Kami Kitsune Okami Realm

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たぬき?
Tanuki -raccoon dogs- so cute right?


In the mid-1840s, Ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) created a number of woodblock prints showing legendary tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides) using their humorously large scrota in creative ways.


...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_dog
...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_raccoon_dog

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[A Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, calligraphist, poet, garden designer, & the most famous monk of his time, he is also known as Musō Kokushi, a posthumous name given him by Emperor Go-Daigo
1275 - Ise - Oct. 20, 1351.]

An Obakebanashi

[i]The legend of the jikininki is told in the old Japanese tale of the Buddhist priest Muso Kokushi. It is said that Muso was traveling alone through the mountains in the Mino prefecture of Japan when he lost his way. It was almost dark when he saw an old anjitsu, the home of solitary priests, at the top of a...

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EXCERPT: Lufcadio Hearn
An Obakebanashi
In Ghostly Japan

Yoru bakari
Miru mono nari to
Omou-nayo!
Hiru saë yumé no
Ukiyo nari-kéri.

Think not that dreams
appear to the dreamer
only at night:
the dream of this world of pain
appears to us even by day.

(Japanese Poem)

And it was at the hour of sunset that they came to the foot of the mountain. There was in that place no sign of life,–neither token of water, nor trace of plant, nor...

Modern Information: Chinese/Singapore

Submitted by Sinna_Hime_chan 9 months ago

OPEN rp for anyone to jump in a beautiful forest setting at night...

Submitted by Sinna_Hime_chan 10 months ago

Describes the definition and gives meaning to the word: Kami as in [Shinto belief] forest spirits.

Submitted by Sinna_Hime_chan 10 months ago