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Takina Inoue is a member of a government-sponsored all-female task force of assassins and spies made up of young orphaned girls known as "Lycoris", an undercover group named after the flower who eliminate criminals and terrorists in Tokyo while disguised as high school students to maintain peace in Japan, with roots in a fictional pre-Meiji group named "Higanbana".
"The Dream of Akinosuke" (あきのすけの夢, Akinosuke no Yume) is a Japanese folktale, made famous outside Japan by Lafcadio Hearn's translation of the story in Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.
Chisato Nishikigi (Japanese: 錦木 千束, Hepburn: Nishikigi Chisato) is one of the two main characters of the Japanese anime television series Lycoris Recoil, created by Spider Lily and Asaura. She is depicted in the series as the most skilled agent among the Lycoris, a group of trained young female agents working for the secretive ...
Lycoris is a Greek word which means "twilight". Other uses include: Lycoris, a genus of family Amaryllidaceae; Lycoris, a character of .hack the multimedia franchise; Lycoris (company), a software company, acquired by Mandriva in 2005; Lycoris Black, a character from the Harry Potter novels
Kuebiko (久延毘古) – A Shinto kami of local knowledge and agriculture, represented in Japanese mythology as a scarecrow, who cannot walk but has comprehensive self-awareness and omniscience. Kuji-in (九字印, lit. ' Nine Hand Seals ') – A system of mudras and associated mantras that consist of nine syllables. Kuji-kiri (九字切り, lit.
Kurumi (クルミ), a character in the anime Lycoris Recoil ; Kurumi Ebisuzawa (惠飛須沢 胡桃), a character in the anime Gakkou Gurashi; Kurumi (胡桃), a character in the manga Needless; Kurumi (くるみ), the titular character of the manga Steel Angel Kurumi; Kurumi Akino (秋野来実), the protagonist of the shōjo manga Haou Airen
Fudoki manuscripts also document local myths, rituals, and poems that are not mentioned in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki chronicles, which are the most important literature of the ancient national mythology and history. In the course of national unification, the imperial court enacted a series of criminal and administrative codes called ...
During the course of their history, the mutual influence between gods has created confusion about which of them was the patron of certain professions. The worship of this group of gods is also due to the importance of the number seven in Japan, supposedly a signifier of good luck.