Shimoamazu I
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| Shimoamazu I | |||||
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| Japanese Name | 初代シモアマズ |
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| Weapon |  Artifact
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| Race | Beast | ||||
| Nationality |  Nishiki
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| Birthday | April 1 | ||||
| Constellation | Aries | ||||
| Talents | All forms of sorcery | ||||
| Likes | Straw dolls | ||||
| Dislikes | Nothing in particular | ||||
| Strengths | To be unfazed by anything | ||||
| Weaknesses | Lack of interest in other people | ||||
| Hobbies | Weaving straw dolls, Playing with straw dolls | ||||
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Shimoamazu. Musume is Shimoamazu the Second. Haha is Shimoamazu the First. Come from Mt. Ooe. Is good at playing with straw dolls. Is even better at sorcery.
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[Ooe Big Four's Sorceress] Shimoamazu I | 2023 September 28 | [The Athletic Meet of Five Countries] Event Reward |
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[Naive Spartan Sorceress] Shimoamazu I | 2023 September 28 | [The Athletic Meet of Five Countries] Event Reward |
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[Death Squad's Great Hero] Shimoamazu I | 2024 March 22 | [Altar of Judgement - Guardian Stone Statue Gargoyle] Event Reward |
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[From Mt. Ooe With Sorcery] Shimoamazu I | 2023 September 28 | 3rd Anniversary Limited Gacha 3 |
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Shimoamazu I is a beastkin woman mentioned by name in Main Story Arcs 1 and 2, but made her first appearance in Shimoamazu-no-Iwato Episode.
Shimoamazu I is known as the strongest sorceress in Nishiki, and is a disciple of Ooenomiya and the sole surviving member of the original Ooe Big Four after the Great Daiyaki incident of Mount Ooe. She is the mother of Shimoamazu II, whom she calls her "Haha", which is Japanese for "Mother", and "Musume" being "Daughter".
Shimoamazu I is the only known sorceress to reach Counting Curse Nine as an attempt to save her Shishou Ooenomiya and forced to seal Daiyaki into Amanohashidate instead, and she would have died in the process had she finished Curse Ten to completely kill off Daiyaki.
Main Story
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Back in the earlier years, when the kijin race were still under racial persecution and treatment by the country of Nishiki due to their mistaken identity as the oni, the Great Daiyaki Disaster nearly destroyed Mount Ooe, and by extension the entire country. Daiyaki is an oni monster spawned from the Phantom Mist, an oni so large that it could grab a human being with one hand. He is the strongest and worst oni in Nishiki's history. The incident occurred during a ceremony at the foot of Mount Ooe. A divine beast priest couple had given birth to a child named Amanohashidate, and Ooenomiya was praying for the child's growth when the barrier warding temple was suddenly hit by a huge, evil Phantom Mist. What emerged from the Mist was a gigantic oni so large that it could grab a human being with one hand. Guardians of the temple, and Amano's parents were killed by the oni. While Ooenomiya is able to fight on equal footing, she is unable to stop Daiyaki from taking Amano away. Thus Ooenomiya brought her original Ooe Big Four to save the child. Two more of her closest friends, Futamata I and Karakawa I died in the struggle, but they managed to slay Daiyaki. However, Daiyaki's posthumous curse attempted to possess Ooenomiya to become Daiyaki the Second. In a panic, Shimoamazu I used a forbidden art of sorcery to redirect Daiyaki's soul and sealed it inside Amanohashidate instead, the very child that they wanted to save. Realizing what she has done, her personality has changed ever since, and Ooenomiya described her as 'gloomy, and not quite right'. To repent for her sins and her inability to sacrifice herself instead of Amano, despite being the best sorceress in Nishiki, she sealed herself away inside a rock cave called Shimoamazu-no-Iwato for the remainder of her life to undergo intense training. The Iwato's barriers are purposely weakened on purpose so that she can constantly fight against Mist Monsters alone. After resolving the Hinayashiki incident on Senbon Torii during the Hinayashiki episode, Shimoamazu I succumbed to the recoil and backlash from Yuuzen's counter-curse that allowed her to cast sorcery despite the curse casted on her by Miyako's mother, and suffered from Sorceryal injuries severe enough that she has to be relived temporarily from military tasks. Yuuzen noted to the protagonist Conductor to take Shimoamazu I to meet Shimoamazu I and have her examined and treated or her life will be in danger. Shimoamazu I was asked by Shimoamazu I to 'play' with her straw dolls before she can begin the treament. Shimoamazu I noticed that the enchantments on the straw dolls are very well protected by barriers and she was unable to budge the dolls nor undo the sorcery casted on the dolls even with her full power. By the end of the Voltarja Celestial Sphere incident, Shimoamazu I has fully recovered and the Special Steel Squad went up Mount Ooe to visit her. The team was subjected to Shimoamazu I's child pranks, most notably Yakutsk with birdlime traps. The traps are simply built and very child-like in nature, but Miyako is surprised to find that very powerful arts are applied to such childlish tricks. Because of Shimoamazu I's appearance and behaviour, the Special Steel Squad was unable to believe that Shimoamazu I is Shimoamazu's's mother, and is the other way around instead, much to the latter's displeasure. Yet, her Sorceryal ability was so high that Miyako was frightened by the amount she unleashed intentionally temporarily when she was asked about the birdlime trap, as if she faced one of the strongest monsters ever. It was later discovered that the only reason Shimoamazu-no-Iwato is not dangerous is precisely because it was Shimoamazu I's very own Sorcery suppressing the Mist from completely covering the entire cave. She was unable to assist the Special Steel Squad directly with the Mist inside her room, the Haha's Chamber as she has to still keep the Mist stayed inside her room while the Special Steel Squad attempts to take out the source. After the Chasm inside Haha's Chamber has been dealt with and the incident resolved, Shimoamazu I enlightened Miyako on how to be stronger, and gifted her a black straw doll. |
Trivia
- Shimoamazu-no-Iwato is a direct reference to Ama-no-Iwato, which both mother and daughter are themed after.
