usu kinu mortar mallet

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usu to kine 臼と杵 mortar and mallet / pestle



Different types of USU 臼


. mochitsuki 餅つき pounding rice .
with a large stone mortar and mallet

. mochi 餅と伝説 Legends about rice cakes .





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. Matsuo Basho .

寒菊や粉糠のかかる臼の端
kangiku ya ko nuka no kakaru usu no hata

Winter Chrysanthemums !
Coated with falling rice bran
From the hand-mill nearby.
- Tr. Oseko -


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- ABC - List of mortar and mallet from the Prefectures


................................................................................ Kanagawa



wooden souvenirs from Mount Oyama 大山みやげ
Isehara city and Odawara city 伊勢原市・小田原市
- reference : asahi net gang/gang_kiji kanagawa -



................................................................................ Miyagi 宮城県

Made as miniature items for girls to play and practise kitchen work.
Well loved as souvenirs from a stay at a hot spring.


宮城県鳴子温泉 Naruko Onsen
With a chrysanthemum pattern. 8 cm high.




宮城県弥治郎 Yajiro
With striped patterns from the Yajiro kokeshi dolls. 29 cm high.

- reference : asahi net gang/gang_kiji -


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. gangu 玩具　伝説, omochcha おもちゃ toy, toys and legends .
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................................................................................. Kyoto 京都府
北桑田郡 Kita-Kuwada district 美山町 Miyama town

yamanba 山姥 old mountain hag
In the morning of the 15th day of the first lunar month, the old mountain hag floats mochi 餅 rice cakes down the river.
If people eat these Mochi, they will be strong and healthy.
If the mountain hag makes Mochi on the 14th day, she uses a mortar and mallet made from 松 pine wood and thus the rice cakes have 松の香 a taste of pine.





................................................................................. Nagano 長野県

- folk belief -
Coming back from a funeral, people put the mortar and mallet outside the entrance of the home and hit the mortar two or three times.
After that they can go into the house.
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飯田市 Iida city

kinegazuka 杵が塚 mount for the mallet
Once the grandfather of 餅屋 a mochi shop made a mistake and hit grandma so strong she fell into the mortar and died.
Grandfather was extremely sad. He burried the mortar and mallet together with grandma in a grave and planted a cherry tree on it.
Once there came a yamabushi 山伏 mountain priest and stayed at the mochi shop over night. He killed grandfather and fled with the money.
The neighbours felt sympathy for the old couple and burried grandfather in the same grave as grandma under the cherry tree.


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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
03 臼と杵 - OK
25 臼　餅 (00)
319 臼 (also used in place names)
292 杵 (also used in place names)

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