火車 · Miyazaki · 1992
Bodies taken by the kasha during funerals
What the record says
Stories of a body being carried off by the kasha in the middle of a funeral are told in several places in Miyazaki.
Our summary in English of the record as catalogued; the original card is in Japanese.
In our articles
Kasha
火車（かしゃ）
Kasha began as the Buddhist fire cart that came for sinners at the hour of death. By the late sixteenth century it was a thing in the thunderstorm that stole the dead from funerals, and only from about the late seventeenth century was it said to be a cat.