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Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the Kyōgoku were identified as tozama or outsiders, in contrast with the fudai or insider daimyō clans which were hereditary vassals or allies of the Tokugawa. [3] At the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Kyōgoku had been enfeoffed at Marugame and Tadotsu in Sanuki, Toyooka in Tajima, and Mineyama Domain in ...
A Japanese spider demon. Kunado-no-Kami Local kami connected chiefly with protection against disaster and malicious spirits. They protect the boundaries of villages. Kunekune A long, slender strip of paper that wiggles on rice or barley fields during hot summers, this yōkai is actually a recent invention. Kuni-no-Tokotachi
The term 悪魔族 may be used to designate evil mazoku specifically (the word 悪, aku, means "evil"). [citation needed] A maō may be a king of the mazoku, or more generally a king of demons, overlord, dark lord, archenemy of the hero or video game boss. The term is not gender-specific. [2]
Son Goku [nb 20] is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama.He is based on Sun Wukong (known as Son Gokū in Japan and the Monkey King in the West), a main character of the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, combined with influences from the Hong Kong action cinema of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee.
Goku later names his first son Gohan in his grandfather's honor. In the anime, he later appears as an assistant to Annin (アンニン), the ruler of the "magical furnace". He is voiced by Osamu Saka in the Japanese version of the original series, Kinpei Azusa in Bardock: The Father of Goku, and Shigeru Chiba in Dragon Ball Kai.
Monkey Typhoon, known in Japan as Assobot Robot Goku (Japanese: アソボット戦記五九, Hepburn: Assobotto Senki Gokū, lit. "The War Chronicles of Goku the Assobot") , is a Japanese mixed-media project created by Avex Inc. , consisting of a manga series and an anime television series.
The ability for Japanese families to track their lineage over successive generations plays a far more imporant role than simply having the same name as another family, as many commoners did not use a family name prior to the Meiji Restoration, and many simply adopted (名字, myōji) the name of the lord of their village, or the name of their ...
Demon: The Fallen is a 2002 tabletop role-playing game released by White Wolf Publishing. Set in the World of Darkness , players take on the role of a demon - a fallen angel who descended to the Garden of Eden with Lucifer , only to be condemned to Hell after a long war with Heaven .