Ubagozen Shrine

Japanese: 姥御前神社 - うばごぜんじんじゃ
Ubagozen Shrine

…The Oyama family home in Iizuka (an important cultural property) is a typical chumon-zukuri style house built in the early 19th century. Uba Gozen Shrine in Ashizaki enshrines Ashinazuchi, and together with Mikurahana (a rocky mountain on the border between Kotogaoka-cho and Hachirogata-cho), which enshrines Temanazuchi, tells the legend of the formation of Lake Hachirogata. Long ago, a man named Hachiro stayed at the home of an elderly couple, and invited them to escape together because a large lake would appear at the time of the rooster crowing, but the old woman delayed, and when the rooster crowed, she nearly drowned. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Ubagomane Shrine" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…飯塚の大山家住宅(重要文化財)は19世紀初期の典型的な中門造である。 芦崎にある姥御前神社は脚摩乳(あしなずち)をまつり,手摩乳をまつる三倉鼻(琴丘町と八郎潟町の境にある岩山)とともに八郎潟の成立に関する伝説を伝える。昔,八郎という者が老夫婦の家に泊まり,鶏鳴の時刻に大湖が生じるからともに逃げようと誘うが姥はおくれをとり,鶏鳴の時がきて溺れそうになる。…

※「姥御前神社」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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