kamadogami　竃神

KEY WORD :　architecture / folk dwellings

Also kamagami 釜神. The tutelary deity of the hearth or cooking range *kamado 竃, and by extension of the kitchen. Found in parts of Touhoku 東北, especially Miyagi, Iwate, and Fukushima prefectureｓ. A mask of his features made of wood or occasionally of clay, was often affixed to a beam *hari 梁, or to the freestanding post *dokuritsubashira 独立柱, closest to the kamado at the rear of the earthfloored area *doma 土間, in farmhouses in Miyagi prefecture. Also called *kamaotoko 釜男 (cauldron male).

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*kama-no-kami 釜の神, *Koujin 荒神

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