Editing Nue (section)

==The Nue's remains==
There are several accounts of what was done to the nue's corpse. According to some legends, like the ''Heike Monogatari'', as the people in Kyoto were fearful of the curse of the nue, they put its corpse in a boat and floated it down the [[Kamo River]]. After the boat floated down the [[Yodo River]] and temporarily drifted upon the shore of [[Higashinari County, Osaka|Higashinari County]], [[Osaka]], it then floated into the sea and washed up on the shore between [[Ashiya River]] and [[Sumiyoshi River]]. It is said that the people in Ashiya courteously gave the corpse a burial service, and built a commemorating mound over its tomb, the ''Nuezuka''.<ref name="koube"/>  The ''Settsu Meisho Zue'' states that "the Nuezuka is between Ashiya River and Sumiyoshi River."<ref name="koube"/>

According to the ''Ashiwake bune'', a geography book from the [[Edo period]], a nue drifted down and washed ashore on the Yodo River, and when the villagers, fearful of a curse, notified the head priest of Boon-ji about it, it was courteously mourned over, buried, and had a mound built for it.<ref name="murakami"/><ref name="osakacity">{{Cite web|title=大阪市市政 大阪港紋章について|date=2009-03-16|publisher=大阪市役所|url=https://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/port/page/0000016593.html|access-date=2009-11-11}}</ref> It is further said that as the mound was torn down at the beginning of the [[Meiji period]], the vengeful spirit of the nue started tormenting the people who lived nearby, and so the mound was hastily rebuilt.<ref name="tada"/>

According to the ''Genpei Seisuiki'' and the ''Kandenjihitsu'' the nue was said to be buried at the [[Kiyomizu-dera]] in Kyoto Prefecture, and it is said that a curse resulted from digging it up in the Edo period.<ref name="murakami"/>

Another legend relates the spirit of the dead nue turning into a horse, which was raised by Yorimasa and named Kinoshita. As this horse was a good horse, it was stolen by [[Taira no Munemori]], so Yorimasa raised an army against the Taira family. As this resulted in Yorimasa's ruin, it is said that the nue had taken its revenge in this way.<ref name="murakami"/>

Another legend says that the nue's corpse fell in the western part of [[Lake Hamana]] in [[Shizuoka Prefecture]], and the legend of the names of places in [[Mikkabi, Shizuoka|Mikkabi]] of [[Hamana-ku, Hamamatsu|Hamana-ku]], [[Hamamatsu]], such as Nueshiro, Dozaki ("torso"-zaki), Hanehira ("wing"-hira), and Ona ("tail"-na) come from the legend that the nue's head, torso, wings, and tail respectively fell in those locations.<ref>{{Cite book|author=村上健司|title=日本妖怪散歩|year=2008|publisher=角川書店|series=角川文庫|isbn= 978-4-04-391001-4|pages= 182–183頁}}</ref>

In [[Kumakōgen, Ehime|Kumakōgen]], [[Kamiukena District, Ehime|Kamiukena District]], [[Ehime Prefecture]], there is the legend that the true identity of the nue is Yorimasa's mother. In the past, in the era when the Taira clan was at its peak, Yorimasa's mother lived in hiding in this place that was her home land, and at a pond called Azoga-ike within a mountains region, she prayed to the guardian dragon of the pond for her son's good fortune in battle and the revival of the Genji (Minamoto clan), and thus the mother's body turned into that of a nue due to this prayer and hatred against the Taira family, and then she flew towards Kyoto. The nue, who represented the mother, upon making the emperor ill, thus had her own son, Yorimasa, accomplish something triumphant by being slayed by him. The nue that was pierced by Yorimasa's arrow then came back to [[Azoga-ike]] and became the guardian of the pond, but lost her life due to wounds from the arrow.<ref name="sanpo">{{Cite book|title= 日本妖怪散歩}}</ref>{{rp|page=337}}