THE GREAT FIRE OF THE PURPLE ROBE
250 Years ago inTokio.
Wine Seller’s family went to the temple.
The daugther saw a handsome samurai in a purple robe. She fell in love and never saw him again.
She ordered a bright purple robe, so maybe the samurái could notice her. But she never saw him again, she felt ill and died.

Family took the robe to the temple for sell it. A Young woman bought it but also felt ill and died. She said that the face of a handsome samurai was hunting her.

The priest sold it again, the same happenend three times.

The priest decided to burn the robe as he thought it had bad spirits.
While burning, bright characters of the girl’s pray to buddha. “Please let me win his love” jumped to the roof of the temple. It because bigger and bunt the whole city.




THE TRAVELLING PRIEST AND THE DEAD BODY
Buddhist muso kokushi.
Once walking, he got lost and found and old priest in a hut. He said “no more room here” but go to next village.
Muso found the village. He was received in the headman’s house with food and a bed.

Midnight he was woken up by the oldest son. The headman had died and now they had to go to next village. Leaving the dead body in the house.

The son said :”you’re welcome to go with us a weird things happen in a house with dead bodies”, but as you’re a priest, perhaps you want to stay to say prayers for that.
Muso stayed saying prayers.

Then, a big shadow shape came in to the room and ate the dead body and all food around it, then left.

Villagers came back. Muso teld the story of big shape and they were not suprised.



Muso asked about the old priest in the hut. The villages said there was no priest at all!.
When muso left village, he went to the hut and found the old priest.
The old priest said:”I’m sorry you saw me last night eating the dead body”.
His temple history is:
Long time ago people use to bring him their dead relatives to say prayers for them. But he was a bad priest, he only thought of the food and clothes he got for doing so.

After he died, he was punished in a new life as a big shape that ate the dead.
Old priest asked muso for prayers and then slowly disappeared.

END

SUMMARY OF THE JAPANESE GHOST STORIES

STORY 1:
THE BLIND MUSICIAN


More that 700 years ago there was a fight called Dano-Ura , between two peoples ( the heike and the genji). All the heike died and their ghosts pulled them the ships under the water. They built a garden for the dead (amidaji). At the time there lived a blind man, called Hoichi. He was famous for played the biwa. Then he found a good friend at the amidaji temple, he was the Priest of the temple; he liked poems and music. The Priest invited Hoichi to live in the temple, Hoichi accepted.
One night, Hoichi was alone in the temple, midnight passed and the priest didn´t return; suddenly a samurai called hoichi and they went to the lord house and arrived to a great room , the lord requested hoichi perfom the history of the heike and then the music. All people were surprised for the great Hoichi´s skill.
The samurai took him home. The Priest return late, the next morning the Priest called Hoichi and question to him where did he go? and he answer:”i had some private bussines”.
Hoichi left the temple after dark again.The assistants found him in the garden of the dead, he was telling the story of dano-ura to the ghosts of the garden; the assistants took him to back to the temple.
The Priest and his assistants pray over Hoichi´s body and then they left.
Hoichi was alone, heard voices of spirits, they saw only his ears and cut them because his ears were the only part of his body that it wasn´t painted; this story made him famous and rich. In this coast you can find strange fish with heike faces in their backs.

STORY 2
THE FORTUNE TELLER’S STORY



This is the story of a young man that was samurái and he suddenly had no work. He learned to be a fortune teller and to read the I-ching.
He had a favourite story:
“This story is from a chinese fortune teller called Shoko Setsu, he used the I-ching too; he lived in a the Little house in the mountains, he had not paper and wrote his thoughts on the wall of his room. One hot summers day he was sleeping when something ran across his face, he took his cup and threw it at the animal, but it escaped and the cup was broken.Shoko Setsu looked the pieces again and found the name of the maker. He went to neighbouring town, and found the maker but he not wrote in the cup, “An old man wrote in the cup” said.
Shoko Setsu asked for the old man and the maker said “ The old man lives near here” Shoko Setsu arrived at the house and in a room he found six young men studying; they told him that the old man was dead, but they were waiting for him; the young men gave him a book of the old man.
Shoko Setsu read the book asked it about own future, and the book sent him to found in corner in the hut a pot of gold
Our old japanese fortune teller was not lucky than Shoko Setsu; the old japanese fortune teller he lost in the mountains in winter and died frozent.
People remember the old japanese saying: “the fortune teller can´t see his own future”.



JUAN ROZO 801


Theses Stories show the manners of the japanese people, I liked the people’skill for perform and play music.

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