Comments on: Jigoku: Japanese Hell https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2014/03/02/jigoku-japanese-hell/ illustrations, folklore, and blog Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:50:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Matt https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2014/03/02/jigoku-japanese-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-49301 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:50:02 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=10012#comment-49301 In reply to Michael Gregory.

Your next incarnation is a reflection of the actions you took in your past life (or lives). So if you were very bad, you might feel the repercussions for several lifetimes. You could be reincarnated as something unpleasant like a cockroach, or as a human but live a life of suffering, or even wind up in hell.

]]> By: Michael Gregory https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2014/03/02/jigoku-japanese-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-49300 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:10:14 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=10012#comment-49300 So how exactly does suffering continue into future incarnations?

]]> By: Ruby https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2014/03/02/jigoku-japanese-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-48841 Mon, 19 May 2025 05:02:30 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=10012#comment-48841 These hells are pretty lenient compared to christain hell. Theyre on a timer. Even if its a span of time so long you cant measure it mathematically, its still less than forever. Your eons will pass, and youll ne forgiven, and sinners in christains hell will still be burning.

]]> By: [:en]A-Yokai-A-Day: How Hashii Yasaburō Ferried a Ghost[:] | MatthewMeyer.net https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2014/03/02/jigoku-japanese-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-39699 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:34:04 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=10012#comment-39699 […] Inō mononoke roku. The upside-down position kind of mirrors the position of those suffering in mugen jigoku, the endless hell from which there is no redemption; falling, head first, into the pit for all of […]

]]> By: A-Yokai-A-Day: How Genshin of Mt. Hiei Saw Hell and Came Back | Matthew Meyer https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2014/03/02/jigoku-japanese-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-37779 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:15:33 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=10012#comment-37779 […] book called The Essentials of Rebirth in the Pure Land, in which he describes in graphic detail the Buddhist hells and urges Buddhists to aim to be reborn in the Pure Land, a cosmic realm not unlike heaven, free […]

]]> By: jimgasperini https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2014/03/02/jigoku-japanese-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-37746 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:23:21 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=10012#comment-37746 I’m curious why Wikipedia does not seem to have an article about Jigoku. Perhaps you could write one.
The Wikipedia article about Yomi, “the Japanese land of the dead,” does not mention it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yomi

]]> By: Heaven, Hell and Reeds: Japanese Myths – Sunway Echo Media https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2014/03/02/jigoku-japanese-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-36275 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 06:08:19 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=10012#comment-36275 […] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] […]

]]> By: alejandro https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2014/03/02/jigoku-japanese-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-33323 Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:38:50 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=10012#comment-33323 and to think that budah itself didn’t believed in the inmortality of the soul, or as he callend it: without me permanent

]]> By: Hey https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2014/03/02/jigoku-japanese-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-23525 Fri, 20 Jul 2018 01:23:39 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=10012#comment-23525 I only came here to learn why takeo from zombies respects hell in the newest blood of the dead trailer

]]> By: Amber Lloyd https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2014/03/02/jigoku-japanese-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-16248 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:13:09 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=10012#comment-16248 As something of a Japanophile, I found this to be very interesting!

Many thanks for sharing your findings ^^

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