In the history of Japan, there are very few things about cats, including documents, about 2500 years ago in Japan, in the Yayoi period, when people lived on rice cultivation and had abundant crops, but because there were rats eating crops, people used cats to catch mice, and in archaeology, a lot of cat bones were dug up, but at this time it was a wild cat and not a domestic cat. What about the cats that were there in Japan? It is said that after Buddhism spread to Japan, during the Yamato period in Japan in 538, the Emperor of Japan sent tang envoys to enter China by boat from the former Korea (Baekje) and learn medicine, Buddhism, and sericulture techniques in the Tang Dynasty. When they returned to Japan, many cats were put into the cabin for fear that the ship that sent the Tang envoys would be bitten by rats or steal food. In the diary of Emperor Utah in the Heian period (February 889), it is described that the official prime minister offered a cat that has always been black, and this cat is very famous, and it is found in all many mythological stories, including pillow grass, Genji Monogatari, and Gengko diary, all of which have stories about cats.
In 1400 years, the cat from China to Japan was called the Tang cat, is the favorite of the Japanese aristocratic monarchy, the family can have a representative of power and money have the status of the nobility, according to the "Futile Grass" record of the era of people from China imported goods, pottery, silk, medicines from China to Kana Harbor, there are many cats on the ship to catch mice, most of them are short-tailed cats, and there are three tortoiseshell-colored cats, one of which is called Naika, the Japanese "Cat Again" is said to be a nine-life cat demon, The tail is large and long and two tails that are forked from each other, the color is black, yellow and white, can transform the appearance of an old woman or a charming woman to seduce humans, catch people and eat people, and at the same time, fujiwara's "Bright Moon Chronicle" described "Cat Again" has cat eyes, as large as a dog, and later this cat was subdued by samurai, and the cat that came to Japan later had no tail.
A record of cats again
Legend has it about the cat, in Japan people believe that the cat will become a cat when it is old, when the cat lives to the age of 9, it will grow a second tail, if it is not killed, after the age of nine, the cat will become a human form, after a long time to get spiritual power, become a beautiful man or beauty to absorb the essence of human beings.
Samurai War Cat again
After hundreds of years of shogunate, the shogunate has a courtier with a good chess count, playing chess won the city lord, the city lord was furious and killed the family minister, when the family minister's mother learned that her son was killed, she committed suicide in anger, and before she died, she said to the cat in the family ,"Xiaomei went to avenge your master", so the cat transformed into the city lord's concubine, killing people everywhere in the city, this matter caused everyone to endanger themselves, so the elder sent a personal bodyguard samurai, at any time around the city lord, one day the samurai found the city lord's concubine, entered the city lord's bedroom, and took out the blade, Struggling to stab at the city lord, the samurai blocked the concubine's attack, and seeing the deeds revealed, the concubine immediately transformed back into the appearance of a cat! Then, wanting to escape quickly, the samurai called for other companions to come and work together to repel the cat demon, after which the shogunate forbade all cats with tails, and ordinary people would cut off their tails because cats would turn into cats.