of an iron kettle which could predict one's fortune.
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A Narikama (also called Narigama or Kamanari)
is one of Japanese yokai (ghosts, spirits and monsters) that was portrayed in Sekien TORIYAMA's yokai art collection book: "Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro" (The Bag of One Hundred Random Demons; the term 'hyakki' in its title is a pun on the usual hyakki, replacing the character for demon which is written as "鬼" in Japanese with a character for vessel written as "器," and sure enough, most of the yokais shown in this book are tsukumogami [a type of Japanese spirits that originate in items or artifacts that have reached their 100th birthday and become alive]). It is a kind of the tsukumogami (specters transmuted from objects).
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Sekien portrayed the Narikama as a hairy yokai, putting a kama (a metal pot) on and holding a votive picture tablet in his hands as if it is doing fortune-telling. It is allegedly originated from the Narukama Shinji Ritual, practiced in Kibitsu-jinja Shrine in Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture. According to one legend, the ritual was started when an ogre named Ura or Onra, which had been killed by Kibitsuhiko no mikoto and become a deity to give divine messages to people through sounds of steam from an iron pot. Some say that the specter Narikama is this Ura portrayed as a tsukumogami of a kama based on the legend, thus depicting the kama as a specter.
In a similar way, there are other tales of divination by sounds from a kama. A farmer dug up an iron pot in a cist. When the farmer boiled water with the iron pot, it might sound, and whenever the pot made some sounds, it always rained on that day. Then it is said that the iron pot became famous as a weather forecaster.
Moreover, a kama yokai (metal pot specter) was portrayed in "Hyakki yagyo emaki" ('Night Parade of One Hundred Demons' picture scroll) in the Muromachi period, and the Narikama was supposedly modeled on it.
- source : japanese-wiki-corpus.. Narikama ...
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. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .
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In many rural areas of Japan, there are legends about a kettle or hearth that makes a noise. This is often not seen as anything special or auspicious.
This penomen often happens in the New Year bewtwen the first ne no hi 子の日 day of the rat and i no hi 亥の日 day of the wild boar and is then seen as something bringing bad luck.
If a cattle starts making noise, a man has to wear woman's robes to make it stop.
A woman has to wear man's robes to make it stop.
If a kettle starts making noise, people hang some new underwear of a woman on the lid to stop it.
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banyo 婆女 demon hag, mother in law
If the kettle in the kitchen makes a noise, on has to call out Banyo (Demon Hag). This will stop the fire below the kettle and bring good luck.
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kane ga naru 鐘が鳴る a temple bell rings
Sometimes the kettle begins to make a noise while cooking rice for dinner. Sometimes the sound resembles that of a temple bell. Adjusting the fire it may sound like someone playing the lute. Sometimes the sound can be heard just three times and brings joy to those who hear it.
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. A 刀鍛冶 sword smith named 国員 Kunikazu .
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平鹿郡 Hiraka district 平鹿町 Hiraka town
When a local Sake dealer made rice wine and boiled rice in the large kettle, the kette started to make a noise like 「もんもん！もんもん！」 monmon mon mon .
This sound can be heared from close by and from far away.
So the Sake dealer sold the kettle, but from that day on his business went down and bancrupt.
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遠野市 Tono city
Once a shugenja 修験者 mountain priest came to the town and performed a Kamanari ritual.
He boiled water in a huge kettel, placed a large wooden bottle on it and placed a lit on it.
Then he performed some ritual prayers and called out " Now, Kettle, begin to make a sound!"
The kettle sounded in a high and deep voise and then stoped.
(Some say it was the voice of the skillful priest . . . )
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