みなさまこんにちは、スタッフYでございます。

 

本日も暑いですね…。もうこのセリフさえも口にしたくないクーラーの中ばかりの生活、皆さまいかがお過ごしでしょうか。少々体がだるかったり、ついつい冷たいものばかり口にして胃腸の不調がでてきたりしていませんでしょうか。私もその一人です。

 

 

 

 

そろそろ夏の疲れがでてきたり、でもこれから本格的な夏休みを迎える予定あるという皆様のために、本日は少し違ったひんやりを探してみました。

 

ここ愛知県ですが、先日から名古屋市博物館にて

「水木しげる生誕100周年記念　水木しげるの妖怪 百鬼夜行展　～お化けたちはこうして生まれた～ 」

 

そんな夏にピッタリのこの展覧会もぜひ訪れたいのですが、そういえば妖怪で思い出しました。

昨年訪れた西尾市の岩瀬文庫を訪れた際に（確か夏だったような）ご当地妖怪なるものがいることを知りましてちょっと調べていたのですが、ここ愛知県にもご当地妖怪まあまあいるようです。

 

「磯天狗」（愛知県知多半島付近）

磯天狗（いそてんぐ）は、天狗という名前が付いていますが、河童（かっぱ）の仲間だと言われている妖怪。愛知県の知多半島に伝わる話では、暗い夜に漁をしていると大きな火の玉が2、3こ飛んできたそうでして、磯天狗のしわざだと思い、念仏をとなえていると火の玉はどこかへ飛んでいきましたが、とった魚は消えてしまったと伝えられております。

 

「ヤロカ水」（愛知県木曽三川付近）

ヤロカ水（やろかみず）は、江戸時代に尾張国 、美濃国 に現れた、「ヤロカヤロカ」と声を出す妖怪のようであります。今から2・300年前（江戸時代）雨が降り続き木曽川が増水。真夜中、川の上流で「ヤロカヤロカ」という声がしきりにするので、村人が「よこさばよこせ」と叫び続けました。すると川の水が急に増し、またたく間に村は水に飲み込まれてしまったという妖怪伝説。ちょっとリアル。

 

「二龍松」（愛知県豊田市付近）

とまぁ一部ですがご紹介いたしました。地域がどこかわかるだけで妖怪と共に伝えられるその伝説にどこかリアルを感じますね。肝心のルックスはいろいろ調べてみましたが、かわいらしく描かれたもの、おどろおどろしく描かれた古いものなど様々でしたが、真の姿を伺え知ることはできませんので、そこはおのおので想像してみることに致しましょう。

 

それにしてもご当地妖怪けっこう存在するようですので、夏休みの自由研究に困っているお友達はご当地妖怪と共に地図を覚えてみてもいいかもしれませんし、ご興味のございます方は水木しげる展や文献や地域などをこの夏、辿ってみてもよいかもですね。

 

それにしても、少々ひんやりしてきました。

 

それでは、ごきげんよう。

 

 

Hello everyone, this is Staff Y.

 

It’s hot again today…. I don’t even want to say this anymore, how is everyone doing in the air conditioner? Are you feeling a little sluggish, or are you suffering from gastrointestinal problems due to all the cold food you eat? I am one of them.

 

For those of you who are getting tired of summer and are planning to have a full-fledged summer vacation, I have found something a little different today to cool you down.

 

Here in Aichi Prefecture, the Nagoya City Museum has been holding a “Shigeru Mizuki 100th Birthday Celebration” since the other day.

The exhibition, “Shigeru Mizuki’s One Hundred Ghosts and Nightly Ghosts: How Ghosts Were Born,” is being held at the Nagoya City Museum from the other day.

is being held at the Nagoya City Museum. It seems that yokai are gathering in Nagoya in the middle of summer, and many works based on yokai by Shigeru Mizuki (1922-2015), one of Japan’s most famous manga artists, are being presented. Isn’t this chilly lol.

 

This exhibition, planned on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki’s birth in 2022, seems to focus on the behind-the-scenes of his yokai creation for the first time among the many exhibitions of his work that have been held.

The exhibition will showcase Shigeru Mizuki’s valuable collection of yokai-related materials and manuscripts of his manga works, which have helped establish the culture of enjoying yokai in modern Japan, and will focus on his work in further enriching the yokai world established by his predecessors, while respecting its coolness. I am very interested in his achievements as well as his coolness.

 

I would love to visit this exhibition, which is perfect for summer, but the mention of yokai reminded me of something else.

When I visited the Iwase Bunko in Nishio City last year (in summer, I think), I learned about local yokai and did some research.

 

Isotengu (near Chita Peninsula, Aichi Prefecture)

The “Isotengu” is a yokai that is said to be a member of the kappa (water imps) family, although it is named after a tengu. According to a legend from the Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture, while fishing on a dark night, two or three large fireballs flew into the air.

 

Yaroka Water (near Kisosangawa River, Aichi Prefecture)

Yarokamizu is a yokai that appeared in Owari and Mino provinces in the Edo period (1603-1868) and is said to have emitted a voice saying “yaroka yaroka. Two or three hundred years ago (during the Edo period), the Kiso River was swollen due to continuous rain. In the middle of the night, a voice kept calling “Yarokayaroka” upstream, and the villagers kept shouting, “Give it to us! The water suddenly rose, and in no time the village was swallowed up by the water.

 

Jiryomatsu (near Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture)

The Jiryomatsu (two dragon pines) seem to be the spirits of the pine trees at Chokoji Temple in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture. Two pine trees grew in front of the temple gate and were called “Erlongmatsu” by people because they looked like two dragons. One day, two children appeared at the temple and asked the priest to lend them a tin. The priest gave them a tin and a piece of paper, and the children wrote Chinese poems and celebrated, writing such phrases as “the temple of a thousand years” and “the ancient hall is deep with moss” before disappearing in the shade of the Erlong pine tree.

 

Well, I have introduced only a part of the legends. The legends that are passed down with the yokai are very realistic. I have looked up various yokai in terms of their appearance, and found that some are cute and some are horrifyingly old, but I cannot tell what they really look like, so I will leave that up to your own imagination.

 

Anyway, it seems that there are quite a few local yokai, so if your friends are having trouble with their free research during the summer vacation, they may want to memorize a map with local yokai. If you are interested, you may also visit Shigeru Mizuki’s exhibition and trace the history of the area this summer.

 

Oh, and it is getting a little chilly now.

 

Have a good day.

 

 

 

 

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