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山口、飯豊、附馬牛の字荒川東禅寺および火渡、青笹の字中沢ならびに土淵村の字土淵に、ともにダンノハナという地名あり。その近傍にこれと相対して必ず蓮台野という地あり。昔は六十を超えたる老人はすべてこの蓮台野へ追い遣るの習ありき。老人はいたずらに死んで了うこともならぬ故に、日中は里へ下り農作して口を糊したり。そのために今も山口土淵辺にては朝に野らに出づるをハカダチといい、夕方野らより帰ることをハカアガリというといえり。 ○ダンノハナは壇の塙なるべし。すなわち丘の上にて塚を築きたる場所ならん。境の神を祭るための塚なりと信ず。蓮台野もこの類なるべきこと『石神問答』中にいえり。

Yamaguchi, Iide, Arakawa Tozenji and Hiwatari in Tsukimoushi, Nakazawa in Aozasa, and Tsuchibuchi in Tsuchibuchi village: each of these places has a spot called Dan-no-hana. And near each, always facing it, is a place called Rendaino.

In the old days, it was the custom that all old people past sixty were sent away to Rendaino. But the old people could not simply wait to die, so by day they went down to the village to work in the fields and earn their food.

That is why even now, around Yamaguchi and Tsuchibuchi, they say, going out to the fields in the morning is called "hakadachi," leaving the grave, and coming home from the fields in the evening "hakaagari," going up to the grave.

* Dan-no-hana is probably "dan no hanawa," a place where a mound was raised on a hill. I believe these are mounds for the gods of boundaries. That Rendaino is of the same kind I argued in Ishigami Mondo.

* Rendaino is now known by the name Dendera-no.

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Rendaino (Dendera-no) · 111: the field where old people past sixty were sent. By day they went down to the village to help in the fields.
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