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What does "Sakuraco" means? One of mine is that you aren't going to continue with the history of Japan videos 😨😋 Edit: now I'm scared of you, how did you knew I was eating ice cream?
That's so funny because it can go both ways. Any rando can say anything in the net, but the net is where we get them infos. From randos. Also, the net is the only way for so many people to be self (inter?)-educated If you can't trust the internet, what can you trust?
Asking for donations. Does stuff for followers, based on donations. Often does wierd challegnes, like eating trees for 10 days. Often had people watching him actually doing the stuff. So, they were basically Influencers?
The only wet place I could think of where a mummy could be made is a swamp. But that’s only because the bacteria, nutrients and things like that are perfect for mummifying a body. The Bog Man is a famous example of this. You could also be mummified in ice but you’d have to be at a high altitude and your body would have to keep dry. We’ve all heard of the Incan girl who was left on a mountain as a sacrifice. Poor girl was basically raised to be killed😔 I always thought it was a situation where gods are mad, pick a child, sacrifice child, people don’t starve. But no she was raised to be killed. Not given a chance to have friends or play or fall in love. That makes it sadder to me I’m rambling but that poor Girl honesty makes me so sad for her that she was never given a life and her only purpose was to have her life taken away
There’s a part of American Gods where a kid is raised in total darkness for years to be sacrificed, his body smoked and dried, and used as an idol. Those sacrificed kids eventually become German kobolds.
If I remember correctly, in Inuyasha there's a monk that did that and got super scared to die while in the hole, wondering why he had to die when he helped so many people live, and Naraku takes advantage of his fear and uses him to hide in the last arc. His episode really gave a lot of perspective to the whole practice tbh
Fun fact, the three great leaders of the Northern Fujiwara clan are also mummified and entombed in the Konjikido, the Golden Hall, though there version was not the same as this version and none of them were priests. Also, if you want more stories about crazy Buddhist priests the last two videos I have out are exactly about that. Just know my production quality isn't as good and I'm much newer at this stuff.
@@michaelblower7363 Undoubtedly. Although the heritage of the Emishi is disputed, one of the Three Greats of the Oshu Fujiwara, Motohira, was entombed sporting clothing reminiscent of the Ainu, and bearing a dagger with a handle made from deer antler, which was not something the Japanese did. I find them fascinating because, as you said, they were this merging of Yamato and Emishi, aristocrat and warrior, sedentary agriculturist and nomadic hunter-gatherer, and that makes for fascinating stories.
@@fran3ro To be fair, the Northern Fujiwara were basically their own separate thing, with a single tie to the Fujiwara of the capital. The Heian Fujiwara likely thought of their northern relatives as barbaric and uncouth warriors, mingling aristocrat blood with Emishi savages, and the Northern Fujiwara were more than happy to let the Heian nobility think that while they largely kept to themselves in the north. They didn't even do much when the country fell into civil war during the Gempei War while their Heian cousins found themselves caught in the middle of it all. That is all to say, that the Northern Fujiwara were related to their cousins in the capital, but also distinct and separate from them.
It's All-Saint's Day. The day all the Catholics celebrate any Saint they can find. If it looks saintly, they celebrate. So our Buddhist Brothers count.
Rome stole ideas from Greece, and the same goes with Japan stealing from China since it was an older civilization. Which is what the other commenter meant by that
I remember reading that in slang was used in certain areas; clover was used for wild boars, while maple leaves referred to deer. That puts a different light on the foraging in the woods thing. 😅
This is a far more widespread practice than what you have suggested. There were many sects of Buddhism that adopted this practice though it is probably exaggerated how many actually did it. Your video is filled with many serious errors. I happen to live in a house formerly owned by a member of the "Mokujiki shonin" sect. His "grave" (o-haka) is located on my property but the place he is actually buried is at a temple about 40 miles away, where he was buried "alive" and supposedly mummified (FWIW the crypt is still sealed so the condition of the body is anyone's guess). For starters, the term "mokujiki" (木食) does NOT mean that they ate wood. The Mokujiki sect were famous for wood carving, which in ancient Japanese writing used the character for "eat" wood rather than "cut" wood. It **IS** true that these monks had diet periods where they were only allowed to eat the fruit of trees (木の実 -- ie no grains or tubers). However while this diet did include a lot of nuts (especially walnuts), it did NOT involve wood and it DID include a lot of things we consider to be vegetables (like eggplant and soybeans). The way they mummified themelves was to prepare the tomb as you describe, and drink a tea concocted of the tannin from oak, walnut and kashi bark. This would rot their stomach, and basically kill them within an hour of the "burial" so the amount of time spent buried alive was not that long. Supposedly the tannin from the tea also helped the mummification process. Of course the only people who did this were really old guys who thought they were close to death anyway, so the practice was more a form of euthenasia with a big audience, and not really as frightening as "being buried alive" But please dont be mislead by bad translation. "Mokujiki" does NOT mean that the monks ate wood. It means that they were famous for their wood carvings.
Yeah, when you start to consider death by dehydration, self mummification starts to sound a lot less feasible. You would die long before you could remove sufficient water content to stop decomposition.
Accidental self-mummification does happen occasionally. There are several kinds of toxins that prevent decomposition but don't kill you until your body is saturated with it. The most obvious one is methylmercury (the cause for Minamata Disease), but potassium cyanide also does the job. The most common self-mummification toxin, however, was chromium sulfate. It was used as a tanning agent and many workers in the leather industry were exposed to it. It kills people very slowly but can be absorbed by the body in such amounts as to cause immediate desiccation and preservation of the body after death because at that point ingestion of water stops.
