Japanese Yokai can be cute. On the flipside, they can be utterly evil and scary too! Here are 15 deadly Yokai you’d never want to meet, within or outside of Japan.
Japanese people's trust is a belief inherited from time immemorial and is still maintained today. This can be seen from popular works that still raise traditional Japanese values. One of them is the anime Natsume Yuujinchou raising the values of Japanese people's beliefs about gods or Us and ...
Pushed apart and drawn together in equal measure by their often conflicting beliefs, Seema, Tahera, and Nafeesa must confront the complex yearnings in their relationships with one another—and within their innermost selves—as the events that transpire over the course of one fateful week unearth an...
Japanese Tattoos Dragon Tattoo There are various images and symbols utilized in Japanese tattooing to convey specific meanings. These images are wont to express a person’s beliefs, aspirations, or character traits. Named “Motifs”, these design elements are intended to possess an equivalent meaning...
Reider provides a linguistic breakdown of many of the oni specific terms, which demonstrate this apparent bridge between the early Shinto/animistic beliefs of the islands and the Buddhist influence. While they are horrific in appearance--possessing horns, fangs, superhuman height, and so on--and ...
.. they have been the victims of a variety of methods of subjugation, which include the vigorous outlawing of their language, beliefs and traditions, right into the late twentieth century. Since 2008, when the National Government of Japan passed a resolution that recognised the Ainu people as ...
refusing to surrender. Ultimately, she sustained a fatal gunshot wound, but rather than allowing herself to be captured, Nakano asked her sister and comrades to behead her. This act symbolized her unwavering loyalty and dedication to her beliefs, making her a legendary figure in Japanese history....
The cave is still held sacred by the local priestesses, and the Okinawans have not lost pride in repeating local beliefs that the first Japanese emperor, Jimmu began his great north-eastward conquest of Japan from this minor island in the Ryukyus. As for origins (which can be supported by...
Originally came about as applied to the people who believed in jinn or jinni. Eg., jina or Jain. Jinn are most associated with the beliefs and folklore of the Arabs, Persians, Syrians and Turks Meriam-Webster dictionary http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=ZP_f9icf2roC&...
lunar month will invoke his spirit, which will then reside in the northwest corner of his followers residences and engender blessings and fortunes; this text is the likely origin of old Japanese beliefs that dreaming of a white snake or seeing one are omens of great fortune and monetary gain....