Reading Notes: The Labors of Yamato

 Bibliography:

The Labors of Yamato - The Grotto of Love 

Romance of Old Japan, Part I: Mythology and Legend by E. W. Champney and F. Champney (1917)

http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/japan-labors-of-yamato-grotto-of-love.html

(Image Information: Prince Yamato take made his wife help him to attire himself like a woman https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Japanese_Fairy_Book/The_Story_of_Prince_Yamato_Take)

-Yamato was a Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty who became the 12th Emperor of Japan.

-In a story of an anime I read called One Piece, Yamato is a daughter of one of the four Yonkos and the strongest creature in the world named Kaido. 

-Kaido traps Yamato in the island they live and wants her to become the next shogun. However, Yamato grows angry of his father and becomes a self-proclaimed Kozuki Oden, a legendary shogun samurai who once fought Kaido to gain control of Wano. 

-Yamato is inspired by Kozuki Oden's story and becomes him in order to follow in his footsteps. 

-In this story, Yamato is said to be a prince that proved himself of remarkable strength, wisdom and courage, and his father loved and appreciated everything about him, the opposite of the anime story I read. 

-Yamato was given numerous tasks to accomplish and he did them all to prove his worth, somewhat similar to what Hercules did for Hara.

-Next story is going to be about a son of a king that must accomplish feats to prove his worth in order to lead the country as the next great leader.