神河当時 - 文化的背景：樹海
2021年6月3日 Magic: The Gathering
Jukai
The word "Jukai" literally means a "sea of trees."
An unruly garden: The most famous "jukai" in Japan is the Aokigahara Jukai at the base of Mt. Fuji. Since the day of the samurai, its tangled boughs and winding paths have had a bad reputation for leading travelers to their death. Frighteningly enough, there is more than a bit of truth in these rumors: the area is highly volcanic, and its large quantities of magnetized mineral deposits have been known to throw off compasses. Worse still, depressions in the ground occasionally trap noxious gasses coming out of the ground, forming deadly but invisible pools without breathable air, a fact discovered by a small group of soldiers in Japan’s Self Defense Forces that died while training there in the 90’s. Aokigahara also continues to be infamous as a suicide spot...an unruly garden, indeed.
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TRUTH IN FANTASY Posted in Feature on March 7, 2005
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/truth-fantasy-2005-03-07
樹海、特に、日本で最も有名な富士の樹海（青木ヶ原樹海）についての話です。大量にある磁化された鉱物によりコンパスが狂うこと、地中から有害ガスが出てくること、自殺の名所であることなど、かなりネガティブな話ばかりです。
同じ記事の他の部分では種族について解説していましたが、ここでは「樹海」について解説していました。なぜわざわざこの単語を選んで解説したのかは謎です。
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