There are several interpretations, and it’s up to the reader to decide for themselves what the poem means to them. There are countless blog entries and forum posts where readers ask others what the poem means, and if any of them have been brave enough to read it out loud. In 1983, a director by the name of Terayama Shuji made a film based on the poem and later died, which was how rumours of the poem being cursed first came about.īut why is the poem cursed? Who is Tomino and why is he or she in Hell? MEANINGĮven for Japanese speakers, the true meaning behind Tomino’s Hell can be difficult to understand. It’s said that if you read the poem out loud, then you will either die or suffer from a great catastrophe. On the surface, the poem is about a person named Tomino and their journey through hell. Tomino’s Hell, or Tomino no Jigoku, was written by poet Saijou Yaso in the 1919 poetry collection Sakin. Through the seven mountains and seven valleys of Hell, He screams as loud as he can in yearning for his younger sister. The nightingale in the cage, the sheep in the cart, Spring comes to the forest and the valley,Īnd to the seven twisting valleys of dark Hell. In preparation for the journey into the most painful of Hells. Put as much as you can into the leather sack, Would you request guidance into the darkness of Hell,įrom the golden sheep, or the nightingale?
There is but a single road to the eighth and most painful Hell. The blood on the whip weighs on his mind.īeating and striking yet not hitting at all, Is it Tomino’s older sister wielding the whip? The darkness of Hell where even flowers don’t bloom. His older sister vomits blood, and his younger sister vomits fire, I will leave it up to you how you perceive the poem itself. In reality, people have claimed to feel ill whilst reading this poem, so I recommend those who are weak to self-suggestion to read the poem silently. If you read it out loud, you will meet with misfortune. The poem is recorded in the poetry collection Sakin. This poem is the work of Saijou Yaso, a popular poet who worked on children’s nursery rhymes and popular song lyrics.
There exists a poem that you must not read out loud.
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