- Shimoamazu I's beast motif is the Japanese wolf, just like her daughter.
- Her insistence to hide inside the rock cave for intense training is a homage to Amaterasu hiding inside Ama-no-Iwato, the mythological and divine rock cave as a wolf.
- While Shimoamazu I also likes dolls like her daughter, she prefers the straw doll variety, called wara-ningyou. Wara ningyou are used extensively as wards against evil. During the Heian period, wara ningyō would be placed along the sides of the roads for protection against plague. It was hoped that the evil spirits which brought disease would nest in the straw bodies instead of living human bodies. Afterwards, the straw dolls would be discarded into a river, which would also purify the evil spirits.
- Special Skill writes "呪詛一つ 死鬼転呪殺 怨呪殺 (Juso Hitotsu, Shikiten Jusatsu, On jusatsu)", translates into "Curse One - Death demon turned curse killing, Vengeance curse killing." Showcasing her ability to be one of the few sorceresses that knows Counting Curse, the others being Yuuzen and Maki, and to an extent Miyako.
- Shimoamazu I is the only playable character in the game that is a formerly married, now widowed person. Her husband has perished in the battle of Daiyaki in lore.
Counterpart
Shimo-Amazu Station (下天津駅) was a former station on the Hokutan Railway, formerly located in Shimo-Amazu, Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The station was opened in 1923 to coincide with the opening of the Hokutan Railway. This station is abandoned and stripped after 1974.
From 1942 during the Pacific War, the Hokutan Railway started a gravel mining business near this station, and gravel from the Yura River was transported by railway and used for military purposes, including the construction of Fukuchiyama Airfield (Ishihara Airfield). The largest amount of gravel was transported in 1944, when the total amount of freight transported on the entire Hokutan Railway line was approximately 120,000 tonnes. The Hokutan Railway company ceased operations in March 1971 and was permitted to close at the end of February 1974, and this station was also closed at that time.
Shimo-Amazu Station was an above-ground station with platforms touching the ground. It had one platform, with a small station building and a pull-in line to the sawmill and was the second largest station on the Hokutan Railway after Fukuchiyama Nishi Station. The station itself is unattended. During the Pacific War, a pull line to collect gravel from the Yura River branched off from a point about 300 metres south of this station and ran along the bed of the Yura River until it reached the Sakaki River.
A transport shop and a specific post office were placed in front of the station, and the station was heavily used. The station was located to the east of Shimotenzu Station on the Kyoto Tango Railway Miyafuku Line, which opened after the closure of the Hokutan Railway line. The surrounding area is rural and no remains of the station remain [16]. The railway line from Kamitianjin Station to this station was laid along National Road No. 175, and the asphalt road that went down from the national road to the station remains after the station was abolished. In addition, the remains of a bridge are still in place in the northern part of the station. Wikipedia
Ama-no-Iwato (天の岩戸, literally "heaven's rock cave") is a cave in Japanese mythology. According to the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) and the Nihon Shoki, the bad behavior of Susano'o, the Japanese god of storms, drove his sister Amaterasu into the Ama-no-Iwato cave. The land was thus deprived of light.
Takachiho is the site of one of the best known legends of Japanese mythology. In the story, Amaterasu, the Shinto sun goddess, became so outraged by her brother's cruel pranks that she hid herself in a cave, refusing to come out and depriving the world of her life-giving light. All of the other gods and goddesses gathered to lure her out. They tried everything they could think of to no avail until one goddess performed an outrageously ribald dance that caused the other gods to roar with laughter. Amaterasu left the cave to see what all the fun was about, and in doing so she returned her light to the world.
The main shrine called Higashihongu and a hall of worship called Nishihongu (west hall) face each other across the Iwato River gorge. The Amano Iwato cave is an object of worship in festivals and is a rock cave on the other side of the Iwato River from Nishihongu. The cave can been seen from Nishihongu after participating in a Shinto ritual for purification. Photography of any kind is prohibited. The grounds contain many plants and old trees. There are also rare ancient ginkgo and michelia compressa trees, which have been considered sacred in Japan since ancient times. Japan-Guide
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