【伯服、hakufuku】
[The difference between the Chinese and Japanese pronunciations is quite big, isn't it?]The son of King You of Zhou and his favorite concubine, Bao Si.
King You was so captivated by Bao Si's beauty that he deposed the previous queen and crown prince, Yijiu, and replaced them with the new queen and crown prince, Bao Si and Bofu, her son.
However, this is said to have been the cause of the downfall of the Zhou dynasty.
After King You lost his life due to the invasion of foreign enemies, his former son Yijiu became the new king of Zhou, and it is said that Bofu was slain. But according to the legend of "Tamamo-no-Mae", which recounts anecdotes about the Nine-tailed Fox, Bofu was banished and later disguised himself as a beautiful woman before disappearing elsewhere.
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