I can imagine having 108 soldiers make sure you stick to your diet is quite efficient, I'll have to remember that diet hack for January! Edit: I'm poor, will it also work if I hire fewer soldiers? How few soldiers would I need? I'm asking because this is my favourite fitness channel
Well, ok here in Colorado we had a bandit who accidentally mummified himself by dying in a cave most likely in winter, the drying was probably relatively slow but occurred at low temperature. The whole “meditation on the mountain” might be the key there.
Nah, that's not meditation led, there are many forms of standing/moving/sitting meditation. That was just stupid, these men(the japanese monks) actually did practiced, even though the diet and trips were lacking in truth in certain individuals who practice this. This is why I chose chan buddhism, at least you can eat meat two days out of the week, rest is fish, eggs, rice, and tofu!
Here in colorado, we got some of the wierdest chrecters for assholes/fuck wits that most choose criminal careers and most fail miserably at simple tasks and applying any tact.
Here in colorado, we got some of the wierdest chrecters for assholes/fuck wits that most choose criminal careers and most fail miserably at simple tasks and applying any tact.
Even if a lot of the past Japanese Buddhist monk mummies were accidents, if you were to ask them now they would actually do the 1000 days of self preparation. I remember a Buddhist monk being interviewed and him going over the whole process (he essentially did everything they did except the burying part and drink from a spring which I will explain later). When researchers studied his diet and combined it with existing accounts it turns out that the kind of trees the monks would eat bark from had anti fungal and insecticide properties. Then they took a sample of the spring and it was unusually high in arsenic. So if by accident or intention that diet essentially concentrated chemicals that helped preserve the body after death.
This reminds me of Waldon. Thoreau wasn't alone in the wilderness. He went into town, had visitors, etc. The ascetic aesthetic (hee!) has just gotten around to people who aren't very familiar with the whole idea.
Another amazing video!! I didn’t even know they have mummified monks in Japan that’s pretty crazy 👀 the fact that the real stories behind the monks were marketed with made up stories even in their own era, made a lot of sense how easy it can be to come up with really insane stories lol
If you add people selling false pilgrim badge (badges you got at station when you go on a pilgrimage) and also false relic trafic i just understood that whenever there is profit to be made someone will try to make profit
Funny this vid came out. I finally got around to buying a book talking about the subject...eh ayo Linfamy? You sure you ain't the federal agent monitoring me?
I mean surely not ALL the attempts were done post-mortem. Bukkai Shonin in 1903 probably did it while alive given all the witnesses and political stuff surrounding it happening. (Since anything like that was made illegal in the Meiji period, so he ultimately wasn't dug up later, but he was at least buried alive), and the poisonous Urushi Tea was apparently a thing.
Oh, you didn't address the rumour about the self mumifiers drinking lacquer to stop decomposition or that they'd sit in the lotus position, so their fluids would seep out of them, helping them to dry out. How disappointing!
I read online that Brendan Fraser is going to star in a remake of The Mummy where he fasts to lose fat after The Whale and becomes a mummy. PS: I read it as I write it. I am my own source. It was a present tense. English is a mess.
One of the children’s books I read on mummies (when I was a child myself) featured a Buddhist monk who only drank tree sap tea and was in a room With a bell. He rang the bell each day to let the other monks know he was alive. After a couple of years the bell stopped ringing each day, and the other monks sealed it off for 2 years. When they returned they were met with their monk brother who was now mummified.
Well, don’t I feel silly telling people about this. (Wouldn’t be surprised if tree sap/lacquer was applied to the corpse as well, there’s a, I guess inaccurate but this still makes sense, video from Ask A Mortician about these guys that mentions that. Kinda checks out…)
Yeah, Smithsonian and a study in the National Institue of Health describe how they basically made wrappers of the body by soaking cloth in laquer... like a funeral piñata.
9:30 In summary, this tradition probably started with a Weekend At Bernie's- the temple had received vast amounts of donations for the head monk's next trip, but the head monk had a heart attack while spending a night with his chigo. As such, they told the donners "uh, change of plans, the head monk is going on a much larger spiritual trip than expected. It will be...uh...2....no 3 years long. Yeah. He is going to be in total seclusion"
Decades ago, before the invention of the WWW, I watched a documentary that described this 'practice', with a few differences. First, this monk wasn't a hermit but a high ranking member of a cloister/ashram. In preparation he would remove 'impure' elements from his diet until he ate only five kinds of grain, and ingest medical herbs for about a month. After he had cleansed himself enough, he would start drinking lacquer which was supposed to help him to preserve his body. After having fasted long enough the entombment would happen, and he would chant and ring a bell until he couldn't any longer. His disciples would wait for seven more days and then pull him out of the chamber. Looks like - in the times of the internet - this story wasn't extreme enough and so they had to embellish it.
I became aware of Buddhist monks attire thanks to the introduction of one of the Gorma Tribe's high ranked officers who appeared early in the Sentai Dairanger's run the Archbishop Saw who was dressed like a Buddhist monk in his human guise.
Hey! Just wanted to comment - I've been watching Kusuriya no Hitorigoti (Apothecary Diaries) and just wanted to voice my appreciation for the context you taught me especially concerning historical prostitution and courtesans in Japan. It's a really well made anime and has many references to subjects you have covered in this channel. I've been linking your relevant videos during discussion about the show.
@@Linfamy Helpful, informative, and undeniably entertaining! The body of work created by people such as yourself is, in my opinion, at or near the pinnacle of human creation. I hope you're able to support yourself making this stuff, and that it's as fun and fulfilling as it seems to be. Have a lovely day
The Japanese must have had a different definition of "cereal" or "grain" than we do today. 5 of the items on the list are not types of grass. and would not be called cereals or grains today.
