| Furthermore, a peach tree was planted in the direction of the kimon or a monkey statue consecrated there as Kimon-sake (to guard against the kimon), since the opposite direction of the kimon is the Monkey (in Japanese 'saru' which is a homonym for the Japanese word 'expel'). |
また、人々は家の鬼門の方角にモモの木を植えたり、鬼門とは反対の方角が申であることから、サルの像を鬼門避けとして祀ったりした。 |