Banji Banzaburou

Japanese: 磐司磐三郎 - ばんじ・ばんざぶろう
Banji Banzaburou
A legendary figure who is said to be the ancestor of Japanese hunters. There is an old legend about two hunters, Iwashi and Iwasaburo, and they are also expressed as Manji (Osamu) and Manzaburo, Oma and Koma, and Oonami and Koonami. The two are in conflict and fight with each other, but they share a common motif in which one of them receives the protection of the mountain god by helping it, while the other does not help it and is unable to receive the bounty of the mountain. Hunters, typical of mountain people, used to wander the mountains all over the country, and the legend of Iwashi Iwasaburo is distributed throughout the country. There are also legends that Iwashi Iwasaburo is a single hunter. A typical example is the hunter Iwasaburo who helped Nikko Gongen and shot Akagi Myojin with an arrow. He later became the founder of the Matagi.

(Miyata Noboru)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:
日本の狩猟民の先祖といわれている伝説の人物。磐司と磐三郎という,ふたりの猟師とする伝承が古いとされており,万次(治)と万三郎,大摩と小摩,大汝 と小汝の表現もある。ふたりは対立し相争うが,一方が山の神を援助することにより,山の神の加護を受けるのに対し,他方は,山の神を助けなかったために,山の幸を受けられなくなるというモチーフが共通している。山民の典型である狩猟民たちは,かつては全国の山中を漂泊していたらしく,磐司磐三郎伝説は,全国に分布している。磐司磐三郎はひとりの狩人とする伝説もある。その代表的事例は,日光権現を助けて赤城明神を矢で射た猟師磐三郎である。彼はのちにマタギの開祖となっている。

(宮田登)

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