Reading Notes: Japanese Mythology - Reading B
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Yamato, like Robert Baratheon is ignoring his wife to hunt. It didn't end very well for Robert...
You're telling me that Yamato stubbed his toe on a dragon and nothing happened? He just kept on walking? He's that badass??
That was pretty good rhyming!
Yamato, you are a married man! You better get your stuff together.
Okay, so far, this seems like a win win for yamato. Become immortal and be in love with a beautiful mermaid for the rest of his life.
EVEN BETTER. HAVE SOMEONE GO GET THE APPLE FOR YOU.
Yamato can't even appreciate what he has. You're selfish, Yamato.
Slaying a giant boar sounds very similar. Didn't Hercules have to kill a boar?
I wonder if the idea of a scared sword came from stories of excalibur, or did stories of excalibur come from the story seen here?
I didn't take many notes, because a lot of the stories were difficult to read but I enjoyed them all. Yamato is someone that, like many greek heroes, has good qualities and bad. He finds an ancient, power filled weapon to help him slay demons and monsters ans such.
The Labors of Yamato seem very similar to the seven tasks of hercules. I wonder which story came first and did the author draw inspiration from the other? Probably not, since these stories are so old. But that means that they were written without the knowledge of the existence of the other, so it is mere coincidence that they are so similar. That's really cool to thing about.
I googled Yamato and this is one of the things that popped up.
It's cool to see the stories we read about appear in other places in Japanese life. Like this battleship.
Yamato, like Robert Baratheon is ignoring his wife to hunt. It didn't end very well for Robert...
You're telling me that Yamato stubbed his toe on a dragon and nothing happened? He just kept on walking? He's that badass??
That was pretty good rhyming!
Yamato, you are a married man! You better get your stuff together.
Okay, so far, this seems like a win win for yamato. Become immortal and be in love with a beautiful mermaid for the rest of his life.
EVEN BETTER. HAVE SOMEONE GO GET THE APPLE FOR YOU.
Yamato can't even appreciate what he has. You're selfish, Yamato.
Slaying a giant boar sounds very similar. Didn't Hercules have to kill a boar?
I wonder if the idea of a scared sword came from stories of excalibur, or did stories of excalibur come from the story seen here?
I didn't take many notes, because a lot of the stories were difficult to read but I enjoyed them all. Yamato is someone that, like many greek heroes, has good qualities and bad. He finds an ancient, power filled weapon to help him slay demons and monsters ans such.
The Labors of Yamato seem very similar to the seven tasks of hercules. I wonder which story came first and did the author draw inspiration from the other? Probably not, since these stories are so old. But that means that they were written without the knowledge of the existence of the other, so it is mere coincidence that they are so similar. That's really cool to thing about.
I googled Yamato and this is one of the things that popped up.
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| Yamato Battleship Link ] |
Bibliography:
Romance of Old Japan, Part I: Mythology and Legend by E. W. Champney and F. Champney (1917).
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