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Gozu (
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History[]
2007 Anime[]
Multiple Gozu and Mezu appeared.
A pair of Gozu and Mezu watch over three bank robbers in a cemetery, where they appear as floating transparent images after the leader shoots Kitarō, who disappears afterwards. Another pair witness Enma Daio wrince in pain as Yato-no-Kami starts overpowering his seal.[1]
2018 Anime[]
Gozu appears alongside Mezu out of the flames of the portal created by Enma-Daiō to re-incarcerate Ibukimaru. The two watch as the Kidō is chained and pulled closer to the portal, soon the three disappear along with the portal.[2]
The Great Yōkai War[]
Powers and Abilities[]
Dimensional Vision: Gozu can watch over criminals from Jigoku, appearing as floating transparent images of themselves, invisible to humans.[1]
Legend[]
Gozu (Gośīrṣa) and Mezu (Aśvaśīrṣa) have been known with various aliases, and they were also called rasetsu. In Konjaku Monogatarishū, Hokke Genki, and Taiheiki, cattle-headed oni appeared as villains and were refereed as either Gozu or Ushi-Oni.
General public images of oni in Japan involves monstrous humanoids with cattle-like horns and tiger-patterned pants, where this image is often speculated to originate in Ushitora aka Gon in the Bagua concepts, the direction between the two Zodiacs (cattle and tiger); this direction is often regarded ominous in which demons and spirits lurk in. Based on the general image of oni, the terms "Gyūki" and "Ushioni" have been used for both Gozu and Gyūki.
The term "Gozu" may also originate in the deity Gozu Tennō where the deity has been refereed to several other deities most notably Mutōshin, Susanoo-no-Mikoto, and Shennong.
Trivia[]
- The Gozu in The Great Yōkai War reuses the same mask as the Gozu from the 2003 film, Gozu, as both movies were directed by Takashi Miike.