Three-tailed isopathy
If Ichio Moriburu was born on the Japanese archipelago and Tsutomu is from the mainland on the west coast, then Mitsuo Isofu is an "imported" monster that rages on the sea. Isofu's prototype is Isosuka, originally a legendary fish monster living in the western Japanese coast of Hizen Matsuura, and the strange collection "Picture Book Hundred Things" co-author Momo garden Michikazumi and the painter Takehara Haruzumi Sai has a rather specific description of it, and the image of its picture book is similar to that of sharks; and Japanese yokai researcher Katsumi Tada believes that The Dragon Scroll is the "giant crocodile" contained in the ancient Japanese book "Materia Medica", but both sharks and crocodiles are related to "Naruto" The three-tailed image, which is similar to that of a sea turtle, is very different.
"Hyakuto" is a genre of the Popular Hyakugoku Quirky Tale of the Edo Period, in which the name of each story is the name of the yokai, accompanied by a portrait of a yokai as an illustration, and is a work that combines a collection of strange talks and a collection of paintings. In the Edo period, there was also a custom called "Strange TalkIng", which took the form of Rakugo: light a hundred candles, and after saying one strange talk, blow out a candle, until a hundred strange talks have been completed and all the candles are blown out, the monster will appear. The term "Hundred Tales" was later used to name collections of stories, but at first it was synonymous with strange literature, such as Yanbao Five Years (1677) "Hundred Tales of the Kingdoms", Baoyong Iii (1706) "Goga Hundred Tales", and Xiangbao Seventeenth Year (1732) "Taiping Hundred Tales" and other well-known strange works, "Picture Book Hundred Things" is no exception, and Ishihitsu Toriyama's "Drawing Hundred Ghosts Night Walk" is also a classic map of Japanese monsters - and among the monsters included in the latter are tanuki and cats. It is the prototype of Ichio and Nio in Naruto.
Illustration of The Hundred Tales
Perhaps because he lives in the sea, he is much less famous than Shouzuru and Yujifu. The Yokai Chronicle, edited by Kenji Murakami, describes his habits in great detail:
"On a day whenever there is a strong north wind on the surface of the sea, the rock tornado will attack the fishing boats offshore. It will subtly jump out of the water like a tornado to attack the fishing boat, and it is difficult for the person being attacked to see its posture. It will use a thin hook on the tail to drag people into the sea and eat them. According to local boaters, it is too late if the sea changes color, and the wind felt is the whirlwind that rises from the tail of the isollow. The rock tornado will appear in an instant, preying on its tail. ”
It can be seen that the isolhusian uses the "fishing" method to prey on humans, and its tail attacking people have been named "islet tornado" because of its resemblance to the tornado - the islet tornado left a very deep impression on the residents of the coastal areas of Japan, until hundreds of years later, the people of Mie Prefecture in the eastern part of the Kii Peninsula still described the drowning incident by the sea as the result of "isostorm stirring up trouble". Hizen is located in the far west of Japan, across the sea from the Korean Peninsula, while Mie Prefecture belongs to, located in the middle of Honshu Island, which shows that Isagi Tornado has long become a national monster in Japan.
For the prototype of the islet scroll in real life, some scholars believe that it is a killer whale, and some scholars believe that it is a bay crocodile - in contrast, In contrast, Isofu in "Naruto" is a gray sea turtle with three tails, and its image is obviously not derived from the Isosurugi in Japanese mythology, but more like the "nine-tailed turtle" in traditional Chinese mythology, And Tao Zongwang, who ranks seventy-fifth in Liangshan Good Han in "Water Margin", is nicknamed "Nine-tailed Turtle". The nine-tailed turtle in Chinese mythology is actually the Jiuzhou turtle in the "History of the Turtle Celie Biography", and the Qing Dynasty Qing Cheng Mu Heng's "Notes on the Transmission of the Water Margin" quotes the ancient book "Turtle Basket Cyanotic Pearl" as "the turtle is three thousand years old and one tail, above the nest lotus leaf" - China has a tradition of wishing for life with a turtle since ancient times, Zhang Yuangan's "Water Dragon Yin" has the congratulatory message of "watching the nest turtle play leaves, peach writing, and wishing three thousand years old", compared to the seven-tailed turtle in the sea, which is not the same origin as the Nine-tailed Turtle in China. The Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Zhongshan Classics do record a monster called the "three-legged turtle":
"Its yang is crazy water, and the southwest flow is injected into Yi water. Among them, there are many three-legged turtles, and the eater has no major disease and can be swollen. ”
Yakura
After all, the three-legged and the three-tailed are different, but there is also a three-tailed beast "Curse" in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Western Mountain Classic":
"There are beasts, whose shape is like a beaver, with one eye and three tails, and their names are badger, and their voices are like a hundred sounds, which can resist the fierce, and the service has been paralyzed."
