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New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige (1857)
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Knowledge that should not be pursued. Writhing madness resides out in the fields, almost like a trap for those who want to know what exactly they're seeing from so far away.
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@hxhbigbang23 reveal time! This is the piece I drew for @nutellacats-blog ‘s amazing fanfic which is inspired by the Japanese Tanabata Tale. I had so much fun working on this!
#hxh#hunter x hunter#hunter x hunter big bang#hxhbigbang2023#killua#gon#killugon#Japanese legend#tanabata#tanabata tale
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Legend of the Tengu at Kiyomizu-dera from Detective Conan : Case Closed (Ep 927)
Long ago, there live a couple whose wife work in the field while the husband is a Samurai. One day, she discovers a paper plant leaf which seems unique and divine that she enthusiastically shows her husband when he returned home.
Strange things happen afterwards when Kyoto came under attack by Yokai. An angry Tengu visited the Samurai that night to inform him that his wife has unwittingly removed the seal that kept the Yokai at bay and must pay the price.
The Samurai refuse to let any harm came to his wife that he sacrifice himself by plunging to his death at Kiyomizu-dera to be reborn as Red Tengu so as to protect his wife and deal with the Yokai attacking Kyoto himself.
He won the fight but lost his wife since he can longer live with her in that form.
The wife doesn’t understand what is happening and he can’t explain it then.
Later, his wife received his message to meet again at Kiyomizu-dera.
He explains everything that happened and only came to bid her farewell. She asked why do they meet at sunset and not sunrise so they could spend more time together and he said because he’s red with blood now. And he hope that the afternoon sun will make him look less red and frightening to her.
They embraced for the last time before he leaves.
The story only appeared for a few minutes but I already got teary-eyed. And the song is not helping with the tears. 😭
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Dyk?
-That there is a Japanese legend that says-
The sun and moon used to love each other but because of their time difference they don't meet, so god created the eclipse for them to meet so that people would know that there is no impossible for love.
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Japanese legend
If you hate yourself on how you look. Remember a Japanese legend states that the face you have now, is the face your past self fell in love with.
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Tanabata inspired art.
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speeder lady
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The Cursed Blades of Muramasa
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Does Yuki-onna exist in the Disneyverse?
She certainly could! Its a great story, lots of spookiness and some good angst. I dont have a plan for it but yeah it could definitely have happend at some point in the time line!
Link the the story for those who don't know it
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Okiku The Haunted Japanese Doll
A creepy Japanese legend claims the soul of a little girl is forever trapped inside an 'Okiku' doll and has hair that 'never stops growing'. The strange supernatural story goes all the way back to 1918.
https://youtu.be/dy7aWnPCAOU
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Sakata no Kintoki Defeating the Earth Spider by Katsukawa Shun'ei (Edo Period)
#katsukawa shun'ei#art#ukiyo-e#woodblock prints#fine art#18th century#18th century art#edo era#edo period#woodblock print#japanese art#japanese artist#japanese folklore#japanese legend#spider#hero#heroes#asian art#classic art
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Distorted equine souls caught entwined with branches. As part of its surprise, it not only screams out, but may also suddenly drop from its hidden spot to suddenly dangle in front of its victims.
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Noppera-Bo
Hi I'm back aging. I was supposed to make a post around a month ago but I was out of ideas, anyways sorry for vanishing for a long time. Enjoy the story tho.
The Noppera-bo (のっぺらぼう) or faceless ghost, is a Japanese yokai that looks like a human but has no face. They are sometimes mistakenly referred to as a mujina, an old Japanese word for a badger or raccoon dog. Although the mujina can assume the form of the other, noppera-bo are usually disguised as humans. Such creatures were thought to sometimes transform themselves into noppera-bo in order to frighten humans. Lafcadio Hearn used the animals' name as the title of his story about faceless monsters, probably resulting in the misused terminology.
Noppera-bo are known primarily for frightening humans, but are usually otherwise harmless. They appear at first as ordinary human beings, sometimes impersonating someone familiar to the victim, before causing their features to disappear, leaving a blank, smooth sheet of skin where their face should be.
A/n: Disclaimer!! I do not own any of there pictures I got them from google so don't come after me. Owners of these pictures if you want me to take off the picture just let me know.
Anyways thats all for today. Have a good day or a good night. Byeee and take care.
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Bodhidharma - who is he? What's he known for?
Buckle in, because this one gets contentious, depending on what you believe, which isn't the point of the post, but alas, Internet and people.
Okay :cracks knuckles: less-go!
Bodhidharma was an Indian monk who lived during 5th/6th century BC. He's traditionally considered as the man who brought Chan Buddhism to China and is regarded as the father of it in China.
A story from the 17th century, found in the manual, Yijin Jing (a collection of exercises), credits Bodhidharma with introduction of certain exercises and training to/with the monks of Shaolin that led to the creation of Kung Fu - that's the contentious part. There are arguments from both sides, and there are stories claiming this, but they are disregarded by some - truth: no one knows.
His life is a case of legend as well as unreliable tales. Traveling, growth, self development, bringing knowledge, learning it, and becoming different things to different cultures along with names.
Some that don't add up. In China, is known as Dámó, and Daruma in Japan both mean the same thing: Dharma (which has its whole own story to be told and lessons).
