Japanese legends, Davis retelling
Laughing Festival at Wasa
Davis describes a festival procession at Wasa in which the leader’s performance prompts a peal of laughter from the participants. The explanation connects the laughter with a deity who mistook the day of the gods’ gathering and arrived too late.
Also known as Wasa’s Laughter Festival
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In the sources
Account in the source
DocumentedDavis describes a festival procession at Wasa in which the leader’s performance prompts a peal of laughter from the participants.
Further detail
TraditionalThe explanation connects the laughter with a deity who mistook the day of the gods’ gathering and arrived too late.
Context & interpretation
The procession is documented as Davis describes it; its divine explanation is traditional. The entry does not establish the current form or date of the observance. The source’s treatment of a deity’s deafness is not adopted as a judgement about disability, and both citations occupy one page.
Original passages
Source 1
Myths and Legends of Japan
a merry peal of laughterOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Davis, Myths & Legends of Japan, active reader leaf 247
Checked against the active prepared edition; reader leaf and original-page mapping verified, spacing normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0052-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0052-E001-P0247
- Original scan leaf
- 273
- Recorded leaf number
- 273
- Current Reader position
- 246
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
Source 2
Myths and Legends of Japan
he had mistaken the great day when the Gods met togetherOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Davis, Myths & Legends of Japan, active reader leaf 247
Checked against the active prepared edition; reader leaf and original-page mapping verified, spacing normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0052-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0052-E001-P0247
- Original scan leaf
- 273
- Recorded leaf number
- 273
- Current Reader position
- 246
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
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