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The name given to an assortment of ox-headed monsters that appear on beaches and attack those who walk there. Ushi-onna A kimono-clad woman with a cow's head, the opposite of the kudan. Ushirogami A one-eyed, footless female spirit who sneaks up behind people to pull on their hair. Uwan A spirit named for the sound it makes when surprising people.
Her name means "Shines from Heaven" or "the great kami who shine Heaven". For many reasons, one among them being her ties to the Imperial family, she is often considered (though not officially) to be the "primary god" of Shinto. [1] [2] Ame-no-Uzume (天宇受売命 or 天鈿女命) Commonly called Uzume, she is the goddess of dawn and revelry ...
' State Shinto ') – Japanese translation of the English term State Shinto created in 1945 by the US occupation forces to define the post-Meiji religious system in Japan. Kokoro (心, lit. ' heart ') – The essence of a thing or being. Kokugakuin Daigaku (國學院大學) – Tokyo university that is one of two authorized to train Shinto priests.
A story from Inaba Province, related by Inoue Enryō, tells of a girl with poor manual dexterity who is suddenly possessed by a tengu. The spirit wishes to rekindle the declining art of swordsmanship in the world. Soon a young samurai appears to whom the tengu has appeared in a dream, and the possessed girl instructs him as an expert swordsman ...
The name is sometimes reserved for males, while female luan are called Jīnjī (金雞; lit. golden chicken). [citation needed] The luan is sometimes referred as simurgh by western sinologists when they translate the Chinese term luan; however, they do not refer to the same bird creature [2] [3] and is therefore an inappropriate translation of ...
The Japanese name Daikoku is a direct translation of the Sanskrit name Mahākāla which means "Great Blackness". Per the Butsuzōzui compendium of 1690 (reprinted and expanded in 1796), Daikoku can also manifest as a female known as Daikokunyo (大黒女, lit. "She of Great Blackness") or Daikokutennyo (大黒天女, lit. "She of Great ...
One of the amanojaku's best known appearances is in the fairytale Uriko-hime (瓜子姫, "melon princess"), [2] in which a girl miraculously born from a melon is doted upon by an elderly couple. They shelter her from the outside world, and she naively lets the amanojaku inside one day, where it kidnaps or devours her, and sometimes impersonates ...
Others believe that she is a spirit who died because of snow, a fallen heavenly being, or a form of some other shape-shifting yōkai. [ 25 ] [ 22 ] 31 Yako (やこ) is a name that refers to a yōkai or bakemono connected with foxes and fox possessions.