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Updated: July 18, 2025
It was just as lonesome as if we had been a thousand leagues from land. And in that weirdness we were told some very lonesome things by an ancient mariner who found leisure join us among the water-melons. He talked of the Hotoke-umi and the ill-luck of being at sea on the sixteenth day of the seventh month.
And wakening, I heard in the night the muttering of the real sea the vast husky speech of the Hotoke-umi the Tide of the Returning Ghosts. NOTHING is more silent than the beginning of a Japanese banquet; and no one, except a native, who observes the opening scene could possibly imagine the tumultuous ending.
Woe to all on board should an entire tago be suffered to fall even by accident into the sea! for the dead would at once use it to fill and sink the ship. Nor are the dead the only powers invisible dreaded in the time of the Hotoke-umi. Then are the Ma most powerful, and the Kappa.
For on that day the sea is the highway of the dead, who must pass back over its waters to their mysterious home; and therefore upon that day is it called Hotoke-umi the Buddha-Flood the Tide of the Returning Ghosts.
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