It is said that “Tomino’s Hell” was created when Saijō was 27 years old, and the inspiration came after experiencing a great loss of either his father or sister, nothing more than that. I did come upon a possible inspiration behind the poem and the age he was when he created it. I wanted to do further research on the artist himself, but there was not much about him in English. If you are not familiar, Saijō was a known Japanese poet who worked on children’s nursery rhymes and popular song lyrics. If you are wondering who was behind the creation of such a dark, witty, and eerie urban legend, his name was Saijō Yaso. Rumor has it that if you read the poem out loud, you will either die or your soul will suffer eternally in hell. That is to say, whatever would be considered ”too scary to handle” for someone else, whether that is being in the pitch-black dark, summoning an evil spirit like (bloody Mary) in the mirror, or talking to the dead people through a vintage, badly curved ouija board, I am the first to explore it.Ī few weeks ago, I was lucky to stumble across a Japanese poem called “Tomino’s Hell” released in 1919 and recorded in the poetry collection Sakin. Not only that, but it also triggers a fear from within and brings curiosity out of me, which is why I am always eager to experience and search for more. To me, horror meant-and still (as an adult) is-a somewhat unpleasant excitement of emotion. The creative, introverted child with an uncanny obsession for horror. As a kid, I was always the eccentric one out of the bunch.
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