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Second, Wakon-kansai (和魂漢才 "Japanese spirit and Chinese scholarship") occurs in the Kanke ikai (菅家遺戒 "Sugawara's dying instructions"). Third, Wakon-yōsai (和魂洋才 "Japanese spirit and Western techniques") was created by Yoshikawa Tadayasu (吉川忠安) in his Kaika sakuron (開化策論 , "Questions and Themes on Progress ...
Sandwichman (サンドウィッチマン) is a Japanese comedy duo (owarai kombi) and host consisting of Mikio Date and Takeshi Tomizawa from Grape Company. They are from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Tōhoku region of Japan, [1] and the duo was formed in September 1998.
Konaki-jiji (子泣き爺, Konaki-Jijī, translated into Old man crying) is a kind of Japanese yōkai, a supernatural spirit in Japanese folklore. It is similar to the Scandinavian myling, the Slavic poroniec and the Germanic Aufhocker
Kami may, at its root, simply mean spirit, or an aspect of spirituality. It is written with the kanji 神, Sino-Japanese reading shin or jin. In Chinese, the character means deity or spirit. [8] In the Ainu language, the word kamuy refers to an animistic concept very similar to Japanese kami.
Ugajin, a harvest and fertility kami represented with the body of a snake and head of a man or woman. They may be derived from Ukanomitama. Ugayafukiaezu, the father of Japan's first emperor. [31] Ukanomitama, a kami associated with food and agriculture. [32] Ukemochi , is considered a goddess of food. After she vomited out various types of ...
A doglike mountain spirit that may appear to travelers on mountain roads. It may be friendly, or may attack and kill the traveler, depending on the tale (also see the Japanese wolf). Yamajijii An old man spirit with one eye and one leg, found in Shikoku. Yamako An ape-like occasionally-cannibalistic creature that can read minds. Yama-no-Kami
Ikiryō (生霊) from the 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama. Ikiryō (生霊, lit. "living ghost"), also known as shōryō (しょうりょう), seirei (せいれい), or ikisudama (いきすだま), [1] is a disembodied spirit or ghost in Japanese popular belief and fiction that leaves the body of a living person and subsequently haunts other people or places, sometimes across ...
The Gashadokuro is a spirit that takes the form of a giant skeleton made of the skulls of people who died in the battlefield or of starvation/famine (while the corpse becomes a gashadokuro, the spirit becomes a separate yōkai, known as hidarugami.), and is 10 or more meters tall. Only the eyes protrude, and some sources describe them as ...