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  2. Hitoshi Igarashi - Wikipedia

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    Igarashi was an associate professor of comparative Islamic culture at the University of Tsukuba. [2] He translated Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine and Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses [3] and wrote books on Islam, including The Islamic Renaissance and Medicine and Wisdom of the East.

  3. En no Gyōja - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Shōgun (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Shōgun is a 1975 historical novel by author James Clavell that chronicles the end of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1868). ). Loosely based on actual events and figures, Shōgun narrates how European interests and internal conflicts within Japan brought about the Shogunate restorat

  5. List of legendary creatures from Japan - Wikipedia

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    The passage of leadership of Japan from the earthly kami (the kunitsukami) to the heavenly kami (the amatsukami) and their eventual descendants, the Imperial House of Japan. Kuraokami A Japanese dragon and Shinto deity of rain and snow, born from Kagu-tsuchi 's blood or body after Izanagi slew him because his birth killed Izanami .

  6. Yukio Mishima - Wikipedia

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    In On the Defense of Culture (文化防衛論, Bunka bōei ron, 1968), [201] Mishima preached the centrality of the Emperor to Japanese culture, [202] and argued that Japan's postwar era was a time of flashy but ultimately hollow prosperity (a "Shōwa Genroku"), lacking any truly transcendent literary or poetic talents comparable to the 18th ...

  7. Kazuki Takahashi - Wikipedia

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    Kazuo Takahashi (Japanese: 高橋 一雅, Hepburn: Takahashi Kazuo, October 4, 1961 – July 4, 2022), known professionally as Kazuki Takahashi (高橋 和希, Takahashi Kazuki), was a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author of Yu-Gi-Oh!, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1996 to 2004.

  8. Silence (Endō novel) - Wikipedia

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    Silence (Japanese: 沈黙, Hepburn: Chinmoku) is a 1966 novel of theological and historical fiction by Japanese author Shūsaku Endō.It tells the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to 17th-century Japan, who endures persecution in the time of Kakure Kirishitan ("Hidden Christians") that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion.

  9. Onryō - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese people's reverence for onryō has been passed down to the present day. The head mound of Taira no Masakado ( 将門塚 , Masakado-zuka or Shōmon-zuka ) , located between skyscrapers near Tokyo Station , was to be moved several times as part of urban redevelopment projects, but each move resulted in the death of a construction ...