Mr. Awano

A lightning ran over the sea, and a terrible thunderstorm that shook the earth. Somehow, purple clouds approached from the eastern sky with a mysterious singing voice as the villagers were breathing out.
At that time, a monk appeared out of nowhere near here appeared.
"If the purple cloud disappears and the singing voice ceases, build a company in that place. Myojin Susaki has just arrived from Awa no Kuni (now the southern part of Chiba Prefecture). "
So he said, the monk disappeared.
Eventually, the purple clouds became smaller when they came to the top of the mountain, diminished, and the singing voice stopped.
Finally, the villagers who returned to me, as the monk said, built a shrine on the mountain and celebrated it as "Awasu Myojin".
Many years later, when the shrine was old and about to collapse, the spirit appeared in the dream of the palace who tried to build a castle here, and told him to go away from the sea until the sound of the waves could no longer be heard. Therefore, the lord reconstructed Awasu Shrine in Miyata, Matsumoto Village
As a treasure of this shrine, the snake's skull was handed down as a treasure of this shrine, but it is said that this snake died instead of the lord during the war.
After that, Awanosu Shrine, which the people of Matsumoto Village have been protecting for a long time, was enshrined together with Amaterasu Ogami at Konan 5-chome in 1908 (1908) and disappeared. It is said that the villagers who spared it continued the shadow festival in September every year, but that was until the beginning of the Showa era.
How many people remember Awazu Shrine now? It's Awazu Myojin, who crossed the sea on purple clouds and appeared in the dream of the lord, so there may be an announcement that when it is forgotten with the times, it may be remembered soon. .
That said, Amaterasu Okami is home to seven shrines in Sasashita, Matsumoto and miscellaneous villages, and the festival is held every year on September 5th.
Adults and children can enjoy the late summer night, when congratulatory words are raised, Bon dances are danced, and night shops are out, and I would like to think about Awano-sama and the other six shrines.

This is a story recorded in "Hometown Konan's Old Story".
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