Thursday Thrills | Kyoto's Gate to Hell: Rokudo Chinno-ji & Japanese Folklore

Kyoto's Rokudo Chinno-ji is a real temple at the heart of Japan's Gate to Hell folklore—and Capcom's Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Legend links its well to Ono no Takamura, a court official said to travel between the living world and the underworld. Thursday Thrills explores the temple's hidden bell, ancestral-spirit rituals, and the stories surrounding this sacred crossroads. Henrique Couto separates documented history from supernatural claims, tracing Japanese folklore beyond the game's setting. Why did a well and a bell become ways of imagining contact with the dead?

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