Udekari

This article is about a fictional location.

Although this story is set in Mie Prefecture, the towns and villages are not associated with any real-world location.

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Udekari
Location marked in blue.
Japanese	腕刈
Rōmaji	Udekari
Information
Type	Town
Located in	Mie Prefecture
Inhabitants	Yamagishi Asako Asako's Grandmother
Debut	Chapter 17

Udekari (腕 (うで) 刈 (かり) , Udekari^?) is a town in The Summer Hikaru Died.

History

Udekari once belonged to a single, much larger domain. This domain may have been formed during or before the Keichō era, as 12 years following this era it was renamed to "the XX Domain Territory". Toward the end of the Edo period (1700s), this territory was split into the towns of Kubitachi, Udekari, Udeiri, Ashidori, and Darumasute. Although other towns experienced changes, such as merging and renaming sometime after the early Meiji period (late 1800s), Udekari has remained the same since the 1700s split.

At an unspecified location in Udekari, a large amount of ancient human bones were found. They were only bones belonging to the arms, similar to the discovery of torso bones in Darumazuka Tunnel, Kibogayama and leg bones in Ashizukadou, Ashidori.

Geography

A main road connects Udekari to Kibogayama.

Neighboring Municipalities

• Ashidori
• Kibogayama
• Kubitachi

Notable Locations

• The house containing the hole.
• The room containing the hole.
• The Udekari hole.
• Asako hears mutterings from the impurities inside the room.

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The Hole

Somewhere in Udekari, there is a run-down building overgrown by wildlife. Inside the house is a hole connected to The Other Side. It appears to be a black slit-like opening surrounded by human arms, growing from the floorboards and reaching up along one another to form a conical shape. It is kept behind a sliding door sealed with protective talismans, as well as a note to "Go ahead and open it. I don't need it anymore." "It" does not appear to refer to the hole itself, but rather a particular impurity contained in the same room as the hole.

Etymology

• The kanji in the town's name are "arm" (腕 ude) and "to cut" (刈 kari).