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Your submission at Articles for creation
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Your article submission Little Apple Dolls


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Hitobashira
Hitobashira ( 人柱 human pillar ), practiced formerly in Japan, is a human sacrifice, buried alive under or near large-scale buildings like dams, bridges, and castles, as a prayer to the gods so that the building is not destroyed by natural disasters such as floods or by enemy attacks.

It began with human sacrifices during the construction of the Kofun (aristocratic tombs), and it has been tradition in various parts of Japan. Currently, hitobashira is not practiced in construction, hitobashira also refers to workers who were buried alive under inhumane conditions.

Maruoka one of the oldest castles in Japan is rumored to have been constructed on a human pillar and can be found in the legend of "O-shizu, Hitobashira (human pillar)".

When Shibata Katsutoyo, the nephew of Shibata Katsuie, was building a castle in Maruoka, the stone wall of the castle keep collapsing no matter how many times it was piled up. There was one vassal who suggested that they should make someone a human sacrifice called Hitobashira in Japanese. O-shizu, a one-eyed woman who had two children and lived a poor life, was selected as the Hitobashira. She resolved to become one on the condition that one of her children be made a samurai. She was buried under the central pillar of the castle keep. Soon after that the construction of the castle keep was successfully completed. But Katsutoyo was transferred to another province, and her son was not made a samurai. Her spirit felt resentful, and made the moat overflow with spring rain when the season cutting algae came in April every year. People called the rain, the rain caused by the tears of O-shizu's sorrow, and erected a small tomb to soothe her spirit.

There was a poem handed down. "The rain which falls when the season of cutting algae comes Is the rain reminiscent of the tears of the poor O-shizu's sorrow"

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