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Legends Of Ochi-musha

 

First to explain, Ochi-musha are ancient Japanese legends or some real stories on ancient Japanese soldiers whom have ran away during a battle. Musha, the word itself is very old, means an armed person. You can imagine a samurai guy wearing a suit of traditional Japanese armor, dirty looking, with a broken spear or holding a Japanese sword with no sheath, those are usually how people will describe an Ochi-musha, they are not traditionally considered as heroes or cool people like some unprofessional novels or cartoons will describe.γ€€Also, I am not talking about the famous Hei-ke Legend because it is still considered very complicated because it will link to the Japanese Emperor Families, don't want to be too political.

So my friend and I were together again, planning to go out of Hokkaido to feel the summer heat around Honshu or even Kyushu (southern island where famous cities like Fukuoka and Nagasaki are at). "Hey Ryujin, are you sure you want to go to Arashi-yama at Kyoto?" asked my friend. "Why not? There is a very beautiful temple there that I was to visit and we can dress like ancient people in Kimono nearby the Kyomizu Temple, don't you like such things, Aya?" I asked my friend. She shook her head and made a we-are-not-talking-about-that face. "So, not Kyoto?" I asked again.

"Well I cam from a family which ran away from Kyoto because of some political problem, see my ancestors belongs to A FAMOUS SHOGUN (I blurred for some privacy for my friend) and we have a similar family name" she says in a tone like it is normal that anyone would notice about the background.

"Hmm? Your ancestors right? How will it link to you?" I asked in away that I was expecting something superstitious.

Yes, Aya my friend's family background is from one of the Ochi-musha legend, not as great as the Emperor's Family but they belong to some high class samurai later ran away because they did not want to battle anymore. Legend says that their ancestors were chased by the Shogun's soldiers, the old capital used to be Kyoto, so from the capital city, they had ran all over to the north and to the south, most people who ran to the south died because there were already some soldiers waiting for them, others who ran to the north either was caught later or settled around which is now Akita. Back to the story.

"In the legend the family of the shogun still hates our family, they will still find us in spiritual way, like I may meet an accident, etc..." says my friend very very superstitiously.

"No one even remember where MY ancestors lived, we do not even have records back so many centuries ago?" I was dumbfounded as I was saying this to my friend. But studying again about ochi-musha I kind of start to change my mind a bit and respected my friend's believes. "Aya, so you never been to Kyoto in your life?" I asked again could not give up wanting to go to Kyoto with her.

"Well, I wanted to go but somehow it will always be postponed or canceled by strange reasons, last time when you went camping with Bryan, I met my friend too and planned to go to Kyoto next month, weeks later, her aunt died and we need to cancel the trip... I don't want any thing to happen between us" my friend said.

I went off to get some drinks because we have been talking nonstop for awhile. My friend knew that I will be fed-up with her fusses, somehow she manages to book 2 tickets to Shiga with quite a good Ryokan (but no meals... We needed to go to a local super market to buy bento boxes to eat... Oh well).

So I did not noticed until the day before when the Ryokan called us to check if we are coming. "Aya? I thought we are not going to Kansai!?" I called my friend.

"No, we are not going to Kyoto, but we can go to Shiga, right? See nothing bad happened so far" my friend replied as if I can even feel her big smile over the phone than the next day came.

We are at the Kansai International Airport trying to find a train to go to our destination. It went smooth just some "getting lost moments" when you are in a new place, you know what I mean. We arrived mid-evening time, around...17:00-ish? And checked-in.

"Aya, you feel any thing odd?" I asked incase she was just holding on to something (I don't know but I was thinking too much at the time). "Are you feeling things again like you always suddenly will?" she asked me jokingly.

"Never mind" I replied.

