Sanzu River

It is believed that a toll of six mon must be paid before a soul can cross the river, a belief reflected in Japanese funerals when the necessary fee is placed in the casket with the dead.

[3] The Sanzu River is popularly believed to be in Mount Osore, a suitably desolate and remote part of Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan.

Similarly to the Sanzu-no-Kawa, there is also the Sai no Kawara (賽の河原, "River-plain of the Dead"), a boundary by which the souls of children who died too early cross over to the realm of the Dead, with the help of Jizō-bosatsu (Bohdisattva Jizō) who helps the souls of children who died too early to avoid the attentions of the Oni.

In the Sai-no-kawara, it is said that there is Datsueba (alias Shozuka-no-Baba) who is an old woman, stripping clothes of the dead.

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