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.
s Buddhist traditions. My experience with Buddhist art is largely confined to Japan, and I lack the resources to independently verify the spellings and lore from outside this island nation. So I apologize in advance for any factual errors that I may have introduced when talking about non-...
Hence the name Migawari-zaru -- the substitution monkey. Still a practice found in the old part of Nara city (details here, Japanese-language site). NEGAI-ZARU, 願い猿, literally “monkey for wishes.” Another name for the Migawari-zaru monkey charm (see above). People write their wishes...
The name Inari comes from the Japanese word for rice plant, ina. Inari is a composite of the fox spirit, several gods of agriculture, and the goddess of foodstuff, Uka no Mitama. Inari shrines honor this combined deity. Inari is one of the most widely venerated kami, divine beings, in...
a name or an object; or the reason of a natural element. They go deep in history and are very widely spread In Anatolia, myths—sometimes called legends—abound that explain how a mountain, a river or a lake was formed or how a living creature came to being. Apart from this, an impo...
I am gonna google my name, bangin… No way. There is no point. You can’t do anything if you care. So what is the point in egosearching? You know, it’s a good thing to know how you are evaluated, so when people do egosearching, they want to know that. Accept such a nice ...
Celebrating the artistic friendship of Melbourne artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme, the Know My Name touring exhibition presents the changing face of interwar Australia through the perspective of two pioneering women artists. The National Gallery’s Curator of Australian Prints and Drawings, Dr Sa...
As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment al...
This study is devoted to the cult of goddess Benzaiten (Saraswati) in Japan. As an Indian goddess Saraswati, who in the Vedic period was revered as the deity of the river of the same name, under the influence of Hinduism and Buddhism turned into the patroness of music and the embodiment...
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