Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Kiyohime


Did this piece as an homage to one of my favorite japanese stories, enjoy.   


   "One day, a handsome visiting priest named Anchin 

fell in love with a beautiful woman named Kiyohime, but 

after a time he overcame his passions and refrained from 

further meetings. Kiyo became furious at the sudden 

change of heart and pursued him in rage. The priest and 

Kiyohime met at the edge of the Hidaka river, where the 

priest asked a boatman to help him to cross the river, 

but told him not to let her cross with his boat. When 

Kiyo saw that Anchin was escaping her, she jumped into 

the river and started to swim after him. While swimming

in the torrent of the Hidaka river, she transformed into a 

large serpent because of her rage. When Anchin saw her 

coming after him in the form of a huge serpent, he ran 

into the temple called Dōjō-ji. He asked the priests of 

Dōjōji for help and they hid him under the bell of temple. 

However, the serpent smelled him hiding inside the bell 

and started to coil around it. It banged the bell loudly 

several times with its tail, then gave a great belch of fire 

that melted the bell, killing the priest."


Via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyohime

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