TOMINO HELL POEM

TOMINO HELL POEM

            This is a popular Japanese story, it is about a poem called "Tomino's Hell." They say that you should only read with your mind, and never out loud. If you were to read it out loud, then you must take responsibility for your actions. "Tomino's Hell" (トミノの地獄) is written by Yomota Inuhiko (四方田 犬彦) in a book called "The Heart is Like a Rolling Stone" (心は転がる石のように), And was included in Saizo Yaso's (西條 八十) 27th collection of poems in 1919. It's not sure how this rumor started, but there's only a warning that, "If you read this poem out loud, tragic things (凶事) will happen." It just looks like a curse. It asks to not compare this with the common "You'll grow taller" or even "My parents died." Do you get a sense of how dangerous this is?

This story used to be very popular in 2ch, and there were many people taking pictures and videos as proof and posting them on 2ch. There were many users that said that nothing happened, but there were also many posts that didn't have the user come back to post the results. I think it's scarier than someone posting that someone else got sick or that someone else passed away. But if you were to read it out loud, it's better to read it in Japanese rather than the translation.

トミノの地獄

Tomino no Jigoku (Tomino's Hell)

His older sister vomited blood, his younger sister vomited fire,

And the cute Tomino vomited glass beads.

Tomino fell into Hell alone,

Hell is wrapped in darkness and even the flowers don't bloom.

Is the person with the whip Tomino's older sister,

I wonder whose blood is on it?、

Hit, hit, without hitting,

Infinite Hell's one road.

kurai jigoku e anai wo tanomu,

Would you lead him to the dark Hell,

To the sheep of gold, to the bush warbler.

Fit as much as you can into the leather sack,

For the preparation of the journey in the familiar Hell.

Spring is coming even in the forest and the stream,

Even in the seven valley streams of the dark Hell.

The bush warbler in the birdcage, the sheep in the wagon,

Tears in the eyes of cute Tomino.

Cry, bush warbler, toward the raining forest

He shouts that he misses his little sister.

The crying echo reverberates throughout Hell,

The fox penoy blooms.

Circling around Hell's seven mountains and seven streams,

The lonely journey of cute Tomino.

If they're in Hell bring them to me,

The needle of the graves.

I won't pierce with the red needle,

In the milestones of little Tomino.