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The Zao Mountain is known for its conifer trees which become encrusted and solidified by January due to the hard rime phenomenon, which is caused by heavy snow and winds of freezing temperatures. [2] These formations are known as "snow monsters" or juhyo in Japanese. [6] They are caused by the frigid storm winds of the Siberian jet stream. [6]
Strong wind over the nearby lake fling water droplets which freeze against the trees and their branches, until near-horizontal icicles begin to form. Falling snow settles on the ice formations, and the end result is a grotesque figure of a tree. The effect of a full forest of such trees gives visitors a ghostly impression.
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The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961), animated short film directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble; Bumble is the Abominable Snow Monster from the 1964 Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. He later influenced the portrayal of the yeti who appeared near the end of the film Monsters, Inc. [3]
The Orphan of Zhao is a Chinese play from the Yuan dynasty, attributed to the 13th-century dramatist Ji Junxiang (紀君祥). [1] The play has as its full name The Great Revenge of the Orphan of Zhao. [2]
"Early Snow on the River by Student Zhao Gan of the Southern Tang," [1] [2] Li Yu, the last ruler of the dynasty, before his demise by the hands of the Song dynasty , was a calligrapher and the patron of the arts, founded an art school that in addition to Zhao Gan, included contemporary painters such as Dong Yuan , Juran , and Xu Xi .
Yuki-onna illustration from Sogi Shokoku Monogatari. Yuki-onna originates from folklores of olden times; in the Muromachi period Sōgi Shokoku Monogatari by the renga poet Sōgi, there is a statement on how he saw a yuki-onna when he was staying in Echigo Province (now Niigata Prefecture), indicating that the legends already existed in the Muromachi period.
They declared the film to suffer from "weak plotting, thin characters, and distracting humor" [13] Online film database AllMovie described the American version of the film as "Another example of a fairly interesting Japanese monster film rendered nearly incomprehensible by ham-fisted editing and substandard English dubbing" and that Honda's ...