![]() ![]() Officials said there had been a crack in the stone for some time and that rain and freezing temperatures may have led to the splitting of the stone.Īccording to the Nasu Town Tourist Information Center, on the afternoon of the 5th, tourists posted a photo of sesshoseki cracking on SNS, and officials of the association confirmed it locally. The news outlet talked to the Nasu Town Tourist Information Center who confirmed that the stone really cracked in half. ![]() The Japanese news website Yomiuri Shimbun reported that the Killing Stone split in two in March 2022. As told in the Otogizoshi, when the nine-tailed fox was killed by the famous warrior Miura-nosuke, its body became the Sessho-seki." The stone is believed to be the transformed corpse of Tamamo no Mae, a beautiful woman who was exposed to be a kind nine-tailed fox working for an evil daimyo plotting to kill the Japanese Emperor Konoe and take his throne. It is said that the stone kills anyone who comes into contact with it. "The Sessho-seki, or "Killing Stone," is an object in Japanese mythology. ![]() Jisho, a Japanese-English dictionary, writes: According to Japanese mythology, the spirit of an evil nine-tailed fox, who walked the earth in the body of Tamamo-no-Mae, a beautiful woman who attempted to kill Emperor Toba in the 1100s. Sessho-seki is located near volcanic mountains in Nasu, Japan. As for the facts, while we have nothing too concerning about the existence of the evil spirit - which is, after all, a mythical entity - we can say that the Killing Stone truly split in half in March 2022. ![]()
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