Jujutsu Kaisen · Story arc
The Heian era and the origins
The past the series reveals in pieces: the golden age of jujutsu, when Sukuna was an invincible human being; Kenjaku moving from body to body across the centuries; Tengen and its barriers; the Death Paintings created in the Meiji era.
- Position
- Arc 1 of 13
- Saga
- The past
- Period
- Over a thousand years ago — Meiji era
- Canon status
- Canon
- Manga
- racconto lungo tutta la serie
Arc events(4)
- Sukuna, the Heian-era King of CursesHeian era (over 1,000 years ago)Over a thousand years ago, in the golden age of jujutsu, a human sorcerer with four arms and two faces becomes the King of Curses: the sorcerers of his time join forces to bring him down and fail.
- Tengen and Japan's barriersHeian era (over 1,000 years ago)Tengen, an immortal sorcerer, has upheld for over a thousand years the barriers protecting Japan and the schools. Every five hundred years it must merge with a Star Plasma Vessel to avoid evolving beyond humanity.
- The birth of the Death PaintingsMeiji era (about 150 years ago)In the Meiji era Kenjaku, in the body of the sorcerer Noritoshi Kamo, experiments on a woman able to conceive the children of a cursed spirit: nine foetuses are born, the Death Paintings.
- Kenjaku in Kaori Itadori's bodyBefore 2006Kenjaku occupies the body of Kaori, Jin Itadori's wife, and uses it to bring Yuji into the world: a boy built to be Sukuna's perfect vessel. Grandfather Wasuke recognises the scar on her forehead and understands.