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In Japanese folklore, heroes like Momotaro rescue women from violent kami and oni. Although the exploits of heroes are well known, Japanese mythology also featured heroines. [1] Ototachibana, the wife of Yamato Takeru, threw herself into the sea to save her husband's ship and quell the wrath of the storm that threatened them. [1]
A kami known as the first man, brother-husband of the first woman, Izanami. Together they created Japan, and all the kami who came after owe their lives to them in one way or another. Izanami A kami known as the first woman, sister-wife of the first man, Izanagi. She died giving birth to Kagu-tsuchi and now rules Yomi.
A representative sampling of Japanese folklore would definitely include the quintessential Momotarō (Peach Boy), and perhaps other folktales listed among the so-called "five great fairy tales" (五大昔話, Go-dai Mukashi banashi): [3] the battle between The Crab and the Monkey, Shita-kiri Suzume (Tongue-cut sparrow), Hanasaka Jiisan (Flower-blooming old man), and Kachi-kachi Yama.
Japanese urban legends, enduring modern Japanese folktales; La Llorona, the ghost of a woman in Latin American folklore; Madam Koi Koi, an African urban legend about the ghost of a dead teacher; Ouni, a Japanese yōkai with a face like that of a demon woman (kijo) torn from mouth to ear
Women occupy a unique role in the indigenous Japanese traditions of Shinto, including a unique form of participation as temple stewards and shamans, or miko.Though a ban on female Shinto priests was lifted during World War II, the number of women priests in Shinto is a small fraction of contemporary clergy.
This is a list of mythologies native to Asia: . Buddhist mythology; Chinese mythology; Christian mythology (in Western Asia); Georgian mythology; Greek mythology (see Greco-Buddhism) ...
Rokudō jūō zu are sets of paintings that began to be produced during the thirteenth century in Japan that depict motifs of Ten Kings and the Six Realms. [1] Datsueba appears in some of these hanging painted scrolls in a similar manner to how she was described in the Jizō jūō kyō, sitting beneath a tree by the Sanzu River between the first and second courts of the Ten Kings.
Kuchisake-onna ("Slit Mouth Woman"), a Japanese urban legend about a disfigured woman. Madam Koi Koi, an African urban legend of a ghost who haunts schools. The Women in Black of Wat Samian Nari, a Thai urban legend about the spirits of two sisters in black who bear a resemblance to Teke Teke. Sadako Yamamura, a ghost from the Ring novels and ...