Placement of the Yoroi

I had this thing all planned out for where the yoroi rested after they were made right? Well, why the hell do they end up where they do when they get scattered at the beginning of the series??? I asked some questions, and had answers and it led back to the poem Nasuti uses to find them:

Endure the immortality of Mt. Fuji
Swirling waters you lie in a distant place
The light blossoms when in the darkest prison
Winter comes to a snowy mountain
As he lies floating in the sky

Where did this poem come from. I highly doubt Nasuti’s grandfather made it up. He probably found it himself. And I’m also pretty sure it wasn’t in the present form of common Japanese either. It was probably written in an archaic form of Japanese. From what they show of Nasuti’s computer in the show, it mainly shows Kanji. So I’m assuming that this archaic form of Japanese was when they wrote in nothing but Kanji. And of course it isn’t the same Kanji as is used now. Most of the Kanji they used then isn’t even used now a days.

For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, in the past the Japanese borrowed the use of Kanji from the Chinese. They then used their writing system for their language. Now, Japanese and Chinese are nothing alike. So in conforming the Kanji to the use of the Japanese language things were changed and weird stuff happened. I haven’t done any kind of in depth study of this so I don’t know the details. Either way, it was harder to write in that time than in this time.

SO! Nasuti or her grandfather had to go back and translate this stuff. Of course things are not the same as they were then, so idioms and such are not as understood and probably will never mean the same thing (if they are understood at all). It is possible that upon the translation of this poem that some of the words were mistaken for other words.

Since Kaosu paid such close attention to the yoroi he kept an eye on this poem that possibly he wrote and left in the hands of some high loyal priest or something like that.

You see, my idea is that this poem was originally the solution as to where Kaosu hid the yoroi in the first place. There could have been more, to locate the Masho yoroi, but that was lost or destroyed or something like that since they were taken fairly early in the story. But Kaosu knew that in the present time that the clues in the poem would not point to the same places, so he used his power (unknowingly by anyone at the time) to guide the yoroi to these more obvious places of power than the original ones were in… which could possibly no longer exist). No matter how smart Nasuti is, there’s no way she’d be able to read the mind of someone who was thinking of these clues over 500 years ago.

But here is my thinking:

REKKA = Mt. Fuji

“Endure the Immortality of Mt. Fuji”

Ryo was found in Mt. Fuji in the fourth episode, hence he endured the heat of the mighty volcano. But you could also endure the Immortality of Fuji from far away.

Here is one of the meanings of endure: to regard with acceptance or tolerance

It is possible that Rekka was originally in a place where it could endure Fuji’s immortality from a distance. Possibly from another mountain near or in the Shinshu area.

SUIKO = Naruto

“Swirling waters you lie in a distant place”

This one is actually pretty easy. You can find whirlpools in many different places. The Naruto whirlpools are just a couple of the biggest. It’s possible that Suiko was actually hidden in a shrine that sat above a swirling whirlpool in a cove or bay near Hagi or just in that vicinity on the west coast of Japan. And Hagi or Choshu is considered pretty far from Kyoto (The capital, or old capital) and it was far enough that people could be sent there in exile (Not as bad as being sent to Kyushu or Shikoku, but still bad).

KORIN = Akidoshi

“The light blossoms when in the darkest prison”

This one is actually pretty easy too. You see, just as Hagi was seen as being pretty far from Kyoto… the Tohoku region was even farther away. Most of the northern region of Honshu was just wilderness and was mostly inhabited by the Enishi (think back to Mononoke Hime, same people). They were forced from their homes farther south and some believe that the Ainu in Hokkaido were originally the Enishi people. So, if you think of the Emperor as a descendent of Amaterasu (the Sun Goddess) then it’s pretty bright in Kyoto with his influence. However in the far reaches of the north far away from his light, it is dark. So, Korin was packed away in a shrine in the north where the light of the Emperor and the Gods doesn’t quite reach at that time.

KONGO = Mt. Daisetsu

“Winter comes on a snowy mountain”

This one was quite a bit more difficult to figure out. I mean, Hokkaido wasn’t known about in the time that the yoroi were made. Shit, a lot of northern Honshu wasn’t known about! So why was Kongo in the Kanto, or at least what reasoning could I put as to why Kongo was in the Kanto and why he was also sent to Mt. Daisetsu??

First I looked at their heights. Mt. Daisetsu is the largest mountain on Hokkaido. But there are several mountains around Fuji that are much bigger then it is. So, I looked at the Kanto’s position within Japan. It’s a rather roundish area between the sea and the mountains. So I thought that yea, winter comes on a snowy mountain, but it doesn’t snow much in the Kanto. It’s an observation. From the Kanto you can see the snow on the mountains!

Then something else pops into my head. In the episode where they are looking for Shu in his rock, Nasuti mentions the Throne of the Gods, and the Garden of the Gods. Shu is supposed to be in the Throne of the Gods, while Mt. Daisetsu is in a national park known as the Garden of the Gods. What did this really have to do with the poem. She of course doesn’t say. But then I thought, Kongo… earth… rock. The Kanto is very fertile and is major farming ground. The “Throne of the Gods” are the mountains around the Kanto including Fuji. While the “Garden of the Gods” Is the Kanto itself which brings about life (the people plant the plants grow and the people eat the plants and so forth!). So then, why does he go to Daisetsu? Easy, Kaosu figured that it was the most obvious place for him to go. He’s in the mountains, it’s VERY snowy and boom, there just happens to be a throne of the gods there. That works in a pinch.

TENKU = Space

“As he lies floating in the sky”

Well, if you take it literally, which you’d have to to find Touma in space, I feel that Kaosu was trying to put them in the most obvious places. Of course, how they were going to get to Touma is another question. But how does this relate to Tenku being in the Kansai? Well, sky? Heaven? Close to the same? Possibly Kanji that meant heaven before means sky now. And of course with Kyoto, Nara, Yamato, and Ise all in the Kansai well, it’s almost a heavenly place! Basically, the Emperor lives in Kansai. The closest mortals can get to the Gods is through the emperor so it’s as close to the heaves as you can get! Until space travel that is… or death which ever comes first.

So what do you think? Does it all fit together? Or not? It sounds good to me, but then I’ve been thinking about this for awhile. I need a fresh thought to it all!! Someone? Anyone? Or am I just good? …. I doubt that, but still a fresh thought would be helpful!! Again e-mail me or sign the guest book!!

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