Sept 14th - 8:00 pm:
In the materials Tomoe gathered for me, there's a paragraph about five pieces of mirror passed down through the Himuro family for generations. These pieces were said to seal off the Hell Gate and protect the region from a great disaster. They might have something to do with the current hellish situation. Five holy mirrors in shrines around the area all broke in a small earthquake the other day.
When I heard about it, it gave me the idea for this next work of mine. I think I brought a news article about it with me when I came here. It says there were only five holy mirrors in existence. But according to some legends, there is another - the True Holy Mirror.
The folklorist also mentions this in his research documents, the one I found here in the mansion. (I think I dropped the research when I was trying to escape that cursed woman.) Here are my theories. I think that the five mirrors that were destroyed in the earthquake the other day had the role of 'watching over' the True Holy Mirror. I don't think it was the earthquake that broke the five holy mirrors in the shrines. I think it was the signal that the seal on the Hell Gate that the Himuro True Holy Mirror provides had broken for some reason. The five mirrors were trying to warn us.
Black Notebook Scrap 5
Black Notebook Scrap 5 | |
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| Kanji | 黒い手帳の断片 五 くろいてちょうのだんぺん |
| Game | Fatal Frame |
| Author | Junsei Takamine |
| Chapter | 1st Night: The Strangling Ritual |
| Located at | Backyard |
| Obtained | On top of gravestone |
| Description | Novelist Takamine's Notes 5 - Holy Mirror, mystery of the mansion |
| Additional Description | On top of the gravestone is a piece of a notebook in a plastic bag. |
| Related Notes | Black Notebook Scrap 1, Black Notebook Scrap 2, Black Notebook Scrap 3, Black Notebook Scrap 4, & Black Notebook Scrap 6 |
９月１４日 ２０：００
巴くんが集めてくれた資料の中に、
氷室家に伝わる五枚の鏡についての一節がある。
その鏡は、この地方の災厄をはらい、
異界との門を封じる、とされている。
この異常事態の原因は、その鏡ではないか。
先日の小さな地震で、この地方にある
５つの神社の御神鏡が全て壊れた。
私が今回の作品を思いついたのも、そ
の出来事を知ったことがきっかけだ。
たしか、持ってきた資料の中に新聞記
事が入っていたはずだ。
現存する御神鏡は五枚、とされている
が、一部の伝承にはもう一枚、「本体」
の鏡が存在すると言われる。
屋敷内でみつけた、民俗学者の研究書
にも、そういう記述があった。
（その研究書は、あの女から逃れる間に、
どこかで落してしまったようだが）
ここからは、私の推論になる。
先日、地震で破壊されたと言う、その
五枚の鏡は、本体の鏡を「監視」する役
割だったのでは、ということだ。
五枚の鏡が割れた原因は、地震などで
はなく、本体である「氷室御神鏡」の封
印が、何らかの理由で壊れた印であり、
その事を我々に知らせる警鐘だったの
ではないか。
Note
- There is a possible error in the English translation. Takamine refers to "five pieces of mirror" passed down through the Himuro family. In the Japanese text, this is simply "five mirrors" (五枚の鏡). He appears to be referring to the mirrors in the five peripheral shrines, as the mirror was not in pieces until the Calamity and, after that, there was no Himuro family to pass the pieces down through. Though he lost the relevant news clipping and research scrap by Ryozo Munakata, he infers that the shrine mirrors "watched over" the seal from the "main mirror" and warned if it was broken. He does not appear to know that the mirror itself is broken (which may be why Hirasaka's ghost is insistent that Miku "tell him". However, this is possibly contradicted by the guidebook, which states, "Takamine had determined that the only way to be rid of the curse was to return the Holy Mirror, broken into five pieces, to its previous state, and set about doing so with all of his might."[1]