That night after our dinner (bento-boxes...) we went to the roof space of the Ryokan. In summer time I heard that they will serve beer, but now they serve only ice cream and soft drinks. We had a cup of vanilla ice cream each and a bottle of soda they call Ramune, I quite like those. Suddenly, my friend fainted and I had to carry her to the closest bench. She woke in my arm and I thought that it was the lightheadedness after a hot bath. My friend pushed me away for no reason and walked off as if nothing happened, I thought she was playing a joke, so I just seated there and drank my drink. (Ramune is a soft drink and she did not drink any medicines)

"Oi, sokono mono (hey, the person there) " my friend pointed at me and spoke demandingly. I looked at her and made a What-the-... Face. "kikenu noka (can't you hear) " she spoke demandingly again. "tobioritemo iinoka? (should I jump down) " she said demandingly again.

I rushed to her covered her mouth because she was shouting and speaking loudly and quickly got to the elevator. "What is wrong with?" I said, my friend pushed me off again this time she was rubbing her hand on her waist as if she was searching for something, she fainted again when the elevator stopped at our floor. I carried her to our room and never spoke about what happened. We stayed 3 nights but nothing else special happened.

Do you think that this is really a possession of some sort of ghost or do you think that my friend was playing a quite hard joke on me?

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blosomes (21 stories) (135 posts)
 
2 months ago (2024-08-03)
Tweed
Thanks and I can tell that you really know well!
I haven't talk about it in front of my friend yet... Well I might just see and will be more alerted on her. Stress hey... I know well how stressful Japanese are now a days... Oh well. 😟
Tweed (36 stories) (2529 posts)
 
2 months ago (2024-08-03)
blosomes, I was hesitant to mention a doctors checkup because I know a bit about how some doctors in Japan tend to treat more than listen. But I thought I'd speak up incase you've found a GP who's a good listener. Hope you guys can get to the bottom of this because it's pretty serious to be fainting and pretty scary too. I hope it doesn't happen to her again.
blosomes (21 stories) (135 posts)
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2 months ago (2024-08-03)
Tweed
Hmm... That is so true πŸ€”
I might want to bring her to a check one day... But you know... It hard here sometimes because of lack of understanding... They still treat everything just giving medicines that's why I hate it πŸ™„
Tweed (36 stories) (2529 posts)
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2 months ago (2024-08-03)
blosomes,

I'd urge her to rule out any physical or psychiatric reasons behind this if she isn't already. I used to know someone who suffered fainting and lost time but hers was a psychiatric condition, one that can lay dormant for many years until triggered by stressful events. Also I don't know much about diabetes but that would be something else to rule out as it can cause all kinds of freakish symptoms. Best to rule out the physical before ruling in the paranormal, to be on the safe side.
blosomes (21 stories) (135 posts)
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2 months ago (2024-08-02)
Tweed
We met 7years ago and lived together almost the same long time.
I would know her more than she knows about me... I think. πŸ€”
She said she had been dreaming during the time she fainted the first time, I told her that she acted strange but she could not remember all that. 😳
Tweed (36 stories) (2529 posts)
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2 months ago (2024-08-02)
Hi blosomes,

How long have you known her? Something like this could be a lot of different things, some paranormal and some not. I think only time will tell and you'll have to spend more time with her. It's very tricky to say but it seems from what you've shared that she has a lot of stress about Kyoto, and what it means to her family, even if she was trying to downplay it.
I think only time will tell what happened to her. Is she talking about it now? Or does she not want to talk about it? If something like that happened to me out of the blue it'd be pretty much all I talked about. But if it had happened before I might be embarrassed and reluctant to open up. Well, that's how I think I'd act if I were her. But I'm not her so maybe I should just shut up lol.
blosomes (21 stories) (135 posts)
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2 months ago (2024-08-01)
Rajine
I asked my friend after the trip, she said she knew that she was going to faint when she realizes she said I was right beside her in our room. I kind of also said that she was dreaming of a scenery like in some Samurai Movies they call Jidai-Geki (Time era Drama? Like they will dress in old style and speak in old ways and things). πŸ€”
I could tell that at that time in the elevator she acted like if she would have a knife or even a sword with her and would draw it out anytime... Luckily she did not even bring her hand bag with her... Or else I might be attacked 😳
Rajine (14 stories) (884 posts)
 
2 months ago (2024-08-01)
Hi blosomes

Does your friend remember this incident? And after she went through that how was her behavior?

If I were to guess, perhaps it was a resident spirit that took over your friend for a few minutes 🀷

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