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Toyotama-hime (Japanese: 豊玉姫) is a goddess in Japanese mythology who appears in Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. She is the daughter of the sea deity, Watatsumi , and the wife of Hoori . She is known as the paternal grandmother of Emperor Jimmu , the first emperor of Japan.
Smith disagreed with de Visser, "The wani or crocodile thus introduced from India, via Indonesia, is really the Chinese and Japanese dragon, as Aston has claimed." [ 19 ] Visser's proposal for an Indonesian wani origin is linguistically corroborated by Benedict's [ 20 ] hypothetical Proto- Austro-tai * mbaŋiwak "shark; crocodile" root that ...
In October 2011 it was announced that a feature film adaptation of the story was being filmed. [1] [2] [3] The film Victor and the Secret of Crocodile Mansion was released on March 21, 2012 and starred Kristo Ferkic as Victor and his real-life siblings Joanna and Vijessna Ferkic as Cora and Louise.
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is a 2018 English language anthology of Japanese literature edited by American translator Jay Rubin and published by Penguin Classics. With 34 stories, the collection spans centuries of short stories from Japan ranging from the early-twentieth-century works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Jun'ichirō ...
"The Story of Reginald's Big Sleep" 22 April 2001 ( 2001-04-22 ) Georgina tells about the time Reginald the Lion was trying to get some sleep in the very long grass, but Nathalie eats grass, Zed gallops in the grass, Ronald stomps in the grass, Nelson picks grass for Audrey's nest, and Herbert snorts, which wakes Reginald up.
Kaiketsu Zorori (Japanese: かいけつゾロリ, "Incredible Zorori") is a Japanese children's book series created by Yutaka Hara and published by Poplar Publishing . The original books were also made into an OVA, animated feature-length films, anime, and comics.
Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard (Philip Kim) took gold in the first Olympic men's breaking tournament Saturday. Hometown favorite French b-boy Dany Dann (Danis Civil) won silver, and American b-boy ...
Beast Complex (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Paru Itagaki.It is a compilation of short stories set in the same world as the series Beastars; its original run served as a predecessor for Beastars, [2] [3] and some of Beast Complex’s stories expand on characters from Beastars.