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| game          = FF4
| game          = FF4
| title          = Dr. Asou's Mask Research
| image          = [[Image:DrAsouMaskEnquiry.png|150px]]
| image          = [[Image:DrAsouMaskEnquiry.png|150px]]
| kanji          = 麻生博士の仮面考察
| kanji          = 麻生博士の仮面考察
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| author        = Dr. Kunihiko Asou
| author        = Dr. Kunihiko Asou
| chapter        = 2
| chapter        = 2
| location      = [[Rougetsu Hall]], [[Library (FF4)|Library]]
| location      = [[Rogetsu Hall]], [[Archive]]
| obtained      = In the mask display.
| obtained      = In the mask display.
| description    = A portion of Dr. Asou's notes. It's about a historical mask.
| description    = An old document about the masks of Rogetsu Isle.
| adddescription = Notes about a black mask.
| adddescription = It's a document about masks.
| related        = [[Dr. Asou's Note 1]], [[Dr. Asou's Note 2]], [[Dr. Asou's Note 3]], [[Dr. Asou's Account of the Festival]]
| related        = [[Professor Asou's Notes (1)]], [[Professor Asou's Notes (2)]], [[Professor Asou's Notes (3)]], [[Rogetsu Kagura Chronicle]]
| english        =  
| english        =  
On this [[Rogetsu Isle|island]], there is a [[Rougetsu Kagura|kagura]] performed during a [[lunar eclipse]].
A [[Rogetsu Kagura|Kagura]] festival is held on this [[Rogetsu Isle|island]] on the day of the [[lunar eclipse]]. On that day, they say that all living souls tend towards the underworld, and that the souls of the dead return from there.


It is believed that as this eclipse approaches the hearts of the living incline towards death and the souls of the dead return to the world of the living.
Since the moon symbolizes the soul here, the eclipse must be thought of as the consumption of the soul.


To a people for whom the moon represents the soul, an eclipse of the moon must have come to represent the erosion of the soul, as well.
I have read that the Rogetsu Kagura used to be performed using a mask called the [[Mask of the Lunar Eclipse]]. The document I read was very old and fragmented, but I ascertained from it that this black mask was said to have brought to the island a disaster known as the '''[[Day of Tranquility]]'''.


In my review of the literature, I found mentions of a mask which appears to no longer to be used in the kagura. It was called the "[[Mask of the Lunar Eclipse]]".
I asked the head of the island about this, but he told me with a fearful look on his face that no such thing ever existed.


What little I could find came from very old and fragmentary sources, but it was said to be a black mask that brought about a calamity known as the '''[[Day Without Suffering]]'''.
It seems this Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is something of a taboo subject here.


When I asked the head of the island about it, a look of terror befell his face and all he would say on the matter was that no such mask exists.
From what I have discovered, the mask is a dangerous artifact, but still, I wish I could have had the chance to take a look at it with my own eyes.


It would appear that broaching the subject is considered a serious taboo.
It could have been a great help in my investigations into the spirit world.
 
Even if the danger posed by this mask was real, I would have loved to examine it with my own eyes, just once.
 
It could have been the key to unlocking the secrets of the [[Other World]]...
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この島では、月蝕の日に神楽が行われる。
この島では、月蝕の日に神楽が行われる。
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強力な手がかりとなったかもしれない。
強力な手がかりとなったかもしれない。
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==Translation Notes==
The description for this file is, 「展示物についての注意書き。朧月島の面について書かれている。」, which reads, "Instructions (or precautionary notes) concerning the items on display. It describes the masks of Rogetsu Isle." This memo is found in a display case, but has nothing to do with the exhibits and provides no instructions or warnings, so this entry has been adjusted for clarity. One possible explanation for this oddity is that the memo found here was originally supposed to be the deleted draft [[✻ Note About Masks]].


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Latest revision as of 14:52, 16 March 2023

Prof. Asou's Mask Inquiries


Kanji 麻生博士の仮面考察
あそう はかせ の かめん こうさつ
Game Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
Author Dr. Kunihiko Asou
Chapter Phase II: Resonance
Located at Rogetsu Hall, Archive
Obtained In the mask display.
Description An old document about the masks of Rogetsu Isle.
Additional Description It's a document about masks.
Related Notes Professor Asou's Notes (1), Professor Asou's Notes (2), Professor Asou's Notes (3), Rogetsu Kagura Chronicle

A Kagura festival is held on this island on the day of the lunar eclipse. On that day, they say that all living souls tend towards the underworld, and that the souls of the dead return from there.

