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Daji, downfall of the Shang Empire The last king of the Shang Dynasty in China was brought low by his love for a cruel and beautiful concubine named Daji. After his death, the soldiers who caught and executed Daji were stunned to discover that she was no mortal woman, but a fox. Tamamo-no-Mae, the fox who tried to kill an emperor According to some tales, the evil Chinese concubine Pao Sze/Pao-Ssu escaped her fate and fled to Japan, where she became a court lady named Tamamo-no-Mae and captured the heart of Emperor Toba. When he began to sicken, suspicious courtiers hatched a plot. They discovered that the elegant Lady Tamamo was a fox in disguise, and chased her across Nasuno Moor until she changed herself into a stone. The stone, the Sesshoseki, or Killing Stone, was so imbued with the fox's evil that it killed all who approached it. The
Death Stone Kuzunoha, the fox of Shinoda Wood The fox-maiden Kuzunoha served the human man Yasuna as a loving wife and mother, until she was discovered and had to leave behind her human life. Her son, Abe no Seimei, became a famous Taoist sorceror, and was to later free Tamamo-no-Mae from the Sesshoseki. Genkuro, filial son Kitsune, first fox-wife in Japan |
