https://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.jp/2005/03/cat-neko.html
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Nekomata – The Split-Tailed Cat
by Zack Davisson
Kamakura Period –
The Nekomata of the Mountains
Most Japanese yokai were born during the Edo period, but the nekomata has more ancient roots. Mention of the nekomata first appeared during the Kamakura period (1185-1333), where it was mentioned in the literary jottings of Yoshida Kenko in his scroll Tsurezure-gusa (徒然草; The Harvest of Leisure, also known as Essays in Idleness). Yoshida wrote "Deep in the mountains there is a creature called the nekomata. It is said that it feeds on humans." At around the same period, Fujiwara Sadaie recorded in the scroll Meigetsuki (明月記; The Record of the Clear Moon, sometimes called Diary of the Clear Moon) that on August 8th in the first year of Tenpuku (1233) in Nanto (modern day Nara prefecture) a nekomata from the mountains killed and ate several people.
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source : hyakumonogatari.com
Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats of Japan
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Nekomata – The Split-Tailed Cat
by Zack Davisson
Kamakura Period –
The Nekomata of the Mountains
Most Japanese yokai were born during the Edo period, but the nekomata has more ancient roots. Mention of the nekomata first appeared during the Kamakura period (1185-1333), where it was mentioned in the literary jottings of Yoshida Kenko in his scroll Tsurezure-gusa (徒然草; The Harvest of Leisure, also known as Essays in Idleness). Yoshida wrote "Deep in the mountains there is a creature called the nekomata. It is said that it feeds on humans." At around the same period, Fujiwara Sadaie recorded in the scroll Meigetsuki (明月記; The Record of the Clear Moon, sometimes called Diary of the Clear Moon) that on August 8th in the first year of Tenpuku (1233) in Nanto (modern day Nara prefecture) a nekomata from the mountains killed and ate several people.
MORE
source : hyakumonogatari.com
Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats of Japan
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