Tomino’s Hell A Cursed Japanese Poem that Must Not Be Read

Elder sister vomits blood, younger sister's breathing fire while sweet little Tomino just spits up the jewels.2 All alone does Tomino go falling into that hell, a hell of utter darkness, without even flowers. Is Tomino's big sister the one who whips him? The purpose of the scourging hangs dark in his mind.3 Lashing and thrashing him, ah! But never quite shattering. One sure path to Avici.. The poem reveals that Tomino is headed to "mugen jigoku," the Japanese translation of the Sanskrit "Avīci," or "waveless." Avīci is the lowest of hells in Buddhism, one whose torments last so long (aeons and eons) that souls seem to be trapped there for eternity.

Discover the haunting history behind this cursed poemOut of all the creepy stories and poems floating around the internet, "Tomino's Hell" is one of the best known. The 1919 poem is about a young man's journey through hell, fueled by his.. A dozen years ago, I produced a translation of Saijō Yaso's 1919 poem "Tomino no Jigoku" ("Tomino's Hell"), motivated in part by its strange afterlife as a bit of creepypasta—an Internet "cursed poem." At the time, I aimed to bring clarity and coherence to a text that had often been rendered into English in ways that obscured its imagery and narrative. Since then, however, I.