Interestingly though, he earned another name in China: Bìyǎnhú or, The Blue-eyed Barbarian.
By all accounts, Bodhidharma is considered South Indian, and the third son of a king in much of Buddhist art, he's depicted as, ill-tempered, with a large nose, thickly bearded, and with wide eyes -- comments and depictions making it clear he is not Chinese, though he has become something of a Chinese Saint in terms/associations with Buddhism.
One story described him meditating on a mountain with golden rays shining on him, his blue eyes, and that he boasts of having traveled everywhere, and lived at least 150 years. This story and similar ones don't make him out to be a wise philosopher or someone deep in meditative practice, but rather, a thaumaturge - someone capable of profound and mystical feats.
A 7th century work on monks details Bodhidharma and says that he crossed distant mountains and the sea to arrive in Wei (one of the seven major states during the Warring States period of ancient China). Most accounts consider him to be of South Indian heritage. Interestingly, most Japanese stories consider him to be of Central Persian background.
He is traditionally considered to have brought Mahāyāna style of meditation to China, tied into a story about him which claims he sat motionless--still and silent facing a wall for 9 years in deep meditation, and the practice of wall staring as meditation is said to have come from him.
Bodhidharma is said in one story to have met Emperor Wu of Liang in where the two have an exchange. The summary of it is that Bodhidharma tells the Emperor of the importance of nothingness, and so, that even he in a way is that, at least when asked by the Emperor who stands before him. Bodhidharma says: I do not know (because he is empty-nothing).
Other stories of his time (going back to the Shaolin) claim that he was distraught over the poor shape of the monks of Shaolin then, so he began instructing them - specifically being credited with teaching them the: Eighteen Arhat Hands, and the internal practice named - Sinew Metamorphosis Classic.
This obviously has to be taken very carefully. People get angry with stuff like this about cultures, and the reason I'm discussing it as we've already seen with the story itself how different cultures interpret different things and change stories. Bodhidharma WAS REAL. That much is certain, but look at what's attributed to his life and about him. It's hard sussing out every detail of what's real and isn't. Sound familiar?
As you've seen in Tales of Tremaine, there are many of these details about Ari as well, but that's not unique there. Nor unique to Bodhidharma. The idea for example of a foreigner coming in and teaching or learning an exotic (or what's perceived as that) art from/to one culture is a common trope. Is this what spawned it? Not...really. There are other stories all over of a stranger coming to: new land (can even be in the same country), meeting rural, secret holding people, forgotten tribe, w.e. and learning an art from them and this fascinatingly continues with Bodhidharma - stories go on to credit him with teaching/spreading of the specific martial art, Silat, through much of South East Asia - again, to be said.
I know this might upset people - please read this carefully and my words. 'm sharing the general consensus by authors, the academic community, Buddhist scholars, in which it's also clearly said - translation: this is what we think we know, some people argue otherwise, and there isn't enough to 10000 percent say.
That's in fact why I am specifically talking about this, because this is key to Tales of Tremaine, and how stories do this. Everyone has it in their lives too. I am sure you've had people spread lies/rumors about you at one point or another, and we all know how the game of telephone works.
Anyways, here's a fascinating one:
Ahem: LIFE AFTER DEATH:
Oh, yes. Three years after his reported death, Bodhidharma was seen in the Pamir mountains holding one shoe (sandal) but Ambassador Song Yun of Wei who confronts the monk. The monk tells him that he is going home and the ambassador should not talk about having seen him or he will meet with disaster. Ambassador Song Yun does not listen and...voila. He tells the Emperor of what he saw, and is then arrested for lying. When the monks of Shaolin inspected Bodhidharma's grave, all they found was one slipper. No body. . . .spooky. One story claims he discovered tea - again, this is a story, and I'm sharing what is recorded, I am not saying he did.
The story goes, upon being frustrated that he could not keep his eyes open during his wall staring meditation, he ripped off his own eyelids. They fell to the ground and became tea plants.
Other sources say his life in ways led to the tea drinking ceremony in Japan that comes from China in where it's said that those who venerate him would begin practice by sharing a bowl of tea with a picture of him to honor him. This became a Buddhist tea drinking ceremony that along with the increased practice/travel of Buddhism to/in Japan, led to the Japanese tea ceremony. Again, that is what stories say. Anyways, now you have another example of a real person, and how a life and the stories around it traveled and evolved to...well, influence a lot around a lot of cultures in the world.
And, how one person's tales can be turned and twisted over time to become...well, this.
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I've had a few strange dreams recently. Last night I had a dream where I had figured out how to leap something like 30 feet (~10 meters) by doing a handstand and swinging myself under my arms. Doesn't make that much physical sense. I was trying this ability in the entrance of a shopping mall when apparently some clothes became possessed and people were worried about it. I swung over to a possessed burlap kimono recalling a Japanese legend about kimonos that become possessed and attack people, a legend which I have no recollection and was probably made up by the dream. I had tackled the possessed clothing and prepared to slash it with a knife but remembered I had none. One with a tanto style point appeared in my hand regardless and I woke up shortly afterward.
#dreams#dream#text post#japanese legend#I've added that tag in case there turns out to be a legend fitting the dream#there's a lot of recorded legends so it is possible#youkai#japanese folklore#dream interpretation
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