Talk: Fuutai

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Im not sure but isn´t this guy the same as:

http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Futai

Yafusa (talk) 16:56, September 20, 2013 (UTC)

No one really knows what Fuutai is based on and it could be a entirely different demon with a similar name.--JupiterKnight (talk) 20:56, September 20, 2013 (UTC)

Yes I know, but since the name for the Futai of the Demikids is Fūtai (Fuutai) i thought they might be the same.

I found some info about Fuutai (the tiger one) but its in Japanese and i don´t really trust google translate on long translations. If anyone cares to translate it im gonna leave the link here.

http://www10.plala.or.jp/g-labo/dds/dict/juzoku.htm

Yafusa (talk) 08:02, September 21, 2013 (UTC)

The most I was able to make sense of concerning Fuutai is that he's from the Henan Province of China, which means he has nothing to do with the Japanese God Futai.--JupiterKnight (talk) 09:12, September 21, 2013 (UTC)

Here goes: "Fuutai: God of fortune said to live on Mount Shouyang in Henan Province. Has a human's figure with the tail of a tiger, and carries the power to cause storms that move heaven and earth." As pinyin, this would read as fēngtài; that said, I don't see any Chinese sources that match this name, so this is a dead-end. Miwasatoshi (talk) 03:14, June 29, 2017 (UTC)

Hello, I know a little bit of japanese but not much, but after searching I think I found the source:

Actually his name isn't Feng Tai but the opposite, Tài Féng, and the chinese characters aren't 風泰 but 泰逢, if you google these chinese characters you will get this webpage where he appears:

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%B3%B0%E9%80%A2/13477879

He also appears as Jí Shéntài (吉神泰). He first appeared in the "Book of Mountains and Seas" (山海经), an anonymous book written in China's Warring States period (5th century B.C - 221 B.C, starting Qin dynasty), the book describes mountains and rivers around Henan province, among them some supernatural beings that reside within them, and Tài Féng is one of them.

The Devil Children one is clearly that one, but in regards to the one in Megami Ibunroku Persona, it could also be (though I don't get why he's Ice focused), but while searching, I found that some japanese people, with that design in Megami Ibunroku Persona, are reminded of Atsushi Nakajima's "Moon Over the Mountain", a short story set in Henan province about a frustrated poet who becomes internally and externally a tiger and falling to pure instinct. When he finds an old friend he bents over his regrets in life and then asks him to tell his family that he's dead and never come back or else he could attack him without having any human quality or memory. While his friend is going away, he can see a glance of his body roaring at the moon and then disappearing.

He's not really described as a were-tiger but total tiger, but that's what some japanese people were reminded of. Atsushi Nakajima's work are all heavily chinese-inspired and it happens in pretty much the same place as that legend, so while this story could be a Nakajima original, maybe it was inspired by stories like that chinese book, and the SMT creators in turn inspired by both of them, though with this second one I'm not really sure, but it's food for thought. I haven't taken a look either at future apparitions of Tài Féng in other books, so maybe some have an interpretation closer to the Megami Ibunroku Persona design.

Out of curiosity, the "Book of Mountains and Seas" also has a section about a tiger with a human face that cries like a baby and eats people called Mǎ Fù (马腹). There is also a japanese mobile game from 7 years ago called Tenkuu Crystalia that takes the Megami Ibunroku Persona design and name and uses it as a card, which I found curious. And well, if you want to look for images or fanarts, you can just put in google any of those chinese characters, some chinese people made some. And in japanese, you can also search Fuutai in katakana (フウタイ). Anyway, I hope this was of help.

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