Depending on just how deep the theming goes, I'm almost definitely going to get some part of it wrong, but since the book itself apparently hasn't been translated to English, (most of) you can't prove it!
Depending on just how deep the theming goes, I'm almost definitely going to get some part of it wrong, but since the book itself apparently hasn't been translated to English, (most of) you can't prove it!
What book is that? Is that where these quotations on seeing the Buddha, Manjusri, et al but no torii come from?
What book is that? Is that where these quotations on seeing the Buddha, Manjusri, et al but no torii come from?
Satori said:
It's styled after a theory regarding this novel "Dogura Magura"... the "fetus dream theory". It's a peculiar book, but she really liked it.
While I can find some very basic descriptions of the book and its central themes online, I'm afraid I can't say what exactly is a quote from where. The idea of Buddha, Manjusri et al being the judges of the afterlife is a more general Buddhist concept, but I don't know if they appear in the book somehow. As for the fetus dream theory, it's (surprise) a theory that the whole book is a dream had by an unborn fetus, which was probably a lot more innovative and less eye-rolly back in 1935 when the book came out.
*flap...*
W-Wait, could it be...!
This time, she's been sending me these letters.
One each week...
I become a lizard and
spin through the air.
*blab blab blab*
...Oh my, you've been getting weekly letters from Minamitsu-san as well?
And they're themed around reincarnation?
Exactly like Koishi's, then...
*blab blab blab*
Riiight...
What does your sister write about?
*take*
The size and material of the letters is the same...
The pen they used and the design on the back seem to match too...
I dare say...
Minamitsu-san and Koishi are traveling together.
It's styled after a theory regarding this novel "Dogura Magura"... the so-called 'fetus dream theory'.
It's a peculiar book, but she really liked it.