The Face Powder Hag (or Oshiroibaba) is a demon from Japanese mythology. She tries to trick pretty young girls into using her special white face powder, claiming it will make them more beautiful. Oshiroibaba (or The Face Powder Hag) is an old woman who w
Muhammed’s uncle for example are real people who have become legends. Great epics have been written relating the stories of these heroes, such as the Iskendernâme, Battalnâme, Saltuknâme, Hamzanâme and Danismendnâme. Mythology has two dimensions, one vertical, the other horizontal....
Every national cinema has their own homegrown subgenres and mythology when it comes to horror films and I think Japan has some of the most unique and bizarre creatures of all such as the hopping Umbrella ghost from Yokai hyaku monogatari (1968, aka The Hundred Monsters) or the rampaging sto...
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Wuxia stories often range from the ancient to the medieval era and consist of fictional, quasi-historical characters with a limited amount of Buddhist and supernatural elements, which differs from the more over-the-top treatment of religion and mythology in Xianxia stories, which are essentially ...
Knights of Sidonia could probably cobble together an interesting science fiction plot from bits and pieces of its own world and mythology, were it given the chance. My guess is that the manga tells this story a lot better than the anime, which is too preoccupied with urethral inserts, vomit...
with the sole exception of pornographic figures and statues. This does not mean there were no earlier works of erotica; these early works were by highly literate nobles and were often considered works of art. Japanese mythology, later formulated into the system known as Shinto, makes multiple re...
Japanese mythology, later formulated into the system known as Shinto, makes multiple references to sexuality, but almost always in a positive manner. An act of intercourse, as one leading to the enhancement and flourishing of life, was considered an act of happiness without guilt or sin. In ...
Wikipedia’s entry “Mt Shigi“ Gardner’s Art through the Ages: Non-Western Perspectives, by Fred Kleiner p. 100 The Japanese Experience: A Short History of Japanby William G. Beasleyp. 76 Jataka tales for Young and Old One Grain of Riceby Demi ...