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An image of ubume as depicted by Toriyama Sekien, an ukiyo-e artist famous for his prints of yokai and obakemono. [citation needed]In the 16th volume, first half of the Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang of the Tang dynasty, volume 462 of the Taiping Guangji of Northern Song dynasty, the "night-going leisure woman" is a nocturnal strange bird that steals people's babies and about it is written ...
An enemy called Scissor Woman, inspired by Kuchisake-onna appears in the video game World of Horror. [24] Kuchisake-onna also appears as a moderately strong enemy in the game Ghostwire: Tokyo. She has two different forms: in the first one she has a long white coat, a large white hat and is wearing a surgical mask. [25]
The following is a list of Japanese women writers and manga artists A. Hotaru Akane (born 1983), blogger, lyricist; Akiko Akazome (1974–2017), novelist; Akazome ...
The practice of writing a death poem has its origins in Zen Buddhism. It is a concept or worldview derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence ( 三法印 , sanbōin ) , specifically that the material world is transient and impermanent ( 無常 , mujō ) , that attachment to it causes suffering ( 苦 , ku ) , and ...
Tsugumi Ohba (Japanese: 大場 つぐみ, Hepburn: Ōba Tsugumi) is the pen name of a Japanese manga writer, best known for authoring the Death Note manga series with illustrator Takeshi Obata from 2003 to 2006, which has 30 million collected volumes in circulation. [2] The duo's second series, Bakuman.
[17]: 116 One theory suggests the term derived from "eta no ko", or "child of the eta", referring to the Japanese burakumin social class who were once associated with death. [17]: 116 Other possible derivations include the use of wood pieces, ita, for the ceremonial writing of the name of the deceased. [17]: 116
Kitchen (キッチン) is a novel written by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto (吉本ばなな) in 1988 and translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus.. Although one may notice a certain Western influence in Yoshimoto's style, Kitchen is still critically recognized as an example of contemporary Japanese literature; The Independent, The Times, and The New Yorker have all reviewed the novel ...
Yosano Akiko (Shinjitai: 与謝野 晶子, seiji: 與謝野 晶子; 7 December 1878 – 29 May 1942) was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji era as well as the Taishō and early Shōwa eras of Japan. [1] Her name at birth was Shō Hō (鳳 志やう, Hō Shō).