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Konjin (金神, "God of metals") is an itinerant Kami (a divine spirit) from Onmyōdō (a traditional Japanese cosmology and system of divination based on the Chinese philosophies of Wu Xing (Five Elements) and Yin and yang).
After Dark, an entertainment magazine published from 1968 to 1982; After Dark (Murakami novel), a 2004 novel by Haruki Murakami; After Dark (short story collection), an 1856 short story collection by Wilkie Collins; After Dark, the newsletter of Coast to Coast AM; After Dark, a book by David Harsent; Afterdark, a series by Annie Dalton
Ohma Tokita (十鬼蛇 王馬, Tokita Ōma) Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki [3] (Japanese); Kaiji Tang [4] [5] (English) A fighter in his late 20s. After defeating another fighter in a dark alley one night, a representative of the Nogi Group for the Kengan Association, he was picked by the Nogi group to be its new representative with Kazuo Yamashita as his caretaker.
Shugendō (修験道, lit. the "Way [of] Trial [and] Practice", the "Way of Shugen, or Gen-practice") [1] is a highly syncretic Esoteric Buddhist religion, [2] a body of ascetic practices that originated in the Nara Period of Japan having evolved during the 7th century from an amalgamation of beliefs, philosophies, doctrines and ritual systems ...
Under Chinese Buddhist influence, [2] the god was identified with Myōken, either as the Pole Star or Venus, before being combined with the god of all stars, Ama-no-mi-naka-nushi (天之御中主神, lit. ' Divine Lord of the Middle-Heavens '). In some versions, Amatsu-Mikaboshi was born from the blood of Kagutsuchi spilt by Izanagi, after ...
Sanmon (三門, or sammon, main door), bōketsurō (望闕楼). Kennin-ji was founded in 1202 CE and claims to be the oldest Zen temple in Kyoto. The temple was a replica of public Chinese monasteries found Zhejiang Province, which Japanese monks often frequented during the thirteenth century.
The husband must endure while grabbing her hair and riding astride her corpse. She complains of the heavy load and leaves the house to "go looking" (presumably for her husband), but after a day she gives up and returns, after which the diviner is able to complete her exorcism with an incantation. [15] [16] Of a Promise Broken
After Dark featured a different topic each week, with guests selected to provoke lively discussion. Subject matter included "the treatment of children, of the mentally ill, of prisoners, and about class, cash and racial and sexual difference", as well as "matters of exceptional sensitivity to the then Thatcher government, such as state secrecy or the Troubles in Northern Ireland"; "places ...