However, in "Naruto", there is really a monster based on the appearance of the Isagi Tornado, that is, the ninja knife used by the original ninja seven members and the current organization "Nandou" dried persimmon oni: the fish muscle. The fish muscle is called a weapon but has life, and its body is covered with barbs, and when fighting, it can merge with the dried persimmon ghost fish to transform the latter into a shark-like form. In the setting of the story, the fish muscle used to follow the small fish that followed the silk and was responsible for helping the three tails absorb and consume the chakra, and its attachment form was quite similar to the mate--perhaps the silver carp and the fish muscle were once a pair of lovers. However, the fish muscles finally left Isofu to become a fearsome ninja knife, and Isofu lurked at the bottom of the lake because of the loss of human pillar power, just as the mythical Iso Tornado lurked in the ocean.
Dried persimmon ghost fish with mackerel muscles
Four-tailed Monkey King
The fourth tailed beast in Naruto is actually Son Goku.
"Where did a seventeen history begin?" After the Battle of Yashan, Song Cheng Xiang Wen Tianxiang was escorted to Yanjing, and when faced with the ridicule of Yuan Cheng Xiang Polo, "and asked how many emperors and kings have been from Pangu to the present", Wen Tianxiang slowly said such a sentence. In the face of the name sun wukong, I am afraid that many Chinese will also sigh like this: "Sun Wukong, where to start!" ”
Four-tailed Monkey King with
Since the advent of Journey to the West, Sun Wukong has become the most well-known "monster" in Chinese culture. There are many allusions related to Sun Wukong, such as "Haunting the Heavenly Palace" and "Three Dozen White Bone Essences", and his hometown is also easy to be told by "Journey to the West" fans: Dongsheng Shenzhou Proud to come to the national flower and fruit landscape curtain cave - and this is precisely the hometown of the four-tailed Sun Wukong in "Naruto". When Mitsuo first appeared, he introduced himself as follows:
"I am the Monkey King of the Water Curtain Cave, the Six Immortals Giving the Fa name 'Sun', and the King of the Immortal Apes, Sun Wukong."
This line basically shows that the Sun Wukong in "Naruto" is almost a copy of the Sun Wukong in Chinese mythology, but the Chinese Sun Wukong has experienced 9981 difficulties and finally realized that he has cultivated to defeat the Buddha, and the Sun Wukong in "Naruto" is only one of the nine-tailed beasts, which is far from the prominent position in Chinese mythology. In addition, the Golden Hoop Stick became the weapon of the third generation of Naruto's Flying Sun-chopped Psychic Beast in Naruto – of course, that Psychic Beast is a monkey like Sun Wukong, named Ape Demon.
Adaptation is not a mess, and jokes are not nonsense
It can be said that the Chinese Monkey King was split into two characters by Naruto, Four-Tailed and Ape Demon, and four-tailed is closer to the prototype of Monkey King— Huaguo Mountain still exists, but it has become an active volcano with unique Japanese characteristics; and the six immortals give the Dharma name "Sun" also coincide with the preaching of Bodhi Grandmaster. However, why is Sun Wukong the "four" tail? One speculation is to pay homage to the predecessor Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, and in the classic manga that follows, the Dragon Ball carried by its protagonist Son Goku is the Four Star Dragon Ball.
