Abacus Buddhist priest

The figure in bronze of "the abacus boy" set up by Sakaiminato-shi, Tottori, Shigeru Mizuki lord.

The ghost that an abacus Buddhist priest (I forget an abacus) or the abacus boy (そろばんこぞう) is handed down to the Funai-gun, Kyoto west branch temple. I am said to be the thing dressed in the Buddhist priest (boy) playing the abacus under the tree of temple and Shinto shrine at night.

Summary

I call the thing which begins to play the abacus with the figure of the Buddhist priest under the Japanese nutmeg near the temple flourishingly in an outcome, under a tree with "an abacus Buddhist priest" when I go along near the west light temple of 笑路 in 西別院村笑路 (existing: Kameoka-shi) at midnight. I am said to be the act of the raccoon dog, but, in the temple, it is said that the boy priest who gets a wrong calculation, and was scolded by a chief bonze of a temple hangs itself with the tree and committed suicide once and is said to be the soul of the Buddhist priest [¹].

In addition, I say the thing which appears with the figure of the boy under the big tree of the precincts every night at about 1:00 a.m., and begins the lesson of the abacus in 素盞嗚神社 next to this west light temple with "an abacus boy". This boy is a chief bonze of a temple called founder, 萬安英種 of the west light temple and, according to another view, is informed it when I am young when it is the figure which worked hard at study in secret at midnight [²].

Footnote

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1. For ^ Ioji Kakita, Tadahiko Tsuboi edition "collection of Kuchitan wave folklore" famous book publication 〈 fireside library 〉, 1,976 years, it is 59-60 pages.
2. ^ Katsuo Tanaka "place name origin legend and 動植物伝説続南桑民譚雑録一," it is 75-76 pages in "a trip and ten legends" 9 (consecutive number of volumes 117), 3 yuan company, September, 1937.

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• List of Japanese ghosts

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