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[[File:SekienNinmenju.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"Jinjenju" (人面樹) from the ''[[Konjaku Hyakki Shūi]]'' by [[Toriyama Sekien]]]] |
[[File:SekienNinmenju.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"Jinjenju" (人面樹) from the ''[[Konjaku Hyakki Shūi]]'' by [[Toriyama Sekien]]]] |
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{{nihongo|'''Jinmenju''' or '''Ninmenju'''|人面樹|''human-face tree''}} is a legendary Chinese tree in the [[Edo Period]] ''[[Konjaku Hyakki Shūi]]'' by [[Toriyama Sekien]].<ref>{{Cite book|author=[[多田克己]]|title=百鬼解読|year=2006|publisher=[[講談社]]|series=[[講談社文庫]]|isbn=978-4-06-275484-2|pages=20頁}}</ref> |
{{nihongo|'''Jinmenju''' or '''Ninmenju'''|人面樹|''human-face tree''}} is a legendary Chinese tree in the [[Edo Period]] ''[[Konjaku Hyakki Shūi]]'' by [[Toriyama Sekien]].<ref>{{Cite book|author=[[多田克己]]|title=百鬼解読|year=2006|publisher=[[講談社]]|series=[[講談社文庫]]|isbn=978-4-06-275484-2|pages=20頁}}</ref> |
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According to the ''Sancai Tuhui'', Daishikoku is a land thousand ri southwest, with flowers like human hands, and upon asking it questions, its flowers would laugh, but it wouldn't understand human language and if they laugh too much, the flowers would wither and fall.<ref>{{Cite book|author=寺島良安|others=島田勇雄・竹島淳夫・樋口元巳訳注|title=[[和漢三才図会]]|year=1986|publisher=[[平凡社]]|series=[[東洋文庫 (平凡社)|東洋文庫]]|volume=3|isbn=978-4-582-80456-0|pages=319頁}}</ref> The ''Rōō Sawa'' (老媼茶話), a collection of strange tales from [[Aizu]], also quotes the ''Sancai Tuhui'' while making statements about this tree.<ref>{{Cite book|author=三坂春編|editor=高田衛校訂代表|title=近世奇談集成|year=1992|publisher=国書刊行会|series=〈叢書江戸文庫|volume=1|isbn=978-4-336-03012-2|pages=24頁|chapter=老媼茶話}}</ref> |
According to the ''Sancai Tuhui'', Daishikoku is a land thousand ri southwest, with flowers like human hands, and upon asking it questions, its flowers would laugh, but it wouldn't understand human language and if they laugh too much, the flowers would wither and fall.<ref>{{Cite book|author=寺島良安|others=島田勇雄・竹島淳夫・樋口元巳訳注|title=[[和漢三才図会]]|year=1986|publisher=[[平凡社]]|series=[[東洋文庫 (平凡社)|東洋文庫]]|volume=3|isbn=978-4-582-80456-0|pages=319頁}}</ref> The ''Rōō Sawa'' (老媼茶話), a collection of strange tales from [[Aizu]], also quotes the ''Sancai Tuhui'' while making statements about this tree.<ref>{{Cite book|author=三坂春編|editor=高田衛校訂代表|title=近世奇談集成|year=1992|publisher=国書刊行会|series=〈叢書江戸文庫|volume=1|isbn=978-4-336-03012-2|pages=24頁|chapter=老媼茶話}}</ref> |
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==In popular culture== |
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* In the ''[[InuYasha]]'' anime series, episodes 57 and 58 revolve around Tokajin, a sage who feeds humans to a demonic tree with human-faced fruit in exchange for the immortality the fruit can grant. |
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* In the music video for [[Dir en grey]]'s song "[[Obscure (song)|Obscure]]", a woman resembling a [[geisha]] is seen taking a baby's head from a tree. |
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* The [[Pokémon]] Exeggutor may have been based on the Jinmenju. |
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* In several ''[[Castlevania]]'' games, there is a monster called "corpseweed" that appears as a tall plant with a head dangling from the end. |
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* In the [[Sega Saturn]] port of ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]'' there is a new enemy Jinmenju which looks almost exactly like a jinmenju. |
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* In the game ''[[Tomba!|Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return]]'', there are fruits in Donglin Forest that either cry or laugh. |
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* In the film ''[[Dead and Deader]]'', there is an enemy tree-like creature, called Sun, with human faces, which may be inspired by this creature. |
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==Notes== |
==Notes== |
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Revision as of 18:54, 3 April 2020
Jinmenju or Ninmenju (人面樹, human-face tree) is a legendary Chinese tree in the Edo Period Konjaku Hyakki Shūi by Toriyama Sekien.[1]
Concept
The picture depicts it as a tree blooming flowers like human heads, with the following explanatory text:
In mountain valleys, its flowers just like human heads, without a word, they merely just smile away, smile away until its petals fall just like that (山谷にあり その花人の首のごとし ものいはずしてたゞ笑ふ事しきりなり しきりにわらへば そのまま落花すといふ)[2]
Besides Japanese yōkai, the Konjaku Hyakki Shūi also included publications of plants, animals and yōkai outside of Japan and this "jinmenju" as well as the Wakan Sansai Zue quote from the Sancai Tuhui and it depicts a tree from a land called "Daishikoku" (大食国, big-eat country).[2]
According to the Sancai Tuhui, Daishikoku is a land thousand ri southwest, with flowers like human hands, and upon asking it questions, its flowers would laugh, but it wouldn't understand human language and if they laugh too much, the flowers would wither and fall.[3] The Rōō Sawa (老媼茶話), a collection of strange tales from Aizu, also quotes the Sancai Tuhui while making statements about this tree.[4]
Notes
- ^ 多田克己 (2006). 百鬼解読. 講談社文庫. 講談社. pp. 20頁. ISBN 978-4-06-275484-2.
- ^ a b 稲田篤信・田中直日編 (1992). 鳥山石燕 画図百鬼夜行. 高田衛監修. 国書刊行会. pp. 191頁. ISBN 978-4-336-03386-4.
- ^ 寺島良安 (1986). 和漢三才図会. 東洋文庫. Vol. 3. 島田勇雄・竹島淳夫・樋口元巳訳注. 平凡社. pp. 319頁. ISBN 978-4-582-80456-0.
- ^ 三坂春編 (1992). "老媼茶話". In 高田衛校訂代表 (ed.). 近世奇談集成. 〈叢書江戸文庫. Vol. 1. 国書刊行会. pp. 24頁. ISBN 978-4-336-03012-2.
See also
External links
- Jinmenju – The Human Face Tree at hyakumonogatari.com (English)
- arasi.com(Japanese)
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