his descendants, Kawakatsu fled Naniwa in a hollowed-out wooden boat. The winds and currents took him to Harima Province, where he came ashore no longer in human form. It is not clear from Zeami's version of the tale what sort of spirit or demon Kawakatsu was meant to have been, but it is implied that from the time he was discovered in the jar to this point he was never truly human. In any case, he haunted and cursed the people of Harima until they began to worship him as a kami, in order to placate him. They called him Taikō Dai-Myōjin (, "Great Raging Kami"), and later recognized him as an incarnation of Bishamonten. Prince Shōtoku is said to have prayed to the spirit of Kawakatsu for victory against Mononobe no Moriya, who led an armed force in opposition to Japanese adoption of Buddhism. Konparu Zenchiku considered Kawakatsu to be a manifestation of the shukujin, a universal god of destiny. According to Zenchiku, Taiko Daimyojin can also be considered to be analogous to the deity Matarajin, formerly commonly worshiped by the Tendai school of Japanese Buddhism and associated with various performing arts, especially sarugaku and noh. The Kōryūji temple in Kyoto, according to legend created by Kawakatsu, is considered a prominent site of Matarajin worship. References Rimer, J. Thomas and Yamazaki Masakazu trans. (1984). "On the Art of the Nō Drama: The Major Treatises of Zeami". Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Japanese mythology Noh Deified Japanese people