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Tange Sazen first appeared as a minor character in a newspaper serial by Fubō Hayashi, which ran from October 1927 to May 1928 in the Mainichi Shimbun. [1] The story mainly concerned the exploits of Ōoka Echizen, but the strikingly dramatic illustrations of Tange made by Tomiya Oda, with a scar across his right eye and an empty right sleeve, so caught the imagination of the public that ...
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
This is an alphabetical list of writers who are Japanese, or are famous for having written in the Japanese language. Writers are listed by the native order of Japanese names—family name followed by given name—to ensure consistency, although some writers are known by their western-ordered name.
In literature about yōkai starting in the Shōwa and Heisei periods, there have started to appear various interpretations based on their name and appearance about how they'd suddenly appear from butsudan and frighten people by popping out their eyes, [14] [15] or how a slothful monk would appear out of the butsudan and attack people, among ...
The Face of Another (Japanese: 他人の顔, Hepburn: Tanín no Kao) is a 1966 Japanese New Wave film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and based on the 1964 novel of the same name written by Kōbō Abe.
Statue of En no Gyōja, Kamakura period, c. 1300–1375, Kimbell Art Museum Statue of En no Gyōja in Goryūsonryū-in [], Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan En no Ozunu, also En no Ozuno or Otsuno (役小角) (b. 634, in Katsuragi (modern Nara Prefecture); d. c. 700–707) was a Japanese ascetic and mystic, traditionally held to be the founder of Shugendō, the path of ascetic training ...
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (柿本 人麻呂 or 柿本 人麿; c. 653–655 – c. 707–710) was a Japanese waka poet and aristocrat of the late Asuka period.He was the most prominent of the poets included in the Man'yōshū, the oldest waka anthology, but apart from what can be gleaned from hints in the Man'yōshū, the details of his life are largely uncertain.
The character's name is actually Ichi. Zatō is a title, the lowest of the four official ranks within the Tōdōza, the historical guild for blind men (thus, zato also designates a blind person in Japanese slang). [citation needed] Ichi is therefore properly called Zatō-no-Ichi ("Low-Ranking Blind Person Ichi", approximately), or Zatōichi for