陰陽座の日本人のファンの皆様へ：
タスケテクダサイ
part 1 - zeuslist
- ayako - driving somewhere w/my friend and her toddler in the backseat we get past the 5 min point of this and my friend’s like, “so uh the lady’s like fine right, she’s not singing about getting raped or something hahaha” me: nervous laughter as I click skip
- kumikyoku kurotsuka ~ adachigahara - (and part 2 kumikyoku kurotsuka ~kikoku shuushuu)
- kumikyoku yoshitsune ~akki hougan
- kumikyoku yoshitsune ~muma enjou
- kumikyoku yoshitsune ~raise kaikou
this whole thing is so emotional to me. my fav is the long 2nd part, i love muma enjou. but also including all three of the parts in ur list is whwere i got jealous on the behalf of the other kumikyokus . lol
- kumikyoku kyuubi ~ tamamonomae
THE INDESTRUCTIBLE NINETAILS PART ONE
sexy song with kuroneko lead, matatabi bg chorus
ur new foxy girlfriend is soooo hot and smart, relevant wikipedia quote:
The fox stayed quiet for some time. Then she appeared in Japan as Tamamo-no-Mae, the most favoured courtesan of Emperor Konoe. She was said to be a most beautiful and intelligent woman, being able to answer any question asked.
transition to PART TWO ~shoumakyou - guitars have started sounding sinister 
when Sailor Neptune aims her enemy-revealing mirror at ur gf lol
matatabi and kuroneko sound so good arguing against each other, whose side will you take?!?!
She caused the Emperor to be extremely ill and was eventually exposed as a fox spirit by the astrologer Abe no Yasuchika, who had been called to diagnose the cause of the Emperor’s poor health.
wild allegations 
transition to PART THREE ~Sesshouseki, relevant wikipedia quote:
According to the otogi-zōshi, when the nine-tailed fox was killed by the famous warrior named Miura-no-suke, her body became the Sessho-seki. Later, a Buddhist priest called Genno stopped for a rest near the stone and was threatened by the spirit of Tamamo-no-Mae. Genno performed exorcism rituals and begged the spirit to consider her salvation. Tamamo-no-Mae relented and swore never to haunt the stone again.
and thats where the song ends, however,.,.,
It was reported on March 5, 2022 that the stone had split into two parts, likely as a result of natural weathering. Some netizens expressed their fear of the exorcised Kitsune. On 26 March 2022, the local government had priests host a ceremony to appease the spirit and pacify the beast at the site with prayers, offerings, and waving haraegushi upon the split rock.
- hitokabemaru - i weirdly have never looked into this one before even tho i’m so into fuujin/raijin
i will linkdrop now that it’s on my mind (and im so grateful for this place to archiv e my mind as i go nuts btw):
mttb blog spells out the guy’s name in hiragana (extremely helpful lol, the machine translate spells it wrong EVERYWHERE else) and describes the person as someone who met an untimely death as a “beautiful young man” (i’ll put the post below):
「人首丸」2014.09.22 Monday
攘夷の名のもとに非業の死をとげた、まつろわぬ民の美少年“人首丸（ひとかべまる）”を題材にした楽曲です。人首丸を本気で掘り下げようと思ったら、組曲仕立てで大作が書けてしまいそうな物語があるわけですが、今回のこの楽曲では敢えて一族の誇りを賭して果敢に闘う様とその意志のみを抽出し、それを直接的に音にすることでシンプルな楽曲に仕上げました。人首丸の父親は “悪路王”であるとする説が有力だそうですが、「道理で！」と膝を打ってしまうような、そんな楽曲です。親父の背中を見て息子が育つということでしょう！
この曲はとにかく突進するギターリフとその原動力たる強力なドラムが聴き所ですが、招鬼・狩姦のギターソロがめちゃくちゃ格好良いです。それぞれの持ち味を前面に押し出しながら、最後の一人になるまで戦い抜こうとする一族の結束や覚悟がビンビン伝わってきます。
そしてヴォーカルパートはほとんど咆哮のみ、という感じなので「これは黒猫不在か？」と思ってしまうと思いますが、リードヴォーカルではなくサブ的な叫び声の中に猫が3匹（3箇所）隠れていますので、是非探してみてください。黒猫が、ライヴでたまに信じられないほどブルータルな叫び声を発することがあるということを知っている方なら、よく聴けば見つけられると思いますよ。
| 楽曲解説 | 16:45
so that description really matches the way this song sounds so wild and agressive, right.
on the japanese wikipedia he’s currently a paragraph on his dad’s (?) page, (matatabi did write “like father like son” in the post).
IDK how to link specific sections from wikipedia, right now it’s under “Iwate Prefecture” 岩手県 → “The Legend of Hitokabemaru” 人首丸伝説
from the first line of the wiki page i have a feeling they are remembered as “oni” 
- susanoo
matatabi comments about how this guy is perceived with a lot of opposing traits, so it just fits onmyouza’s brand lol. also 7 string guitar.
due to reasons, i am least familiar with the two most recent albums and i havent obssesed over them yet and still need to read matatabi’s blog , w atch the lives, read the lyrics, etc etc to return to proper Fanatic status
- (i still dont know pronunciation, tesso something thanks to this thread op) this song sounds cool and i knew nothing about it until I read matatabi’s wall of text.
- Shiramine - this section of blog post, he says he’s referencing a chapter in a book with this title. i’m not familiar with any of this on first glance
白峯 from 『龍凰童子』全曲概要解説
江戸時代に上田秋成によって書かれた読本『雨月物語』の一篇「白峯」は、西行法師が讃岐国の崇徳院の陵墓を参拝した際に崇徳院の亡霊と出会い、和歌と言説によって議論する物語ですが、この楽曲「白峯」は、その『雨月物語』の「白峯」を原典として完全音楽化を目指したものです。日本三大怨霊にも名を連ねる崇徳院は、かねてよりいつか必ず楽曲の題材にすると決めていた人物ですが、史実をもとにその一生を詳らかに描くのか、はたまた怨霊伝説に特化したものにするのか──長年構想を重ねた結果、『雨月物語』の「白峯」ほど崇徳院の人生における劇的な面を端的に表現したものはないという結論に至り、それをそのまま音楽に昇華させることに決めたのでした。崇徳院という人物がなぜ怨霊として語られることになったのか、そして怨霊と化したのが事実だと仮定して、いかにしてその御霊は救われることになったのか、それらを美しくまとめ上げた原典「白峯」を忠実に音楽化した作品として、少なくとも現時点では金字塔になったのではと自負しています。