Japanese Folk Tale

10 The Yanagita Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale
was taking care of him with the ame she bought each night for him to
eat. It is said that the child became a famous priest later.
Shimabara
This could be called a derived tale, one about births underground.
Fukushima, Date-gun, Hobara-machi: Shintatsu 61, "The ghost who had
a child" (Komochi yOrei). It is about a woman buried at Toko ji in
Katsurada-mura. It is in the form of a legend.
Iwaki-gun: Iwaki 2, 100, "How the ghost cared for her child"
(Yurei no kosodate).
Hyogo, Himeji: Nihon zenkoku 245, "The arne at Shinkoji" (Shinkoji no
ame).
Hikami-gun: TD X 4 70, "The ghost that cared for her child"
(Kosodate yurei).
Kinosaki-gun: MK II 8 32, "The ghost that cared for her child"
(Kosodate ylirei). It is a story about a temple named YOreizan
TsOgenji. (See Hyogo-ken minzoku shiryo, No. 17.)
Nagasaki: Shimabara 76, "The ghost that cared for her child" (Kosodate
yOrei). Example. (Old) Iki 88, "The woman who came to buy toasted
mochi" (Yakimochi kai ni detekuru onna).
Kagoshima, Kikaijima: Shima I 5 72, "A dead woman who gave birth to
a child" (Shinin ga ko 0 sanshita hanashi).
Koshikijima: Koshiki 109, "The ghost that cared for her child"
(Kosodate yOrei).
Further reference:
Inu chomon shu (in Toyo kohi daizen 629). The birth in the ground
is not handled as a folk tale but as a legend. Many take the form of
stories of destiny.
Zoku Minakata zuihitsu 291.
7. The Eagle's Foundling
An eagle carried off a baby that was left in a basket while his
mother was gathering mulberry leaves in the mountains. The child was
saved and became the head priest of a large temple, and his aged
mother met him after a long search.
Aomori, Hachinohe
Aomori, Hachinohe: MK II 2 31, "The child snatched away by an eagle"
(Washi ni sarawareta ko). Example. Perhaps it was formerly a
katarimomo.
Iwate, Kamihei-gun: Kikimimi 438, "Nagasuda Manko." This has an
ear lier part.
Niigata, Minamikanbara-gun: Kamuhara 126, Note No. 38. No title. The
spider zato is called Ryoben.
Nagasaki: Shimabara 169, 170, "The eagle's foundling" (Washi no soda-