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Mythology [ edit ] When climbing a small slope at night, something taking on the appearance of a little bōzu would appear in front, and by looking up, it would become taller, and the person looking at it would fall down backwards.
There are several figures named Pelagon (Ancient Greek: Πελάγων, -ονος) in Greek mythology. Pelagon, king of Phocis and son of Amphidamas. He gave Cadmus the cow that was to guide him to Boeotia. [1] Pelagon, also called Pelasgus, [2] son of the river-god Asopus by the naiad Metope, daughter of the river Ladon. [3]
The Kojiki (古事記, "Records of Ancient Matters" or "An Account of Ancient Matters"), also sometimes read as Furukotofumi [1] or Furukotobumi, [2] [a] is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 [3] concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the kami (神), and the Japanese imperial line.
In the Edo Period Japanese dictionary, the Rigen Shūran, there is only the explanation "monster painting by Kohōgen Motonobu." [4] According to the Edo Period writing Kiyū Shōran (嬉遊笑覧), it can be seen that one of the yōkai that it notes is depicted in the Bakemono E (化物絵) drawn by Kōhōgen Motonobu is one by the name of "nurarihyon," [5] and it is also depicted in the ...
Toriyama Sekien's Aosaginohi.. Aosaginohi, or Aosagibi (青 (あお) 鷺 (さぎ) 火 (び), "blue heron fire") is a phenomenon illustrated by Toriyama Sekien in his Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki.
"Tōfu-kozō" from the Kyōka Hyaku Monogatari. The Kyōka Hyaku Monogatari (狂歌百物語) is a kyōka e-hon published in 1853 (Kaei 6). As a kyōka-themed book on yōkai, and garnished with illustrations, it was edited by Rōjin Tenmei, and the illustrations were by Ryūkansai (Masasumi Ryūkansaijin).
An English translation exists in the book Green Willow; and other Japanese fairy tales, with the name The Robe of Feathers. [10] A literary treatment of the play was given as The Fisherman and the Moon-Maiden in Japanese Fairy World (1880). [11] Another version exists with the name The Angel's Robe. [12]
Despite the similarities to the aobōzu legend in appearance, the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, as an e-hon picture book, did not come with accompanying explanatory text, meaning that the image may not show an aobōzu, and instead may be intended to depict another yōkai, [8] such as the mehitotsu-bō (one-eyed monk) commonly depicted in Edo period ...