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In his 1987 study of folktales, folklorist D. L. Ashliman classified the Japanese tale as type AaTh 314, "The Golden-Haired Boy and his Magic Horse". [3]In Hiroko Ikeda's index of Japanese folktales, this tale is classified as type 314, "Cinder Boy (Haibo, Neko no Tsura)": [4] a youth leaves home (either expelled by his stepmother or flees from a cannibal sister) and works under a master as ...
The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.
The Japanese kitchen (Japanese: 台所, romanized: Daidokoro, lit. 'kitchen') is the place where food is prepared in a Japanese house. Until the Meiji era, a kitchen was also called kamado (かまど; lit. stove) [1] and there are many sayings in the Japanese language that involve kamado as it was considered the symbol of a house. The term ...
Japanese wordplay relies on the nuances of the Japanese language and Japanese script for humorous effect, functioning somewhat like a cross between a pun and a spoonerism. Double entendres have a rich history in Japanese entertainment (such as in kakekotoba ) [ 1 ] due to the language's large number of homographs (different meanings for a given ...
Kyōka was born Izumi Kyōtarō on November 4, 1873 in the Shitashinmachi section of Kanazawa, Ishikawa, to Izumi Seiji (泉 清次, Izumi Seiji), a chaser and inlayer of metallic ornaments, and Nakata Suzu (中田 鈴, Nakata Suzu), daughter of a tsuzumi hand-drum player from Edo and younger sister to lead protagonist of the Noh theater, Kintarō Matsumoto.
Sen-hime (千姫), the eldest daughter of Tokugawa Hidetada Hime ( 姫 ) is the Japanese word for princess or a lady of higher birth . Daughters of a monarch are actually referred to by other terms, e.g. Ōjo ( 王女 ) , literally king's daughter, even though Hime can be used to address Ōjo .
Mikio and Yasuko Miyazawa, their daughter Niina and their son Rei [2] were murdered during a home invasion by an unknown assailant who then remained in the family's house for several hours before disappearing. Japanese police launched a massive investigation that uncovered the killer's DNA and many specific clues about their identity, but the ...
Bugō (武号, Japanese:) are nicknames used in the Japanese martial arts.The word is composed of the symbols 武 (bu, meaning "martial") and 号 (gō, meaning "name"). In English, the term is sometimes translated as "martial name" or "warrior name" [1] [2] with similar equivalents in other languages.