8-3) Myths and legends of the white-faced golden-haired nine-tailed fox

Fox (きつね) has a good image in Japanese folk beliefs. Like people, there are good foxes and bad foxes among thousands of foxes. One of them has been notorious for hundreds of years, and it is a household name in Japan in recent years, and it is a white-faced golden-haired nine-tailed fox related to the stone that must be killed.

There is usually only one fox tail. The Japanese nine-tailed fox, like the dragon walker in China, is probably not seen so far, but there are many legends. This kind of nine-tailed fox, which is related to the killer stone, is said to have existed for a long time and caused havoc in China, Indian, Japanese and other Asian countries.

This magical Kyubi no Youko wants to be the devil who rules the world. So wherever he goes, he will destroy the old, the weak, women and children and confuse those in power. In ancient China, it became a trophy captured by the Shang Dynasty when it attacked the Su tribe in BC 1047 ~ the beauty's favorite: da ji, which ended the reign of the Shang Dynasty.

Later, this Kyubi no Youko went to Tuoguo, Ye Jie, Tianzhu (Indian), and became the son of King Sharon, a wasteland. After she became a prince, she played with her sister, that is, the notorious woman who ended the dynasty in legend: Mrs. Huayang. After a bitter quarrel with India, she ran back to China in 700 BC and became Zhou Youwang's favorite concubine: Zan, who sounded the death knell of the Zhou Dynasty.

After about 1400 years in Ji Shen, this Kyubi no Youko reappeared in the heyday of China in 750 BC, the last year of the reign of Li Longji, the Emperor Xuanzong who loved Yang Guifei. Only this time, it is not China that wants to make trouble, but the Japanese. When Emperor Wu Sheng of Japan sent Tang Shi Gibiino Asomi Makibi (きびのまきび, 695 ~ 775) back to Japan, Gibiino Yuko became the daughter of Sima Xiu Yuan: Ruozao landed in Japan by boat in Hakata and then disappeared.

After more than 360 years, she became a treasure picked up by samurai Sakamoto in the Heian period, and was named Tamano Mae (たまものまぇ). At the age of 18, she became a peerless beauty and was feathered by the emperor (1103 ~/kloc-

Long, long ago, when the Emperor Bird Feather gave Tamamo no Mae a high position, the world changed color that night, it rained wildly, and the candles were blown out by the cold wind. Tamamo no Mae was glowing all over, and the light was dozens of feet high. Because it was a moment, although mortals saw it, they were still in awe of its beauty. However, Abe Tae-sung, a well-known teacher of Yin and Yang in Kyoto who was far away from the palace, saw through and drove Kyubi no Youko out of Kyoto.

Tamamo no Mae escaped from Kyoto in a dark cloud, but he came to Nasuno, the border country, which is now Nasu area, including Nasu Town, Kuroha Town, Nasu Town, Daejeon Town, etc., and built a nest near Yapan Railway Station today, eating people and poisoning the world. At that time, the Duke of Nasuno had to keep Fujitsu's loyalty and ask the court for soldiers. The court sent the Duke of Miura Peninsula, みぅらのすけよしぁき (1092 ~1180).

San Pu Jie Yiming, a famous archer, specially invited an arrow to pay homage to Ranasa, Harraca, in order to exorcise demons. However, after seven days and seven days of hunting, a large number of people finally found Kyubi no Youko in today's fish and algae road in Kuroha-CHO and the trees in the shrine. However, at this time, Kyubi no Youko is no longer a fox, but a branch cicada. Thanks to the mirror pool in the shrine, San Pu Xie Yiming and others saw the fox in the mirror pool and caught up. Then Kyubi no Youko ran to the so-called Hell Valley, where he killed stones now.

San Pu Jie Yi Ming and others trotted straight up the mountain, but the fox disappeared and became dancing red beads. First, they ran to Zhen Xuan's horse and ran around. I really hit the red ball with an arrow, and the fox appeared and attacked people with fire. At this time, San Pu killed Kyubi no Youko with an arrow. After Kyubi no Youko fell in a pool of blood and died, his resentment stayed where the blood fell, and became a poisonous stone, which also gave birth to the place name of the killing stone. The court sent a lot of monks to cross the river to complain, but the monks died.

More than a hundred years have passed, and the nine-tailed fox has not disappeared. One day, Master Rilian (1222 ~ 1282), the founder of Rilian School, came to the mountainside about one and a half kilometers below Shashengshi. Today, after giving a lecture at Chuchu Temple in くぃぞめじ, he saw the boulder that the nine-tailed fox angrily sued Hokkekyo for enlightenment. He was holding a rosary in his hand. (see attached figure)

About a hundred years later, 1385, Shang Yuanweng (げんのぅぉしょぅ, 1326 ~ 1396) also came.

In Nasu, the resentment of killing stones ended, and the people's words also drew a perfect full stop. But interestingly, people's words of Kyubi no Youko's evil fox are still being created in Fukushima, such as Wakayama, Niigata, Aichi, Hiroshima, Okayama, Yamaguchi and Oita. It is said that after Yuan Weng and the monk hit the stone, the rubble flew to all counties, which spread the resentment of the nine-tailed fox. Later generations built Buddhist temples and shrines to appease their souls.

Caocao wrote a brief introduction to Tamamo no Mae, a white-faced golden-haired nine-tailed fox. Some people think that beauty is really unlucky, and in this story, it is called the nine-tailed fox demon. But many years ago, many people began to intercede for these named beauties in the history of China, and arguments such as men's incompetence and blaming beautiful women's misfortune came out, and many people rewritten historical novels. I won't elaborate on this point of view.

According to some studies, before the Muromachi era, in the vernacular, the nine-tailed fox sometimes turned into a beauty and sometimes into a beast, which was not evil. In the Muromachi era, after the appearance of stone-killing ballads, the image gradually deteriorated. In the Edo period of17th century, the story of Tamamo no Mae's killing stone was published. 1804, after the popularity of the picture book The Story of the Three Kingdoms and The Evil Fox (Witch) written by Takai Lanshan, the nine-tailed fox became deeply rooted in evil, and many kabuki creations were exposed, constantly copying stories.

It is generally believed that Kyubi no Youko's evil theory of Japanese foxes was influenced by sinicization, which continued China's "list of gods", described da ji as a nine-tailed fox demon and continued to fabricate stories. The relationship between the nine-tailed fox and the killing stone and religious figures is because Buddhism was introduced to Japan in the twelfth century for missionary purposes, and it was touched by folk dialects.

Although the story of the Nine-tailed Fox and the Sesshengshi is very mythical, it is really related to the Sesshengshi in history, which can be traced back to Matsuo Bashō. But the story of the nine-tailed fox and the killing stone involves too much cultural creation. 1953 the county government designated the killing stone as a cultural treasure, and 1957 as a historical relic. This bioclastic stone, which is designate as a historical site, is located in that crack of gravel on the slope, and it is forbidden to enter by fencing. Broadly speaking, bioclastic rocks include a wide range of gravel areas, such as Jiaochuan basement, Premise basement and Tang Hua collection area.

Although the story of the Japanese nine-tailed fox was influenced by the list of gods, it was still somewhat different from that of China. At least, next to the Chu Jiu Temple in Nasu Plateau, there is a Kyubi no Youko Daohe Shrine (see the picture below) dedicated to this white-faced golden-haired nine-tailed fox that turned evil into Buddha.