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A Japanese urban legend (日本の都市伝説, Nihon no toshi densetsu) is a story in Japanese folklore which is circulated as true. These urban legends are characterized by originating in or being popularized throughout the country of Japan.
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
"Ran" was written by lead guitarist Sugizo, who stated the melody just "popped" into his head and who believes the song has a "nostalgic 90's melody." [4] It was used as the theme song to the television drama Toshi Densetsu no Onna 2 (都市伝説の女), and is also the band's first single with a Japanese title. [5]
Japanese anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney explains the idiom saru wa ke ga sanbon tarinai (猿は毛が三本足りない, "a monkey is [a human] minus three pieces of hair"): "The literal meaning of this saying is that the monkey is a lowly animal trying to be a human and therefore is to be laughed at. [1]
The chapters of the Japanese manga series Psyren are written and illustrated by Toshiaki Iwashiro.It is published in Japan by Shueisha, and has been serialized in the shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since the 3 December 2007 issue.
The saying in Japanese is mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru (見ざる, 聞かざる, 言わざる) "see not, hear not, speak not", where the -zaru is a negative conjugation on the three verbs, matching zaru, the rendaku form of saru (猿) "monkey" used in compounds. Thus the saying (which does not include any specific reference to "evil") can also be ...
Chronicles of the Going Home Club (帰宅部活動記録, Kitakubu Katsudō Kiroku) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Kuroha, serialized by Square Enix's Gangan Online service. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Nomad aired between July and October 2013.
Transliteration: "Kuzuryū densetsu" (Japanese: 九頭竜伝説) An old man saves a broken swallow, who rewards him with a magic watermelon seed; a man encounters a terrifying ghost at a haunted stream (repeat from episode 18), and a traveling priest visits a village where an evil dragon is devouring virgin sacrifices.