Comparing the Similarities and Differences between "Take Tori Tale" and "Kaguya Ji Monogatari"

Magnus 2022-01-06 08:02:35

The 22 awakening poems by Ming Luo Nian'an, the 40 poems about living in the mountains by Zen Master Ming Yantang, and the fifteen fantasy poems by Qinghu Dachuan are my favorite three groups of "group poems", and none of them are fine. Among them, the most down-to-earth is Hu Dachuan's fantasy poems. The fifteen poems basically explain people's delusions or dreams in the most beautiful language, and they are chanted repeatedly, and they are still fresh.

The ups and downs have not been strong enough, and the World Net only feels pity for themselves. There should be no country of bliss in the whole world, how can there be a sad world in Jiuxiao?
Boring and thinking, the comfort is really lifelike. Whoever understands the past and the present are all illusions, and Dahuai lingers in the south.

Vientiane in the middle of the reflection, thinking of Liezi Yufengxing. Going up the poor blue and falling down three thousand realms, looking down at the 200 Chinese City.
In the month, I beg for the elixir, and the view in the cave is very bad. I only worry about the high place to clear the emptiness, but also provoke melancholy and gloomily.

These first two songs are also appropriate for this story. The animated film "Kaguya Hime Monogatari" is adapted from Japan's earliest monogatari work "Taketori Monogatari". The overall adaptation is very successful, but the ending and the intention are not as good as the original.
In the animation, the Buddha is attracted by the gods in the original. In Japan, a country where Shinto and Buddhism are parallel, the people ask God for life and Buddha for death, so Amitabha's take to the world of bliss is something that people can't expect. Once he dies, the wisdom of Buddha will be restored, and there is no way to resurrect If you don’t give up, the Buddha has nowhere to go. However, the enlightenment of heaven and human beings is still in the six realms, not out of the three realms, enjoying the heavenly blessings, and falling into the five interesting things. If this is not the director's intellectual error, it is that ordinary people both hate the impermanence and turbidity of the world, but also can't bear the loneliness of "blue sea and blue sky at night". This sentiment is so long in Japanese literary works, and some modern Chinese fairy tales, including Jin Yong’s martial arts, have failed to surpass this kind of loneliness and thinking, but in the end it points to love or "this hate is endless. Expect". These works mostly quoted Buddhist knowledge such as the Six Paths of Reincarnation or impermanence, and were reluctant to think deeply. "Shen Wen thinks about Buddha's wisdom for a hundred thousand times, and is unpredictable with his divine power." Sheng Wen has not yet developed Bodhicitta, let alone ordinary people! Does Buddhism teach people to endure loneliness, but the prerequisite for transcendence is to develop bodhichitta, which is the fundamental. If the foundation is not established, you will only worry about the sky.
In the original work, Kaguya Ji gave the elixir to the emperor when he left, and the emperor burned it on the grounds that "Kueyaji can no longer see Kaguya and the elixir of immortality". Basically, good literary works are about people's idiots. In the eyes of the world, burning medicine is foolish. Why don't you ask for medicine? According to Buddhism, the so-called immortality is just to live longer, up to 84,000 catastrophes, and longevity is one of the eight difficulties in the Buddha's eyes, which is not a good thing. Therefore, the Buddha shows the way. Only practice and seek the way of the Buddha can solve the major issues of life and death in stages and variant life and death. In these realms, there is no life or death, so longevity. From the moral point of view, the section on burning medicine means that you can't let go of love and hatred (the longing for Kaguyaji), and you can't live without life (the medicine of immortality), because the root of the cycle of life and death is attachment.
The narrative of "Take Tori Tale" is calm, with neither persuasive preaching nor infatuation tendency. But what the movie reflects is a lingering complex. The animation fictionalizes a rural boy named Samaru, handsome and brave. On the one hand, life on the earth still has something to remember, and on the other hand, it can be contrasted with the five ugly princes. If the five suitors in the Jade Tower of the Golden Temple are showing the filth, weakness and pitifulness of human nature, then the life of the hut with Samaru seems to be a happy and flawless life. The director said through the mouth of Kaguya Ji: "What is filthy! Whether it is joy or sadness, the lives of all beings on this earth exude brilliance, birds, insects, beasts, trees, flowers, and human touch..." However, think carefully. Otherwise, at least for the pheasant that was hunted down, the end of life is full of horror. There are more than just killings of creatures in the world. As a human being at the top of the food chain, it is selfish to say this. And this is precisely the limited cycle that most modern writers and artists who are unwilling to degenerate but unforgettable cannot break through-when they want to embrace the world, they often feel filthy and hate the evil of human greed and hate; they want to stay away from the world. At that time, without mentioning the ugliness and the beauty of the world’s imperfections. Very regrettable! In fact, the moving highest point of the work is not beauty and magnificence, but emptiness (such as "A Dream of Red Mansions"); it is not perfection and poignancy, but perfection (such as "The New Testament"). "Take Tori Tale" itself is handled very well, Kaguya Ji, at the urging of the unkindness of heaven and humanity, calmly bid farewell to "parents" and the emperor, following the world's conditions. And because "Bamboo Tale" does not confuse the great difference between the Tao of Heaven and the Tao of Buddhism: the Tao of Heaven is pure and filthy, and guards a beautiful realm, while the Tao of Buddhism is pure and filthy. "Therefore, we can see the bliss of Sapo and other bliss, and we must return to the five turbidities, so that all sentient beings can obtain ultimate wisdom and happiness without suffering. Therefore, Kaguyaji’s dissatisfaction with the Dao of Heaven can be interpreted as dissatisfaction with the heavens and humans. Tell her to stay in this sordid place"). "Return my true face, there is still a lover in the world", but is Hui Ye Ji, like Cangyang Gyatso, who should be saved by love, that is, love? According to the "Qi Shi Jing", people originally came from Guangyin Tian. Because of their greed for the "smell of the earth" on the earth, they gradually developed various senses of discrimination, lust, hatred, and so on. The way of heaven is not constant, but unlike the evil of humanity, which is full of greed and greed, the evil of heavenly beings is the slow-heartedness of the so-called lowly beings.
What impressed me deeply is also a Japanese doll animation film-"Book of the Dead" by Kihachiro Kawamoto. The woman did not lose her righteous thoughts when she appeared in her predecessor's karma. She understands that to truly love someone is not to infect him, but to save him to Buddhahood. This is a work that breaks through the cycle of love and obsession. However, if you are addicted to such works, you will be trapped in this cycle again, but "the dream is said to be double imaginary". It should be noted that demons are pervasive. Finally, it ends with Luo Zhuangyuan's poem.

Seeing through the red dust is like a new bird making up an old nest. In the end, it was hard and hard, and the whole life went by waves in vain.
It is empty first to accumulate tens of thousands of gold, and the fight for fame and fortune is vain. Everything is like a dream, why not look back and read Amitabha.

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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya quotes

  • The Princess Kaguya: [singing] Go round, come round, come round... come round, oh distant time. Come round, call back my heart. Come round, call back my heart. Birds, bugs, beasts, grass, trees, flowers. Teach me how to feel. If i hear that you pine for me, i will return to you.