All Rights Reserved.Statements on this practice can be found in detail in works like The Pillow Book and The Diary of Lady Murasaki.
In the latter one, there is the statement, those with neither voice nor shape are (wrathful gods). Those who cannot have shape or voice, and also cannot be without shape or voice, are, and thus the of China at that time were considered a type of ykai that cannot be seen or heard, and were thought to be natural phenomena that people did not understand with the knowledge of those times. It was the work of a, and there are also statements about mononoke in the articles in the 8th month Jinshin of the same year, and of year 10 in the 5th month. In the old language of those times, the word mono was used to refer to oni, spirits, or Ara-mitama among other things, 1 8 or things that were not felt to be clearly real, 9 and in the Taih Code, epidemic diseases were written about as toki no ke (), using the word ke to refer to diseases, and so it is seen that a mono no ke (a ke of a mono) was used to refer to diseases caused by these mono. The Pillow Book as well, there are names for diseases such as mune no ke (ke of the chest), ashi no ke (ke of the feet), and mono no ke (ke of mono). In the Shoku Nihongi, there is a statement about Fujiwara no Hirotsugu s vengeful spirit (onry). However, this kind of thought still wasnt very influential at that time, and even Emperor Saga stated in a caution, in this society, some would attribute any and all mononoke to a spirits curse. These are very baseless assertions, 10 thus strongly denying the relation between mononoke and vengeful spirits. Just at that time, after Sugawara no Michizane died in Engi 3 (903), the deaths one after another that followed of members of the imperial and noble families, as well as the spread of epidemic diseases, were feared as the work of a curse of Michizane, and thus the belief that mononoke were caused by vengeful spirits curses grew even stronger. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
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