Legend of the Boxwood

Japanese: 柘枝伝説 - つみのえでんせつ

This is a tale of a divine marriage between Tsuge-senhime (Yamabime) and Umashine, a fisherman from Yoshino. The story goes that a branch of a hawk (a type of mountain mulberry) gets caught in Umashine's pier and transforms into a beautiful woman, who eventually lives with him and later ascends to heaven, but there is a lack of documentation that can provide the full story. The story is recorded as "Tsuge-den" in the left footnote of Volume 3 of the Manyoshu, and there are also related entries in the Kaifu-so and Shoku Nihon Kōki. It appears that it was originally a Chinese biography with a taste for immortals.

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Japanese:

柘枝仙媛(やまびめ)と吉野の漁師味稲(うましね)との神婚譚。ツミの枝（山桑の類）が味稲の梁(やな)にかかって，美女と化し，やがて彼と同棲し，後に昇天するという筋であったらしいが，全貌を知り得る資料に欠ける。《万葉集》巻３の左注に〈柘枝伝〉と記され，《懐風藻》《続日本後紀》にも関連の記載がある。本来は神仙趣味の漢文伝であったらしい。

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