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Tōfu-kozō (Japanese: 豆腐小僧, literally "tofu boy") is a yōkai of Japan that takes on the appearance of a child possessing a tray with tōfu on it. It frequently appears in the kusazōshi , kibyōshi and kaidan books from the Edo period , [ 1 ] and from the Bakumatsu to the Meiji period , people have become familiar with them as a ...
Small One - the old and weary donkey who made his place at Christmas. The Boy - Small One's friend who is kind to him. Woodcutter - the Boy's father. Auctioneer - a bidder who refused to sell Small One and made fun of him. Pablo - the boy who is told by Padre the story of The Small One. Padre - the teller of The Small One story that is told to ...
The zashiki-warashi of Shirotori, Ōkawa District, Kagawa Prefecture (now part of Higashikawa), is said to appear as a little girl who is called oshobo due to the small, slight (shobo-shobo in Japanese) way it hangs, and sometimes it is said to be invisible to the members of the house, [3] while other times it is said to be visible only to the ...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is a 2018 English language anthology of Japanese literature edited by American translator Jay Rubin and published by Penguin Classics. With 34 stories, the collection spans centuries of short stories from Japan ranging from the early-twentieth-century works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Jun'ichirō ...
A follow-up was released in September 1996 for the Game Boy called Donkey Kong Land 2, featuring roughly the same plot as Donkey Kong Country 2. [57] Diddy also makes an appearance in 1997's Donkey Kong Land III, but his only appearance is on the Extra Life Balloons and is also a part of the storyline that appears in the manual. [59]
The Mamesuke version of Issun-bōshi is essentially the same, except for a few key defining factors. Rather than being born from his mother's womb, Issun-boshi was born from the swelling of his mother's thumb. He was also called Mamesuke, which means bean boy instead of Issun-bōshi, even though the story is still called Issun-bōshi.
Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
The card "Boy with His Tongue Out Licking Tōfu (した出し小僧のとうふなめ)" from yōkai karuta [1] A hitotsume-kozō from the kibyōshi "Bakemono Chakutōchō" by Masayoshi Kitao. [ 2 ] Hitotsume-kozō (一つ目小僧) are a Yōkai (supernatural apparition) of Japan that take on the appearance of a bald-headed child with one eye in ...