Wu Song (English)

Japanese: 武松 - ぶしょう（英語表記）Wǔ Sōng

He is one of the 108 leaders in the Chinese novel "Water Margin." His nickname was "The Ascetic." He is said to have been from Qinghe County (Hebei Province) and made a name for himself by killing a man-eating tiger with his bare hands on Jingyang Hill. He was later accused of killing his sister-in-law Pan Jinlian and her lover Ximen Qing, who had poisoned his brother. He joined Liangshan Marsh and eventually became a monk at the Liuhe Temple in Hangzhou, where he died at the age of 80. The Ming Dynasty novel "Jin Ping Mei" is an expansion of the story of his murder of Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing. He is also the protagonist of some of the Yangzhou and Hangzhou hyowa (a type of storytelling) stories, and is widely loved by the people.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国の小説《水滸伝》の108人の頭目の一人。あだ名は行者。清河県(河北省)出身とされ，景陽岡で人食い虎を素手で打ち殺して名をあげる。のち兄を毒殺した嫂の潘金蓮とその情夫の西門慶（せいもんけい）を殺したため罪を問われ，梁山泊に入り，最後は杭州の六和寺で出家，80歳で没する。明代の小説《金瓶梅（きんぺいばい）》は，彼が潘金蓮，西門慶を殺した話をもとに敷衍（ふえん）したものである。また揚州や杭州の評話(講談の一種)には，彼を主人公としたものがあり，広く民衆に親しまれている。

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