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Irezumi (入れ墨, lit. ' inserting ink ') (also spelled 入墨 or sometimes 刺青) is the Japanese word for tattoo, and is used in English to refer to a distinctive style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also used as a blanket term to describe a number of tattoo styles originating in Japan, including tattooing traditions from both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan Kingdom.
Onryō are used as subjects in various traditional Japanese performing arts such as Noh, Kabuki, and Rakugo; for example, hannya is a Noh mask representing a female onryō. [5] The Japanese people's reverence for onryō has been passed down to the present day.
Oni Mask [45] is a story where a young girl goes off to work at a ladies' house to make money for her ailing mother. She talks to a mask of her mother's face once she is done with her work to comfort herself. One day, the curious coworkers see the mask and decide to prank her by putting on an oni mask to replace the mother's mask.
A dancing drummer wearing a Namahage costume, performed Namahage-Daiko in Akita Station.. The Namahage (生剥げ, なまはげ) [1] are demonlike beings portrayed by men wearing hefty oni (ogre) masks and traditional straw capes during a New Year's ritual, in local northern Japanese folklore of the Oga Peninsula area of Akita Prefecture.
Hōate are also portrayed in art and literature of the period, most notably the Aki no yo no Nagamonogatari scroll [10] and Taiheiki. The menpō (half-mask with detachable nosepiece) and the sōmen (full face mask) are believed to have been introduced around the mid to late 15th century, and the hanbō (chin guard) in the second half of the ...
Talen-Con (ワルルン, Warurun) takes the form of a pink ball of fur with a fox-like oni mask, had five tails that it stood on and can use them to fire spikes. Talen-Master ( スーパーテイルン , Sūpā Teirun ) is a yamabushi -themed humanoid fox whose main attack involves throwing exploding necklaces.
There is a theory that, just like Shuten-dōji, Ibaraki-dōji was also born at Echigo. Born at the Sunagodzuka in Ganbara (now Niigata, Tsubame, Sunagodzuka), Ibaraki-dōji was a page at the Kokojou-ji, but since Ibaraki-dōji was born in Karuizawa in the mountain recesses of the Koshi District (now Niigata, Nagaoka, Karuizawa), Ibaraki-dōji was given to the Yahiko-jinja.
An art collector and burglar who can transform into various origami forms. Monk (voiced by Tim Lounibos) - A monk who accompanies Jackie and Jade to the Lotus Temple to steal the Scroll of Hung-Chao. After being trapped in the temple when it disappears, he escapes and accompanies Vanessa Barone, Peter Bailey, Angus McCutcheon, and Haggis in ...