Chizuko Mifune (御船千鶴子, Mifune Chizuko, 17 June 1886 - 19 January 1911) was a renowned female clairvoyant during the late Meiji period in Japan. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Clairvoyance (from 17th century French with clair meaning "clear" and voyance meaning "visibility" is the apparent ability to gain The, or Meiji era, denotes the 45-year reign of the Meiji Emperor, running in the Gregorian calendar, from 23 October 1868 to 30 July For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Born in the Kumamoto Prefecture, Chizuko was briefly married from 1908-1910. WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyūshū Island. It has been stated that Chizuko was deeply religious and, at times, was hypnotized by her brother-in-law. Hypnosis is often thought to be a wakeful state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility with diminished peripheral awareness At the age of 23, accounts tell of Chizuko awakening her powers in foresight when, in her meditative posture, she saw a number of worms within a nearby tree in the garden, covered by bark and invisible to the naked eye. News spread quickly from the Kumamoto Prefecture to other parts of Japan. Chizuko's abilities soon reached the ears of Dr. Tomokichi Fukurai, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Tokyo. The, abbreviated as, is a major Research university located in Tokyo, Japan. Sharing a deep interest in the supernatural, Dr. The term supernatural or supranatural ( Latin: super, supra "above" + natura "nature" pertains to entities events Fukurai set out to validate the phenomenon of extra-sensory perception (E. Extrasensory perception (ESP is the apparent ability to acquire information by Paranormal means independent of any known physical Senses or deduction from previous S. P. ) to fellow researchers and skeptics alike (one such being Dr. Kenjiro Yamakawa). (1854-1931 was a Japanese Samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist university president and author of several histories of the One of the most famous public demonstrations of Chizuko was conducted by Dr. Fukurai on 15 September 1910. Chizuko appeared to read messages written inside hidden envelopes, to the astonishment of the crowd. The spectacle proved unconvincing and Chizuko was seen as a charlatan, her reputation forever marred. At the young age of 24, Chizuko committed suicide by ingesting poison - there are conflicting theories as to what were the exact reasons. It is widely believed that in the day before her death, Chizuko had a vision of a newspaper article foretelling her own death.
Influences
Chizuko Mifune has recently grabbed the attention of Japanese horror (J-Horror) filmmakers and has in some way been acknowledged in such films as Yogen and Ringu. J-Horror is a term used to refer to Japanese contributions to Horror fiction in popular culture is a 2004 Japanese Film directed by Tsuruta Norio. Yogen is based on the Manga Kyoufu Shinbun ("Newspaper of is a 1998 Japanese horror mystery Film from director Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel of the same name
External links
- Factual Basis Behind The Ring, Ringworld.com, accessed February 23, 2006
- Fukurai Institute of Psychology
- Excerpt from Clairvoyance and Thoughtography by Dr. Fukurai, regarding Chizuko