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10-31-2010, 07:37 AM
Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai
(A Gathering of One Hundred Supernatural Tales)
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The game was a simple one. In a room, as night fell, one hundred candles were lit. Guests and players gathered around the candles, taking turns telling kaidan. After each kaidan, a single candle was extinguished, and the room slowly grew darker and darker. The process was an evocation, with the final candle believed to summon a supernatural entity.
Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyakumonogatari_Kaidankai)
100 candles would be placed in a circle, and the players would each tell a ghoulish tale, often a story from their local village, or perhaps a more personal experience. As each tale ended, the storyteller would douse a single candle, the light slowly fading as the tension rose. The game was said to be a ritual of evocation, the expiration of each story and each candle summoning more spiritual energy, transforming the room into a beacon for the dead. With the vanishing of the final light, someone or something terrible would be waiting in the darkness.
While no one knows exactly how Hyakumonogatari Kaidan-kai came to be played, it is believed that the game was originally created by the samurai as a test of courage, to see who was brave enough to withstand the gruesome tales and who would succumb and shiver when the final light was doused.
A version of the game is described as early as in the kaidan-shu Tonoigusa (1660) which is also known as Otogi Monogatari (Nursery Tales). Written by Ansei Ogita (?-1669), Tonoigusa follows an innovative format, telling the story of several young samurai who get together to play Hyakumonogatari Kaidan-kai. Each tells a tale in succession and at the extinguishing of the final candle a giant hand appears to come down on them from above. With a quick swipe of a sword however, the hand is revealed to be the shadow of a spider and those who shuddered in fear are held up to mockery.
Source (http://hyakumonogatari.com/what-is-hyakumonogatari/)
In the tenth episode of the anime xxxHolic Yūko invites Watanuki, Doumeki and Himawari to the Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai.
In Season 2, Ep. 13 of the anime School Rumble, the students of 2-C can be seen playing the game throughout the episode.
An adaptation opens the anime series Ghost Hunt.
I got lazy so I use the mighty 3 Method
(A Gathering of One Hundred Supernatural Tales)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-AQa73BIBuM/SXVkeHV-lZI/AAAAAAAAC4w/msZvyhNyyb4/s400/burning_candle.jpg
The game was a simple one. In a room, as night fell, one hundred candles were lit. Guests and players gathered around the candles, taking turns telling kaidan. After each kaidan, a single candle was extinguished, and the room slowly grew darker and darker. The process was an evocation, with the final candle believed to summon a supernatural entity.
Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyakumonogatari_Kaidankai)
100 candles would be placed in a circle, and the players would each tell a ghoulish tale, often a story from their local village, or perhaps a more personal experience. As each tale ended, the storyteller would douse a single candle, the light slowly fading as the tension rose. The game was said to be a ritual of evocation, the expiration of each story and each candle summoning more spiritual energy, transforming the room into a beacon for the dead. With the vanishing of the final light, someone or something terrible would be waiting in the darkness.
While no one knows exactly how Hyakumonogatari Kaidan-kai came to be played, it is believed that the game was originally created by the samurai as a test of courage, to see who was brave enough to withstand the gruesome tales and who would succumb and shiver when the final light was doused.
A version of the game is described as early as in the kaidan-shu Tonoigusa (1660) which is also known as Otogi Monogatari (Nursery Tales). Written by Ansei Ogita (?-1669), Tonoigusa follows an innovative format, telling the story of several young samurai who get together to play Hyakumonogatari Kaidan-kai. Each tells a tale in succession and at the extinguishing of the final candle a giant hand appears to come down on them from above. With a quick swipe of a sword however, the hand is revealed to be the shadow of a spider and those who shuddered in fear are held up to mockery.
Source (http://hyakumonogatari.com/what-is-hyakumonogatari/)
In the tenth episode of the anime xxxHolic Yūko invites Watanuki, Doumeki and Himawari to the Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai.
In Season 2, Ep. 13 of the anime School Rumble, the students of 2-C can be seen playing the game throughout the episode.
An adaptation opens the anime series Ghost Hunt.
I got lazy so I use the mighty 3 Method