Apparition?Or an alien?What is the identity of the "meat" that Ieyasu Tokugawa was about to encounter?

Ieyasu Tokugawa is also known as a healthy nerd.The basics of Ieyasu, who were in a luxurious position, but were mainly rough food.Ieyasu was about to encounter a mysterious creature when he was in Sunpu Castle.

In Keicho 14, a mysterious creature was found in the Sunpu Castle, where Ieyasu was in the castle.The figure was as large as a child, and it was a creature that could be called a meat lump or a meat.

In front of the unusual figure that keeps pointing to the sky with a finger -free hand, the family were confused.I didn't know what to do, and after asking Ieyasu, I was ordered to "drive somewhere away."

The servants try to catch the meat, but they are quick and cannot be caught.Therefore, we will drive to the mountains as if to drive.

An intellectual who heard this story later said, "It's a sennaku called" Ho "in the Chinese old book" Shirasawa Figure "."He says that it is quite valuable and that it will be a lot of power if you eat it.He was given by Ieyasu if he knew it, but he was sorry.

Tokugawa Ieyasu statue (Wikipedia)

However, from Ieyasu's point of view, I guess even a healthy nerd would not want such a bad thing.This episode is described in the essay of the Edo period "One night story".It is not clear whether there was a meat person, but some mysterious phenomena occurred.

A meat man who has entered the harsh Junpu Castle and was not caught by Ieyasu's servants.The identity of this mysterious creature is said to be the youkai "Nurofuhofu".It is a youkai that also appears in the "Picture Demon Yogyo" drawn by the Ukiyo -e painter, Toriyama Ishizen in the Edo period.

From Toriyama Ishien "Figure Hyakki Yagyo" (Wikipedia)

In addition, the Shogunate's official record, "Tokugawa Riki," states that clouds emerged on the day they encountered the meat.I imagine the episode of an overnight story that the meat was pointing to the sky, and the occult development that the flashy clouds described in Tokugawa real were UFOs.I will go.

However, there is a possibility that the tramp has just slipped into it.Even so, it's a strange story that I couldn't catch it by entering the Sunpu Castle, which was perfect.

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