Since the moon symbolizes the soul here, the eclipse must be thought of as the consumption of the soul.

I have read that the Rogetsu Kagura used to be performed using a mask called the Mask of the Lunar Eclipse. The document I read was very old and fragmented, but I ascertained from it that this black mask was said to have brought to the island a disaster known as the Day of Tranquility.

I asked the head of the island about this, but he told me with a fearful look on his face that no such thing ever existed.

It seems this Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is something of a taboo subject here.

From what I have discovered, the mask is a dangerous artifact, but still, I wish I could have had the chance to take a look at it with my own eyes.

It could have been a great help in my investigations into the spirit world.

この島では、月蝕の日に神楽が行われる。

月蝕の日には、すべての生きた人の心が
死の側へと傾き、死者の魂が
黄泉からやってくるとされる。
島では月が魂を示すものであるため、
月蝕は魂が蝕まれると
考えられていたのだろう。
かつてこの島の神楽にて
「月蝕の面」という面が
使われたことがあったと文献で読んだ。
非常に古く、また断片的な文献であったが、
それは島に#r#「無苦の日」#という災厄を
もたらした黒い面だという。
 
島の長にも尋ねてみたが、
ひどくおびえた表情で
そのようなものは無かった
と言うのみであった。
島では、その面は触れてはならぬ
禁忌なのだろう。
たとえ危険であるにせよ、
ぜひ一度この目で見て、
調べてみたかった。
もしかしたら、異界へとつながる
強力な手がかりとなったかもしれない。

Documents
Dr. Asou's Notes - Notes from Madoka - Madoka's Notebook - Madoka's Diary - Letter to Madoka - Choshiro's Notebook - Ruka's Diary - Misaki's Diary - Torn Diary - Boy's Diary - Diary with Pictures - 2F Nurse's Logbook - 3F Nurse's Logbook - 4F Isolation Room Reports - On-Duty Nurse's Memo - Duty Nurse's Notes - Nurse's Notes - Tsubaki Tono's Diary - Assistant's Notes - Director Haibara's Notes - Black Notebook - Sayaka's Diary - Letter to Soya - Soya's Notes - Soya's Scribblings - Letter From Soya Yomotsuki - Sakuya's Diary - Note from Someone - Letter Dropped by Woman in Black - Kageri Sendo's Letters - Kaoru Sendou's Suicide Note - Yuko Magaki's Painting Notes - Patient Observation Record - Misaki Asou Treatment Notes - Ayako's Notes - Fragment of an Unsent Letter - Female Patient's Suicide Note - Construction Worker's Logbook - Scribbled Last Words - Woman's Suicide Note - Patient's Notes - Note Left by Islander - Note Left by Fisherman - Note by Court Guardian
Records
Memo to the New Nurse - Information Plaque - Memo with Code - Information About Lift - Room Assignment Lists - Medical Files - Post-Mortem Certificates - Hospital Notices - Film Incineration - Newspaper Articles - Rogetsu Island Tourism Brochure - "What is the Rogetsu Kagura?" - Rogetsu Kagura Film Record - "To Rogetsu Kagura Visitors" - Dr. Asou's Research - Moonlight Syndrome Research File - Moonlight Syndrome and the Moon - Informer's Report - Old Research Records - Bundle of Burned Letters - Rogetsu Island Tomes - Yomotsuki Documents - Tsukimori Documents - "On the Mask of the Lunar Eclipse" - "Coming of the Day of Tranquility"
Other
Basic Operation - Flashlight - Examining - Camera Obscura - Filament - Taking Hint Photos - Power-Up Lenses - Equipped Functions - Film - Spirit Stone Flashlight - Handbook - Menu - Saving - Blue Crystals - Red Crystals - Hozuki Dolls
Pictures
Control Panel - Code Echoing in Ears - Cradle - Five Masks - Five Maidens - Grandfather Clock Code - Hole in Floor - Misaki with Girl in Black - Old Score Shining on Wall - Smudged Faces - Photo Taken in Front of Infirmary - Photo of Girls - Photo of Man and Masks - Photo of Woman with no Face - Red Wheelchair - Room with Books - Vision of Oblivion - Screening - Mask with Charm - Hidden Doll
Voices
List of phone calls - Radio messages - List of tapes
Misc.
Unused Files