However, from the "Journey to the West" to trace the roots, you can still find the subtle connection between Sun Wukong and the number "four". In the fifty-eighth episode of "Journey to the West", "Two Hearts Disturb the Great Qiankun and It Is Difficult to Cultivate the True Silence of one Body", the true and false Monkey King fights, and even Guanyin cannot distinguish between true and false, so he has to ask Yu Rulai for advice, so Rulai then explains the original reason:
"Within the week, there are five immortals, who are gods and ghosts of heaven and earth, and there are five insects, which are scales and feathers. This is neither heaven nor earth, nor god, nor man, nor ghost, nor is it scale, nor is it hairy, nor is it feathered, nor is it kun. There are also four monkeys mixed, not into the ten categories. ”
Dragon Ball
The four monkeys that "do not belong to the ten categories" are thus called the "mixed four monkeys", namely the Lingming stone monkey, the Akajiri horse monkey, the tong-gibbon monkey and the six-eared monkey. The "Four Monkeys of the Mixed World" is only found in "Journey to the West", and it is said that the Lingming stone monkey is Sun Wukong, the Akajiri horse monkey is the water monster Wuzhiqi captured by Dayu when he is ruling the water, the Tong Arm Ape is Yuan Hong, the four wasted star kings in the "Fengshen Yanyi", and the six-eared macaque monkey is the false monkey king.
The "Four Monkeys of the Mixed World" is not a widely circulated concept in Chinese mythology, but the influence of Journey to the West in Japan should not be underestimated. Japan has filmed four versions of the "Journey to the West" TV series, the 1978 version of "Journey to the West" ratings were close to 30% at one time; in addition to "Dragon Ball", the manga industry has also derived "The Most Traveling", "My Monkey King" and other works, "Doraemon" even launched a "Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West" theatrical version - of course, the biggest impact is "Dragon Ball", from this comic, Sun Wukong in Japan has become a powerful, gluttonous, straight and heartless face figure.
"The Most Traveling"
Such characters have a strong Japanese cultural tradition. Influenced by Chinese culture, Japan also has a zodiac sign, and chinese dogs and monkeys are written in Japan as dogs and apes, respectively; compared with Sun Wukong, who is jealous and hateful, and dares to be bold, the image of the ape in the Japanese tradition can be described as a mixed reputation. In "Ape and Crab Battle", the cunning monkey wants to exchange the seeds of persimmons for crab rice balls, and after successfully exchanging them, the monkeys who grow in persimmon trees cheat to eat persimmons and kill the crabs. In "InuYasha No Naka", the hunter takes the dog and the monkey to hunt and encounters a bear, the monkey immediately slips away, the dog helps the owner fight, and then the dog and the monkey never interact again - although the "InuYasha No Naka" was later used to describe the two as strangers, but the monkey eventually played the disgraceful side.
Interestingly, there is also a well-known folk tale in Japan with monkeys as the secondary protagonist, that is, "Momotaro". Similar to the story of the four masters and apprentices in "Journey to the West" who went to the Western Heavens to learn the scriptures, "Momotaro" tells the story of Momotaro taking a small white dog, a small monkey and a pheasant to the ghost island to eliminate harm for the people, and the monkeys here are undoubtedly righteous and healthy. The Tale of Tono Monogatari Nihon, written by Kunio Yanagida, the founder of Japanese folklore, contains seven folktales about monkeys, both praising their wisdom and sincerity and mocking their stupidity and greed. Compared with one to three tails, monkeys are more varied in the eyes of the Japanese.
However, the Sun Wukong in "Naruto" is obviously isolated from Japan's "monkey culture", and its setting is the same as that of "Journey to the West", and even the "melting away" that his human pillar force Lao Zi is good at also has the meaning of Taishang Laojun's alchemy furnace. Lao Zi, who had been working with The Four Tails for half a lifetime, eventually became a Yunyou monk because of his disagreement with his clan, and did this also imply the shadow of Tang Monk?
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