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A tragic love legend of O-Sayo(name of a beautiful woman)

In old days, there was a farmhouse of JIROSUKEiname of a man) in Noto country(Ishikawa Prefecture). Jirosuke had one daughter.The house was very poor. It was sold to an owner of a brothel nearby as a harlot

Afterwards she drifted to Yoshiwara of the Edo era and suffered as a favorite. Because she excelled in art in feeling in justice thick firmly, she was praised to the skies as high-class prostitute Sayo of 1000RYO(old Japanese maney) at first sight.

As they are same town, a sailor of JUZO love Sayo. Sayo is also love JUZO. A certain, he came back to Wajima(his home town) , and did not accompany her. Sayo who thought questioningly went to the Wajima. There were other women already.

She came back to TURUGIJI (this is place of the beach)of a hometown by a heart to do the love and hatred half. Sayo threw the body in the sea and quitted own life. A grudge stepped on a sandy beach.

The beach came to make a sound that it resembled crying when we walked on the top of sand. As dialect of this district , GOMEKU mean wail(cry) . Then this beach call GOMEKI-beach. The villagers came to call this beach "the crying beach".

Villagers built small shrine in Wataze that could look around the sword place shore at first sight that dear and cheered up a soul of Sayo. When started high wind in that a boat with a white sail looked like the offing and let you lose with bottom of the depression each time.

The villager moved it on the mountain which the sea cannot see that it did not come true in it which a departed soul of Sayo pinned a ship on. It is a raven-black hair shrine left in now (I can see only a torii in a figure.)

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