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Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵), born Shinmen Takezō (新免 武蔵, c. 1584 – 13 June 1645), [1] also known as Miyamoto Bennosuke and by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, [2] was a Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 ...
A powerful wolf spirit that either takes a person's life or protects it, depending on the actions one takes in their life. Okiku The plate-counting ghost of a servant girl who met a tragic end. One of the three most famous onryō. Ōkubi The huge face of a woman which appears in the sky, either portending disaster or causing it. Okuri-inu
A nine-tailed fox spirit ( kyūbi no kitsune) scaring Prince Hanzoku; print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Edo period, 19th century. In Japanese folklore, kitsune ( 狐, きつね, IPA: [kʲi̥t͡sɨne̞] ⓘ) are foxes that possess paranormal abilities that increase as they get older and wiser. According to folklore, the kitsune -foxes (or perhaps the ...
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [ 2 ]
Yakuza ( Japanese: ヤクザ, IPA: [jaꜜkɯdza]; English: / jəˈkuːzə, ˈjækuːzə /), also known as gokudō (極道, "the extreme path", IPA: [gokɯꜜdoː]), are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and (by request of the police) media call them bōryokudan (暴力団, "violent ...
Ikiryō (生霊) from the 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama. Ikiryō (生霊, lit. "living ghost"), also known as shōryō (しょうりょう), seirei (せいれい), or ikisudama (いきすだま), [1] is a disembodied spirit or ghost in Japanese popular belief and fiction that leaves the body of a living person and subsequently haunts other people or places, sometimes across ...
Amaterasu. Unamed sun god, (One Myth), [citation needed] Tsukuyomi (some myths). Amaterasu Ōmikami ( 天照大御神, 天照大神 ), often called Amaterasu for short, also known as Ōhirume no Muchi no Kami ( 大日孁貴神 ), is the goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology. Often considered the chief deity ( kami) of the Shinto pantheon, [1 ...
October 6, 2017 – December 8, 2017. Episodes. 10 + OVA ( List of episodes) Recovery of an MMO Junkie ( Japanese: ネト充のススメ, Hepburn: Neto-juu no Susume, subtitled "Recommendation of the Wonderful Virtual Life") is a Japanese manga series by Rin Kokuyō released as a webtoon on the Comico app.