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Daidarabotchi
Also known as: Deidarabotchi, Derabotchi, Daidarabō, Daidarabocchi, Daidara-hōshi (大太法師)
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Japanese landscape giant: Fuji is his spoil heap, Lake Biwa the hole it came from.
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Mount Fuji is the soil he dug out of one province. Lake Biwa is the hole he left in another.
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Sources
- Hitachi no Kuni Fudoki, 8th century
- Kunio Yanagita, "The Footprints of Daidarabou", Chūō Kōron, 1927, the first systematic collection of the scattered footprint legends