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OCR: Lowland rice-paddy type buraku or village, after J.F.Embree, Suye Mura: a Japanese village IL2 - Area of rice paddies Buraku and Oade doh - a small wooden structure, usually tile roofed, housing a Buddhist deity. Used two or three times a year for village celebrations in honour of the particular deity but most of the time used as a play area by the village children, and at night as a meeting place for the young men of the village. Any stranger, such as a wandering pilgrim or beggar, or a peddlar or footwear mender, can find shelter under the firendly protection of the Buddhist Jizo or Kwannon who resides here. Sarutahiko stone - protection stones, placed especially at crossroads, which are dangerous as places where ambushes are commonly laid. Sarutahiko is a Shinto god of roadways. Ujigami - patron god of the village, usually housed in a small shrine building, tended by a part-time Shinto priest, offen a prosperous local farmer. To Sayworry ferryman's shellet Oade doh Ferry used in summer when wooden bridge washed out/ 1/2 RIVER ـلد Temporary 14 Wooden twig bridge robyn arne melding an Ancient murder KUMA 14 Tofu maker 14 14 11 Ujigami of Takata family (Adjacent house plots) 14 Buraku dol Gimves 1/1 11 14 Girves de c.100m