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Toono monogatari, Tōno monogatari 遠野物語 Tono Monogatari
Legends of Tono
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Tr. Ronald A. Morse
. Tōno monogatari 遠野物語 Tono Monogatari.
- Introduction -
Yanagita Kunio had his reasons for being interested in the afterlife.
He had lost his young girlfriend (a one-sided love affair on his side though) when she was just 19, dying of tuberculosis.
He kept asking himself where she would be now.
Still in his room? Or near her grave? or far away in paradise?
While she was ill at the home of her parents, he had written a story about a little bird (himself), which she could keep in her room beside her bed, and he would sing for her all day long to make her feel better.
His interest in the legends of Tono stemmed from this interest of the soul in the afterlife.
. Yanagita Kunio 柳田國男 .
(July 31, 1875 - August 8, 1962)
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Story Nr. 99 死者の想い
deals with this subject too - and is quite up to our times about the Great Tsunami !
The story deals with the aftermath of the Great Tsunami of the Sanriku Coast about 120 years ago, on June 15, 1896.
A man called Fukuji, who had moved from Tono and lived happily with his wife and three children in the coastal town of Tanohama lost almost everything in the tsunami, only he and two children survived. He just could not understand his fate and was deeply disturbed and unhappy all the time.
He had to live with his two children in a shelter near the site of his original house.
One day a year later, when he walked along the beach in the fog, he saw a pair in white robes, like the dead, coming nearer.
It was his dead wife with a young man (she had known befor marriage and who had also perished in the tsunami). As they walked past him his wife said with a happy smile "Now I am the wife of this man."
When he asked her: "But don't you worry about our children?" she began to cry, but the pair faded away in a hurry.
He tried to follow them and run after them, but to no avail. When he came home later he became sick and had to rest for a long time before recovering.
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source : NHK historia October 2014
But finally he realized he had to accept reality and that she was well cared for in the after life.
And now comes the jump to our times, and the great tsunami in 2011.
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A descendant of this man in the fourth generation was still living in the same area.
Fukuji was the ancestor of present-day Sakaki san 佐々木喜善の祖母の弟.
He had learned about his ancestor Fukuji in the year 1930.
The home of Sakaki san was hit by the Great Tsunami of 2011 and he lost his beloved mother.
He just could not get over this great loss and all the destruction on the beach.
After one year he had a dream:
His mother was in the kitchen preparing his breakfast.
"I am all right, I will care for you and be close to you" she told him - and at that point he woke up.
Suddenly he felt relieved and remembered more than ever the story of his great-grandfather and the loss he had suffered.
Live comes in many shades and humans have to deal with them the best as they can.
- source : textview.jp/post
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明治三陸大津波 Meiji Sanriku Dai Tsunami
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The 1896 Sanriku earthquake was one of the most destructive seismic events in Japanese history. The 8.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at 19:32 (local time) on June 15, 1896, approximately 166 kilometres (103 mi) off the coast of Iwate Prefecture, Honshu. It resulted in two tsunamis which destroyed about 9,000 homes and caused at least 22,000 deaths.
The waves reached a record height of 38.2 metres (125 ft); more than a meter lower than those created after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake which triggered the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents.
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On the evening of June 15, 1896, communities along the Sanriku coast in northern Japan were celebrating a Shinto holiday and the return of soldiers from the First Sino-Japanese War. After a small earthquake, there was little concern because it was so weak and many small tremors had also been felt in the previous few months. However 35 minutes later the first tsunami wave struck the coast, followed by a second a few minutes later.
Damage was particularly severe because the tsunamis coincided with high tides. Most deaths occurred in Iwate and Miyagi although casualties were also recorded from Aomori and Hokkaido.
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Toono monogatari, Tōno monogatari 遠野物語 Tono Monogatari
Legends of Tono
Tr. Ronald A. Morse
. Tōno monogatari 遠野物語 Tono Monogatari.
- Introduction -
Yanagita Kunio had his reasons for being interested in the afterlife.
He had lost his young girlfriend (a one-sided love affair on his side though) when she was just 19, dying of tuberculosis.
He kept asking himself where she would be now.
Still in his room? Or near her grave? or far away in paradise?
While she was ill at the home of her parents, he had written a story about a little bird (himself), which she could keep in her room beside her bed, and he would sing for her all day long to make her feel better.
His interest in the legends of Tono stemmed from this interest of the soul in the afterlife.
. Yanagita Kunio 柳田國男 .
(July 31, 1875 - August 8, 1962)
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Story Nr. 99 死者の想い
deals with this subject too - and is quite up to our times about the Great Tsunami !
The story deals with the aftermath of the Great Tsunami of the Sanriku Coast about 120 years ago, on June 15, 1896.
A man called Fukuji, who had moved from Tono and lived happily with his wife and three children in the coastal town of Tanohama lost almost everything in the tsunami, only he and two children survived. He just could not understand his fate and was deeply disturbed and unhappy all the time.
He had to live with his two children in a shelter near the site of his original house.
One day a year later, when he walked along the beach in the fog, he saw a pair in white robes, like the dead, coming nearer.
It was his dead wife with a young man (she had known befor marriage and who had also perished in the tsunami). As they walked past him his wife said with a happy smile "Now I am the wife of this man."
When he asked her: "But don't you worry about our children?" she began to cry, but the pair faded away in a hurry.
He tried to follow them and run after them, but to no avail. When he came home later he became sick and had to rest for a long time before recovering.
source : NHK historia October 2014
But finally he realized he had to accept reality and that she was well cared for in the after life.
And now comes the jump to our times, and the great tsunami in 2011.
.......................................................................
A descendant of this man in the fourth generation was still living in the same area.
Fukuji was the ancestor of present-day Sakaki san 佐々木喜善の祖母の弟.
He had learned about his ancestor Fukuji in the year 1930.
The home of Sakaki san was hit by the Great Tsunami of 2011 and he lost his beloved mother.
He just could not get over this great loss and all the destruction on the beach.
After one year he had a dream:
His mother was in the kitchen preparing his breakfast.
"I am all right, I will care for you and be close to you" she told him - and at that point he woke up.
Suddenly he felt relieved and remembered more than ever the story of his great-grandfather and the loss he had suffered.
Live comes in many shades and humans have to deal with them the best as they can.
- source : textview.jp/post
.......................................................................
明治三陸大津波 Meiji Sanriku Dai Tsunami
- quote
The 1896 Sanriku earthquake was one of the most destructive seismic events in Japanese history. The 8.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at 19:32 (local time) on June 15, 1896, approximately 166 kilometres (103 mi) off the coast of Iwate Prefecture, Honshu. It resulted in two tsunamis which destroyed about 9,000 homes and caused at least 22,000 deaths.
The waves reached a record height of 38.2 metres (125 ft); more than a meter lower than those created after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake which triggered the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents.
On the evening of June 15, 1896, communities along the Sanriku coast in northern Japan were celebrating a Shinto holiday and the return of soldiers from the First Sino-Japanese War. After a small earthquake, there was little concern because it was so weak and many small tremors had also been felt in the previous few months. However 35 minutes later the first tsunami wave struck the coast, followed by a second a few minutes later.
Damage was particularly severe because the tsunamis coincided with high tides. Most deaths occurred in Iwate and Miyagi although casualties were also recorded from Aomori and Hokkaido.
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !
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. Regional Folk Toys from Japan .
. Tohoku after the BIG earthquake March 11, 2011
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