Kurika Ochi is a name found in western Japan, such as Osaka, Hyogo, and Kagawa prefectures. It is a rare name with only about 70 people in the country. Chestnut flowers are a seasonal word from May to June. Chestnut flowers bloom and fall around June, which coincides with the beginning of the rainy season, hence the name.
Also, in what is now Harano, Yamada-cho, Kita-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, there is a well called ``Kurihana Ochi no I,'' which has a legend of tragic love.
Yamadazaemonnojo Makatsu, who served the 47th Emperor Junnin, had feelings for Princess Shirataki, the princess of the Minister of the Left at the time. She was a princess who sent songs and was not tangled, but Emperor Junnin, who felt pity for her, intervened and made Masakatsu and Princess Shirataki a couple. Makatsu took the princess back to her hometown, but after giving birth, the princess died.
A shrine was built in the mansion to mourn Princess Shirataki. It seems that water started to spring up right next to it. It is said that during the rainy season when Princess Shirataki died, Masakatsu changed his name to Kurika Ochi because water began to gush out.
Chestnut flower drop = Tsuyuri
``Kurihana Ochi'' is a surname pronounced as tsuyuri. It was originally called Tsuyuri. Nowadays, her surname is pronounced Tsuyuri or Tsuyu.
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