Subject
I no kami äºç¥
The god of the well. Not the water and not a spirit living in it â the well itself, as a made thing, had a resident. Shrines were named for it and their offices with it, the senior priest called the director of the well and the junior its keeper. The clearest trace of the belief is in what was done when a well was closed: a green bamboo set upright in the middle and buried with it, left as the god’s way out. English writing meets the name in two spellings, and they are one deity, not two.
Note
- I no Kami: You Leave the Well a Way Out When a well was filled in, a green bamboo was stood in the middle of it. The custom explains itself in one clause: it becomes the passage of the well god.
Volume
Kwaidanote Casefiles
THERE IS NO COLUMN FOR IT
Five Stories of Japanese Horror Drawn from Strange Records
A domain forester keeps two books: one for the timber, one for what comes down the mountain at night. The second book exists because the first has no column for it.
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