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Hitotsume-kozō
''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 the center of its forehead similar to a cyclops. Summary They generally do not cause any injury, are said to suddenly appear and surprise people, and are a comparatively harmless type of yōkai. By that, it can be said that their behavior could also be understood in terms of the '' karakasa-obake''. Perhaps because they don't perform bad deeds, when they are depicted in pictures, they are often depicted cutely, or in a humorous design. In '' yōkai karuta'', ''hitotsume-kozō'' are depicted carrying ''tōfu'', but according to the ''yōkai'' researcher Katsumi Tada, since "" leads to "", hitotsume-kozō are supposed to dislike beans, but somehow before anyone knew it the ''hitotsume-kozō'' switched to having '' tōfu'' (made from soybeans) as its favorite food. Additionally, this said to be related to the '' tōfu-kozō''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tōfu-kozō
''Tōfu-kozō'' ( ja, 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 (parapsychology), kaidan'' books from the Edo period, and from the ''Bakumatsu'' to the Meiji period, people have become familiar with them as a character illustrated on toys such as kites, ''sugoroku'', and ''karuta''. They can also be seen in ''senryū'', ''kyōka'', ''e-hon banzuke'' (pamphlets that introduce the contents of a ''shibai''), and ''nishiki-e'', etc. Summary They are generally depicted wearing bamboo and ''kasa (hat), kasa'' on their heads, and possessing a round tray with a ''momiji-dōfu'' on it (a ''tōfu'' with a ''momiji'' (autumn leaf) shape pressed into it). The patterns on the clothing they wear, for the sake of warding off smallpox, include lucky charms such as ''harukoma'' (春駒), daruma doll, ''daruma'' dolls, horned owls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikaribaba
Mikaribaba (箕借り婆) is a yōkai of a one-eyed old woman in stories and customs of the Kantō region. Summary In Yokohama and Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, the Chiba Prefecture, and Tokyo etc., they would visit people's homes on the eighth day of the 12th month and the eighth day of the second month on the lunisolar calendar, and they are said to borrow sieves and human's eyes. They are said to visit people's home together with a hitotsume-kozō.。 In order to avoid a mikaribaba, one would leave a basket or zaru at the entrance of the home, and it is said to be effective to put the tip of a rod into the bamboo basket and make it stand on the ridge of the house's roof. It is said that this is in order to make the one-eyed mikaribaba make it seem like as if there were plenty of eyes (stitches). At the Ura no Yato, Toriyama town, Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama, an avaricious mikaribaba would even come to collect grains of rice that have fallen on the ground, and would cause fires du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obake Karuta 4-06
and are a class of ''yōkai'', preternatural creatures in Japanese folklore. Literally, the terms mean ''a thing that changes'', referring to a state of transformation or shapeshifting. These words are often translated as "ghost", but primarily they refer to living things or supernatural beings who have taken on a temporary transformation, and these ''bakemono'' are distinct from the spirits of the dead. However, as a secondary usage, the term ''obake'' can be a synonym for ''yūrei'', the ghost of a deceased human being. A ''bakemono's'' true form may be an animal such as a fox ('' kitsune''), a raccoon dog (''bake-danuki''), a badger (''mujina''), a transforming cat (''bakeneko''), the spirit of a plant—such as a '' kodama'', or an inanimate object which may possess a soul in Shinto and other animistic traditions. ''Obake'' derived from household objects are often called ''tsukumogami''. A ''bakemono'' usually either disguises itself as a human or appears in a strange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitotsume-nyūdō
Hitotsume-nyūdō is a yōkai of Japan that has the appearance of an ōnyūdō that has only one eye Summary They can be seen in the legends and folklore of various places, and like the mikoshi-nyūdō, there are some that expand and contract their height. In Kyoto, it is said that their true identity is that of a fox (kitsune). Also, a hitotsume-nyūdō appears in the kaidan Inō Mononoke Roku from the Edo period, and there was a picture depicting it attempting to capture the main character Heitarō (refer to image), but this one is a tanuki that has shapeshifted. In Hidaka District, Wakayama Prefecture, there is a yōkai tale as follows. A young fellow was on the way from Kamishiga to Ena (now Yura, Hidaka District), he came across a splendid procession. It didn't appear to be a feudal lord or a marriage, but when he climbed a tree to spectate, the procession stopped at the base of the tree, and from an awfully large palanquin, a large man with one eye about 1 to tall app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kume District, Okayama
