The Shadowspring Tale

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The Shadowspring Tale


Kanji 黒キ澤の伝承
くろき さわ の でんしょう
Game Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water
Author Keiji Watarai
Chapter Final Drop: Bride from Black Water
Located at Kurosawa's Antiques, Store
Obtained On the counter
Description A book that was left on the store counter at some point. It's about a folktale from Mt. Hikami.
Additional Description It's a book about an old legend. It looks like it was written by the folklorist, Keiji Watarai.
Related Notes

They say on Mt. Hikami:

"The Shadowspring is here,

but it is on the other side."

It is a curious saying. It must mean that the spring is both of this world and yet not of this world.

The Black Water flows from the Shadowspring. Within it lies the underworld itself.

For centuries the shrine maidens have protected the Shadowspring, believing it to be a bridge between worlds.

Tales abound of such bridges.

Are there people all over the country protecting these bridges as Mt. Hikami does, by drowning shrine maidens?

Perhaps Ose Kurosawa, the last Immortal Flower, was one such sacrifice.

日上山に伝わる言葉がある。

みやまにくろきさわありにし

あるいはこのよのばしょにはあらぬ

不思議な言葉だ。
山にあるという「くろきさわ」。それは、
この世にあって、この世のものではない、
ということなのだろうか。


黒キ澤からあふれ出る夜泉。
夜のように漆黒の泉。
その中は黄泉そのものだ。

日上山の巫女たちは、古くから「黒キ澤」
つまり、現世と隠世との境界である水際を
守ってきた。

この国には、各地に黄泉との境界が
存在するという伝承が伝わっている。


とすれば、各地にある黄泉との境界には、
この日上山の黒キ澤を沈める巫女のように、
境界を守る人々が存在するのではないか。

最後の永久花、黒澤逢世は、その一人
だったのかもしれない。

Collected Items
Letter from Fuyuhi - Fuyuhi's Notes - Messy Notes - Suicide Note - Haruka's Notes - Drenched Note - Notes from Miku - The Doll Memorial - Shrine of Dolls - Folklorist's Notes - Water-design Journal - Dr. Aso's Records - Book Next to the Hair - Shiragiku's Journal - Notes Left Behind - Yuri's Notebook - Rui's Journal - Hisoka's Letter - Hisoka's Journal - Kazuya's Notes - Note from Miu - Note from Ren - Black Diary - White Diary - Bloodstained Notes - Lost Item Case Files - Missing Persons Reports - Yuri's Report - The Art of Shadow Reading - Mt. Hikami's Downfall - The Deathly Mountain - Suicide at Mt. Hikami - Unfinished Manuscript - The Maiden Slayer - Cave-in Record - The Veiled House (Report) - Local Customs - Tales of Photography - The Ghost Marriage - The Female Perspective - Tales of the Sunset - Shrine on the Water - In the Reliquaries - On the Shadowborn - Ghost Brides - Water & Mt. Hikami - Water, Life, and Death - The Shadowspring Tale - Writings on Glancing - The Immortal Flower - Mt. Hikami's Strictures - Tainted Waters - The Shadow-touched - On Flamekeepers - On Choosing a Bride - On Bridehood - Regarding Bridegrooms - The Black Reliquaries - The Three Pillars - The Taboo of Glancing - Opening Reliquaries - On the Mountain's Cry - The Rear Shrine - Dedication - Note from a Tent - Sunken Note - Crumpled Note - Apparent Suicide Note - Deteriorating Note - Keiji's Cassettes - Call from a Client