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Kitsune-no-Yometori (Ishikawa, Hosu)
Kitsune-no-Yometori is a fox-bride-taking narrative of Hosu, Ishikawa, cited in Jomin (1967). Source: Nichibunken Folklore Database.
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A fox-bride-taking narrative of Hosu, Ishikawa, recorded in Jomin (1967).
Description
Kitsune-no-Yometori (fox-bride-taking) is a yokai narrative registered in the Nichibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) Strange Phenomena and Yokai Folklore Database. The region field records Hosu County (Hoshi-gun), Ishikawa Prefecture. The source card cites the Chuo University Folklore Research Society, "Ishikawa-ken Fugeshi-gun Noto-cho, Takakura-chiku Chosa Hokokusho," in Jomin (1967). IZANORA preserves the source-card metadata and region as the anchor and adds relations from the cited source and region.
Sources
日文研 怪異・妖怪伝承データベース: 狐の嫁取り
Primary source中央大学民俗研究会
中央大学民俗研究会、「石川県鳳至郡能都町 高倉地区 調査報告書」、『常民』、1967年、国際日本文化研究センター「怪異・妖怪伝承データベース」ID 1070037
https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/cgi-bin/YoukaiDB3/youkai_card.cgi?ID=1070037狐の嫁入り - Wikipedia 日本語版
Secondary sourceWikipedia contributors
狐の嫁入りの二類型(怪火行列 / 天気雨)と古典文献(江戸期奇談集)における嫁入り行列譚について整理。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8B%90%E3%81%AE%E5%AB%81%E5%85%A5%E3%82%8A
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