is a district in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 30,640 and a density of . The total area is . Towns and villages * Kumenan * Misaki Mergers *On February 28, 2005, the town of Kume merged into the city of Tsuyama is a city in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 102,294 and a population density of 200 persons per km². The total area was 185.73 km². The area increased in 2005 as the result of a merger with adjacent to .... *On March 22, 2005, the towns of Chūō, Asahi, and Yanahara merged to form the new town of Misaki. Districts in Okayama Prefecture {{Okayama-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kanagawa Prefecture borders Tokyo to the north, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northwest and Shizuoka Prefecture to the west. Yokohama is the capital and largest city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Kawasaki, Sagamihara, and Fujisawa. Kanagawa Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast on Tokyo Bay and Sagami Bay, separated by the Miura Peninsula, across from Chiba Prefecture on the Bōsō Peninsula. Kanagawa Prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with Yokohama and many of its cities being major commercial hubs and southern suburbs of Tokyo. Kanagawa Prefecture was the political and economic center of Japan during t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the West following the 1859 end of the policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspaper (1870), gas-powered street lamps (1870s), railway station (1872), and power plant (1882). Yokohama devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seya-ku, Yokohama
is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 126,839 and a density of 7,390 persons per km2. The total area was 17.16 km2. Geography Seya Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, and on the northwestern borders of the city of Yokohama. The area is largely flatland, with scattered small hills. Surrounding municipalities * Asahi Ward * Midori Ward * Izumi Ward *Yamato, Kanagawa *Machida, Tokyo History The area around present-day Seya Ward has been inhabited continuously for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found stone tools from the Japanese Paleolithic period and ceramic shards from the Jōmon period, house ruins from the Yayoi period and tombs from the Kofun period at numerous locations in the area. Under the Nara period Ritsuryō system, it became part of Kamakura District in Sagami Province. By the Kamakura period, parts of Seya were part of a '' shōen '' which supported th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dōsojin
is a generic name for a type of Shinto ''kami'' popularly worshipped in Kantō and neighboring areas in Japan where, as tutelary deity, tutelary deities of borders and paths, they are believed to protect travellers, pilgrims, villages, and individuals in "transitional stages" from epidemics and evil spirits.Iwanami Japanese dictionary, 6th Edition (2008), DVD version. "Sae no kami" and "Dōsojin" Also called , or . Dōsojin are often represented as a human couple, carved male or female genitals, large stones or statues, or even tall poles along a road. ''Dōsojin'' are sometimes housed in small roadside Shinto shrines called ''hokora''.'''' In rural areas ''Dōsojin'' can be found at village boundaries, in mountain passes, or along byways, and in urban areas they can be seen at street corners or near bridges. When shaped like a phallus, they are associated with birth, procreation, and marital harmony. When represented as a human couple, ''Dōsojin'' are revered as deities of marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osmanthus Heterophyllus
''Osmanthus heterophyllus'' (Chinese: t , s , p ''zhōngshù''; ja, , ''Hiiragi''), variously known as holly osmanthus, holly olive, and false holly, is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to eastern Asia in central and southern Japan (Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku, and the Ryukyu Islands) and Taiwan.Flora of China''Osmanthus heterophyllus''/ref> Description It is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing to tall. The bark is brown to grey or blackish, cracking into small plates on old plants. The leaves are opposite, 3–7 cm long and 1.5–4 cm broad with a thick, leathery texture, lustrous dark green above, paler yellow-green below; the margin is entire or with one to four large spine-tipped teeth on each side. Spiny leaves predominate on small, young plants (an adaptation to deter browsing animals), while entire leaves predominate higher on larger mature plants out of the reach of animals. The flowers are very fragrant, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
