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According to history Heike (平 家 物語 Heike monogatari?), Emperor Konoe, one of the Emperor of Japan, fell ill after having nightmares every night, and a dark cloud appeared in two in the morning at the top of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto during the summer of 1153. According to the story, a samurai, Minamoto no Yorimasa climb the roof at night and shoot arrows towards the clouds, and a dead nue fall from there. It is believed that the carcass Yorimasa drowned in the Sea of Japan.
In additional stories in the other versions, the carcass floating nue came to a headland, and local residents buried them for fear of receiving a curse. Mound near the promontory still exists and is believed to be tombs for the nue.
Etymology
Said nue appears in the oldest Japanese literature. Quote the containing, among others, in the Kojiki (712) and Wamyō Ruijushō (about 934). Due to the use Man'yōgana script, written in previous spelling nuye. However, at that time, the word implies different semantics. The word also refers to a kind of bird called anis white.
In the 13th century, history Heike containing records about a creature called nue. In addition to the heads of monkeys, stature tanuki, legged tiger, and the tail of a snake, he also voiced like anis white.
Around 1435, Zeami Motokiyo writing songs Noh called Nue that tell the story in the history of the Heike.
Appearance
Appears in the Heike Monogatari, he has the face of a monkey, tiger feet, the body of a Japanese Raccoon Dog and the front half of the snake's tail. According to who wrote it, sometimes there are stated on his body, or sometimes described as having the body of a tiger. Also, there are documents such as Genpei Jōsuiki stating that it has a rear tiger, tanuki legs, and tail fox, and furthermore a cat's head, and torso chicken. Due to his appearance, sometimes referred to as a Japanese chimera. About how it appears when depicted visually, there is also the idea that it is a combination of animal in Ganzhi, with Tiger northeast, southeast Snake, Monkey southwest, and northwest Qian (dog and boar).
Behavior
Name
Originally, the nue were stated to be a bird that resembles the green pheasant, but their precise identity is unknown. The 夜 within the 鵺 character is phonetic component and thus does not carry a meaning with it. The character 鵼 (kou or kuu) is determined to be a kind of strange bird. Due to the use of Man'yōgana, the historical spelling is known to have been nuye. At this early time, although, it had a different semantic meaning. It referred to a bird known as White's thrush. In Japan, they are considered a bird that makes cries at night, and the word can be seen in the Kojiki and the Man'yōshū. The owner of this crying voice is thought to be a yellow-red bird as big as a Columbidae, but nowadays there is the accepted theory that they are scaly thrush. Since the people of the Heian Period heard the sorrowful sounding voices of this bird as some ill-omened, they were considered to be a wicked bird, and it is said that when the emperor or nobles heard its crying voice, they would make prayers that nothing disastrous would happen. The monster in the "Heike Monogatari," in the end, was merely "something that cries with the voice of a nue, with its true nature known," and was not given a name. But nowadays, that monster's name is thought be "nue," and this one is particularly famous. Borrowing this word for other meanings, it is also used to refer to entities of unknown true form.
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