The legend of Wraith in Tokyo

I found a oddy news today from Reuters. A college in India had to close their class because of a Ghost. Hmm. Actually it would be hard to study or concentrate in such place!

Do you know the legend of the wraith in Tokyo? The finance department of Japan or some big companies are concerned about this and even the U.S. shares a little part of the story too. It is the story about "Taira no Masakado". Here is the full coverage in English.

Taira no Masakado, a descendant of the emperor Kammu was a rebel leader in the Kanto area. He was
decapitated and his head brought to Kyoto. One day his head flew back from Kyoto to Kanto. The place where the head fell is called Kubizuka (meaning tomb of a head). People built a small shrine to appease the angry wraith of Masakado. But many odd and scary accidents and incidents took place there, especially when someone tried to move the Kubizuka. One example after WWII, when the GHQ (General Headquarters of the USA) tried to do it, the driver of the bulldozer died without apparent cause :-(. These stories were written as public documents.

There is something, some power that people believe in; here is a movie "Teito Monogatari" written by Hiroshi Aramata. The story is about an insurgent army raising up the spirit of angry Masakado to use it to break down the government.

In the center of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Otemachi Tokyo, It is still there . Companies around them belong to the Association to Preserve it. This sounds a little bit strange, but Tokyo people consider the wraith of Masakado as a sort of guardian spirit (or possibly spirit of destruction) of Tokyo.

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People built a small shrine to appease the angry wraith of Masakado

[Cynthia Wanjiku]

To Whom it may concern:

Hello my name is Cynthia. I am creating a web site on the Japanese Samurai for a Nation competion Trio Think Quest, in a summer program Upward Bound at the University of Washington. My Teams’ purpose for creating this website is to inform our audience about the cultural background and influences of the Japanese Samurai. My Part is to Research the history and origin of the Samurai. I came across your website on the picture of Taira Masakado, and my team would greatly appreciate it if you gave us the permission to use the image in the link above.

Please reply as soon as possible because the due date for my project is July 25, 2008 Thank you for your time, Cynthia