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Japan’s ‘killing stone’ splits in two, releasing superstitions amid the sulphur springs
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Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Mon 7 Mar 2022 05.59 GMT
Legend has it there is an evil spirit trapped in the Sessho-seki stone, so what happens now that the stone is broken?
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Tamamo-no-mae is confronted by a warrior as she turned into an evil fox with nine tails in this woodblock art by Yashima Gakutei. The ‘killing stone’ said to contain her body in Japan has split.
Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. H. O. Havemeyer Collection
Predictions of dark forces being unleashed by an evil vixen hung over social media in
Japan on Monday after a famous volcanic rock said to kill anyone who comes into contact with it was found split in two.
According to the
mythology surrounding the
Sessho-seki, or killing stone, the object contains the transformed corpse of Tamamo-no-Mae, a beautiful woman who had been part of a secret plot hatched by a feudal warlord to kill Emperor Toba, who reigned from 1107-1123.
Legend has it that her true identity was an evil nine-tailed fox whose spirit is embedded in the hunk of lava, located in an area of Tochigi prefecture, near Tokyo, famous for its sulphurous hot springs.
Its separation into two roughly equal parts, believed to have occurred within the past few days, has spooked online users who noted that, according to folklore, the stone continually spews poisonous gas – hence its name.
While the stone was said to have been destroyed, and its spirit exorcised by a Buddhist monk who scattered its pieces across
Japan, many Japanese prefer to believe that its home is on the slopes of Mount Nasu.
Visitors to the area, a popular sightseeing spot, recoiled in horror at the weekend after witnesses posted photos of the fractured stone, a length of rope that had been secured around its circumference lying on the ground.
“I feel like I’ve seen something that shouldn’t be seen,” one Twitter user
said in a post that has attracted almost 170,000 likes.
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While others speculated that the demon spirit of Tamamo-no-Mae had been resurrected after almost 1,000 years, local media said cracks had appeared in the rock several years ago, possibly allowing rainwater to seep inside and weaken its structure.
The stone, which was registered as a local historical site in 1957, was mentioned in Matsuo Basho’s seminal work The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and has inspired a Noh play, a novel and an anime film.
Masaharu Sugawara, the head of a local volunteer guide group, told the Yomiuri Shimbun it was a “shame” the stone had split because it was a symbol of the area, but agreed that nature had simply taken its course.
Local and national government officials will meet to discuss the stone’s fate, according to the Shimotsuke Shimbun. The newspaper quoted a Nasu tourism official as saying he would like to see the
Sessho-seki restored to its original form – presumably with its demonic inhabitant sealed within.
for more info
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessho-seki
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_spirit
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...Sooooooo.....
an evil nine-tailed Kitsune = Fox Spirit that was on mission to kill then Emperor,
was trapped in a rock and to ensure she never releases out of that further locked using Totems (totke chhap things) etc etc,
gets "released" in March of this month AFTER ABOUT NINE HUNDRED TO THOUSAND SOME OF YEARS hhmm...splitting the rock in two, totems also torn down...happened in 4th or 5th March of this year 2022...
aanndd after exact four months of this happening
we are seeing assassination of Shinzo Abe...kinda like a very near person to current Emperor and of course former supreme power holder there...
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