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Rat (zodiac) The Rat or Mouse (鼠) is the first of the repeating 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac, constituting part of the Chinese calendar system (with similar systems in use elsewhere). The Year of the Rat in standard Chinese is Chinese: 鼠年; pinyin: shǔnián. The rat is associated with the first branch of the ...
Cross-dressing. Otokonoko (男の娘, "male daughter" or "male girl", also pronounced as otoko no musume) is a Japanese term for men who have a culturally feminine gender expression. [1][2] This includes, among others, males with feminine appearances, or those cross-dressing. "Otokonoko" is a play on the word 男の子 ("boy", from the ...
The Japanese language has some words and some grammatical constructions associated with men or boys, while others are associated with women or girls. Such differences are sometimes called "gendered language". [1]: 10 In Japanese, speech patterns associated with women are referred to as onna kotoba (女言葉, "women's words") or joseigo ...
The word nezumi means "rat" or "mouse" and kozō translates to "kid, brat". [3] The term kozō is a somewhat pejorative word for any young male. [a] [4] As pickpockets were often young boys and girls since the profession required nimble fingers, it has been suggested that Jirokichi was a well known pickpocket when he was younger [citation needed].
Mouse. (manga) Mouse (stylized as MØUSE) is a Japanese manga series written by Satoru Akahori and illustrated by Hiroshi Itaba [ja]. It was serialized in Hakusensha 's seinen manga Young Animal from 1999 and 2004, with its chapters collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes.
Tesso (鉄鼠) is a Japanese yōkai related to the vengeful spirit (onryō) of the Heian period monk Raigō and a mouse. The name "tesso" is a name given by Toriyama Sekien in the Edo period collection of yōkai pictures, the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, [4] and this yōkai can also be called the Raigo-derived name Raigō-nezumi (頼豪鼠) as from the ...
Japanese pronouns (代名詞, daimeishi) are words in the Japanese language used to address or refer to present people or things, where present means people or things that can be pointed at. The position of things (far away, nearby) and their role in the current interaction (goods, addresser, addressee, bystander) are features of the meaning of ...
Nezumi no Sumō (ねずみのすもう or ねずみの相撲, lit. "Rat's/Mouse's Sumo") is a Japanese folk tale. [1] It tells the story of an old man and his wife who help out some mice who engage in sumo. As a reward, one of the mice gives them enough gold on which to live for the rest of their lives. Studio Ghibli released a 13-minute short ...