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The generally accepted meaning of Old Norse Yggdrasill is "Odin's horse", meaning "gallows". This interpretation comes about because drasill means "horse" and Ygg(r) is one of Odin's many names. The Poetic Edda poem Hávamál describes how Odin sacrificed himself by hanging from a tree, making this tree Odin's gallows. This tree may have been ...
A gallows (or less precisely scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended or "weighed". Gallows were thus widely used to suspend public weighing scales for large and heavy objects such as sacks of grain or minerals, usually positioned in markets or toll gates.
Korea would later be invaded and pillaged by the Japanese, and later, subjugated by the Manchus, who the Koreans considered 'barbarians'. "Let all brave Prussians follow me! — Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (6 May 1757), at the Battle of Prague , immediately before being struck by a cannonball.
Tsurezuregusa (徒然草, Essays in Idleness, also known as The Harvest of Leisure) is a collection of essays written by the Japanese monk Kenkō (兼好) between 1330 and 1332. The work is widely considered a gem of medieval Japanese literature and one of the three representative works of the zuihitsu genre , along with The Pillow Book and the ...
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan is a collection of writings, translated into English and edited by Mikiso Hane. It was published by the University of California Press / Pantheon Books in 1988. Hane also wrote an introduction. [1] The title is taken from that of Kanno Sugako 's diary, Shide no Michigusa (死出 ...
Satori (Japanese: 悟り) is a Japanese Buddhist term for "awakening", "comprehension; understanding". [1] The word derives from the Japanese verb satoru. [2] [3]In the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori refers to a deep experience of kenshō, [4] [5] "seeing into one's true nature".
Yobai. Yobai (Japanese: 夜這い, "night crawling") was an ancient Japanese custom usually practiced by young unmarried people. It was once common all over Japan and was practiced in some rural areas until the beginning of the Meiji era and even into the 20th century. [10]
A replica of a Man'yōshū poem No. 8, by Nukata no Ōkimi. The Man'yōshū (万葉集, pronounced [maɰ̃joꜜːɕɯː]; literally "Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves")[a][1] is the oldest extant collection of Japanese waka (poetry in Classical Japanese), [b] compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the ...