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.
Interested in haiku from an early age, Bashō at first put his literary interests aside and entered the service of a local feudal lord. After his lord’s death in 1666, however, Bashō abandoned hissamurai(warrior) status to devote himself topoetry. Moving to the capital city of Edo (now...
whose only release from the sordid world in which they were condemned to dwell came when they joined their lovers in doublesuicides. In the world of merchants treated by Chikamatsu, a lack ofmoney, rather than the cosmic griefs of the Noh plays, drove men to death with ...
Last quarter of 20th century. Kiln still in operation. Mino pottery, made in Mino area in Gifu prefecture, Japan. The third (left) says gama which means 'kiln'. Marks that includes this character are usually contemporary. Click here to see large picture...
Peter: Death… Sakura: Yes. Peter: I see. Sakura: So and 9 is also sometimes pronounced く Peter: Okay and give us that pronunciation one more time. Sakura: く Peter: Okay. Sakura: And this means suffering. Peter: Yes. I think one of my friends he told me that the name of the ...
Junpei is a Japanese name that means pure, peaceful. Sometimes spelled Jumpei, Junpei is a purely masculine name in Japan. However, in China, it can be either a girls’ name or a boys’ name, depending on the combination of characters used. ...
The episodic series “Space Force”, “Barry” season 3, “Our Flag Means Death”, “Hacks” season 2, “The Book of Boba Fett”, “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and season 2 of “The Mandalorian” get discussed. Four giants of the music industry and 3 beloved character actors get remembered in ...
Departures has moments of soft-spoken drama that spring from this calling, that of a traditional ritual mortician, but the movie has a much keener focus on reminding us of death. Obviously, there are a lot of different ways to make your audience think of death. Director Yōjirō Takita goes...
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With time running out, can Maren survive long enough to rescue Kaia from impending death? Or could it be that Maren is destined for something greater than she could have ever imagined? Buy it: B&N | Amazon | IndieBound | Book Depository The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen Real life isn’...