divine connection in Japan, the fox is a messenger of Inari (rice kami) can breed with humans in Japan, Tanuki have fewer powers than foxes can conjure fire & lights (infitur ignitus) will-o’-the-wisps; fox fire (Kitsune-bi), tanuki fire (Tanubi-bi), perhaps due to their eyes...
After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Japanese horror cinema would mainly consist of vengeful ghosts, radiation mutants, and kaiju (giant irradiated monsters) starting with Godzilla (1954). [9] The post-war era is also when the horror genre rose to prominence in Japan. [9] ...
Born in Kitaoji-cho, Kamigamo in Kyoto in 1883 (Meiji 16). Rosanjin's birth was a result of his mother having an affair and his father, disgusted by this, committed seppuku suicide 4 months before Rosanjin was born. He had a poverty-stricken childhood and was put into foster care as ...
Ōgetsuhimenokami 大宜都比売神 Encyclopedia of Shinto. Ōkuninushi 大国主神(Kojiki and Nihongi). The Great Land Master, Lord of the Central Land of Reed Plains (aka Japan), the kami credited with firming the land, an agricultural deity. His story also involves the underworld (as doesBen...
The US military devised a two-stage plan: first destroy the weapons, then destroy the facilities. Starting in May 1946, workers loaded the poisons onto two American ships and ran a pipe from the island’s Yellow Agent storage tanks to pump the poisons onto the vessels. One man died when ...
So ingrained have these feuds become in the culture that people are already starting to refer to it by name - the honorable house strife, or O-Ie Sodo. They are quite taken with the excitement of these events, due to the political and physical conflict involved. Now, it appears the heir...
Japan uses a seven-day week, aligned with the Western calendar. The seven-day week, with names for the days corresponding to the Latin system, was brought to Japan around AD 800 with the Buddhist calendar. The system was used for astrological purposes and little else until 1876. Much like...
Origamiis a compound of two Japanese words, namely,ori, meaning "fold," andkami, "paper." The etymology of the word seems straightforward until closer inspection reveals a slight wrinkle: in Japanese,origamiwas already used to refer to a folded certificate or document of authentication. So why...
Chokyù is a homonym (a word with the same spelling but has two meanings) for a Japanese word meaning permanence or longevity. Another word for chrysanthemum is “okinagusa”and “chiyomigusa,” names that are also associated with longevity. Because of this the festival is celebrated in the...
(aka Japan) had a long and distinguished history -- thereby proving that Japan was a sovereign kingdom. In the process, however, it appears that the creators of these documents made up the names of 28 Japanese sovereigns, starting with the first emperor, Jimmu Tenno (“he who ascended ...