The harem king of the monster world?

"The name King of XX (XX is generally a dirty word) is cool" (free translation)

The other day, I saw a tweet on my Twitter timeline, and I wholeheartedly agree with it. The Lord of the Flies, the Lord of the Swamp, the Lord of the Rats, look!Everything is cool.In recent years, dark heroes have become more popular than orthodox heroes, so this kind of value may be becoming more common. Hey, everyone likes Dead or Alive and Vampires, right?

Well, there is also a king of ____ in the world of monsters. His name is"Dust Mound Monster King"

The name "The Mysterious King of Dust Tomb" is a series of unfamiliar words, but "dust tomb" does not have a cool meaning. Dust Tomb, as the name suggests, is a word that means "dust tomb" in Japanese.Garbage dumpThe suspicious king of the garbage dump... Ah, he suddenly looks dirty.

In recent works of fiction, this Dust Mound Monster King is treated as a god who rules over garbage, or a collection of tsukumogami that were discarded as garbage, but his original identity is said to be the king of the Yamauba.

No, what is the King of Yamauba?

There are many stories about Yamauba all over Japan, but I have not heard of any stories about Yamauba forming gangs or being organized into groups working for a king. In fact, in places that do not appear in folk tales, perhaps Yamauba have a union under the king and enjoy playing gateball twice a week.

By the way, Yamauba's appearance varies depending on the legend, and the general image of an old womanYamauba in the form of a young beautiful womanThere are many different specimens of him. He is truly a harem king, I envy him. The secret to his popularity may be his mental wildness, calling himself a garbage dump.

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Toriyama Sekien's "Hyakki Tsurezurebukuro," the source of this monster, contains many parts that seem to be quoted from Kenko Hoshi's "Tsurezuregusa," and Chirizuka Kaioh is one of them. In the original text of Tsurezuregusa, it says the following:

"The more the better, the more the writing on the chariot, the more dust on the dust pile."

A rough translation of the above sentence would be "The only things that are not unsightly even when there are a lot of them are the piles of books on book transport trucks and the garbage in a garbage dump." From this sentence alone, we can only speculate, but Sekien may not have created this monster with the image of it being an evil monster.

...But in the original textKing of the Mountain WitchesThere is not even a trace of such elements. It even feels like the later creations are closer to the name and origin. It is often the case that later creations become more popular than the original, and Dust Mound Monster King is one such example.