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22 Aug 2024
As explained in the thread below, I'm taking a break from here for the time being. After trying the various other platforms I've settled on 🟦sky. Now that it has hashtags it seems (in my opinion) to be functionally the best alternative should that become necessary. 🙂
8 Aug 2024
🧵I took a break from here due to family illness and came back to find things even worse re misinformation & propaganda. Ethically I can't continue to share content that benefits the one behind it all. Very sadly I'll be stepping away for now. Thank you so much to everyone who...
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I'm not using this platform at the moment but just wanted to say that I've started a newsletter where I'll be writing a bit more about Japanese folklore and culture. Just the intro post for now but it's a start. Otherwise I'm on 🟦sky.
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8 Aug 2024
🧵I took a break from here due to family illness and came back to find things even worse re misinformation & propaganda. Ethically I can't continue to share content that benefits the one behind it all. Very sadly I'll be stepping away for now. Thank you so much to everyone who...
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8 Aug 2024
Some folklore hashtags just to help this thread avoid being completely invisible.
#mythologymonday
#fairytaletuesday #wyrdwednesday
#legendarywednesday
#folklorethursday
#folkyfriday
#folkloresunday
#japanesefolklore
#yokai
Thanks everyone, I'll miss this community 💙
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8 Aug 2024
🎨Art in the tweets above are sections from the ukiyo-e print 'Pagoda and Crows at Sunset' by Takahashi Hiroaki (ca. 1930s), full print is below.
#ukiyoe #JapaneseArt
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21 May 2024
Some beautiful artworks from the Tokyo National Museum's history of Japanese Artwork gallery.
#JapaneseArt #MythologyMonday
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24 Jan 2022
In Shinto, the patron deity (kami) of academics, scholarship and learning is Tenjin. In Japanese history, Sugawara no Michizane was a successful government official in the late 9th century. He was also a renowned poet and scholar. In the early 10th...
#MythologyMonday
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1 Oct 2022
JAPANESE CHARMS AND FORTUNES.
There are three different types of 'charms' that are still widely found, and used, throughout Japan today. They are Omamori, Ema, and Omikuji. I'll talk about them each separately in this thread. 🎐⛩️🎐
#SuperstitionSat #JapaneseFolklore
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15 Apr 2024
In #JapaneseFolklore there is often strange advice given about how to escape from #yokai. This thread has a collection of examples of what you can do if you encounter them.
#MythologyMonday
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Have some cucumbers ready if you want to escape from kappa.
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12 Apr 2024
...around the temple. He noticed one of the Buddha statues had mud on its hands, knees and feet. He realised it must have been the Buddha helping the farmers, so he prayed to the Buddha giving thanks for its help. From then on, the villagers brought offerings and prayed...
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...and gave thanks for its help. Eventually it was known as the Rice-planting Jizo. You can read more about Jizo in the thread below.
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🎨2. Utagawa Hiroshige
3. Kawase Hasui
4. Yamada Kiyoharu
#JapaneseFolklore
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Jizo is a popular Japanese deity believed to be the guardian of children, especially those who have died before their parents. In Japanese mythology, it is said that the souls of these children can't cross the mythical river Sanzu to reach the afterlife.
#FolkloreThursday
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...work was done. The farmer offered him some money but he refused and said he was happy to help. As the days passed the same thing happened to several other farmers. They began to grow suspicious about this mystery helper. One day they followed the strange man. He headed...
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...towards a nearby Buddhist temple and as he got close to it he seemed to just vanish. One farmer wondered if they were being tricked by a tanuki, but they didn’t think a tanuki would be so helpful. The abbot at the temple heard the story and was also curious so he looked...
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Long ago in Japan a strange thing happened. It was rice planting season and one of the farmers in the village was without a helper. To his surprise and delight, a stranger arrived and offered to help him. He worked very fast and by the end of the day all the...
#FolkyFriday
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30 Jun 2021
"Tokumochi temple hangs on top of a cliff. A person with a lantern comes by a steep staircase leading to the temple. The dark sky is full of the stars & the full moon is coming up over the distant horizon."
#WyrdWednesday #ukiyoe
🎨'Temple in the Night'- Takahashi Hiroaki, c.1936
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10 Apr 2023
In #JapaneseFolklore there are many tales of supernatural shapeshifting foxes disguising themselves to trick humans. One story is known as The Fox Barber. In a village in Tottori Prefecture there lived a fox named Oton who loved to bewitch people...
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10 Mar 2024
I adore hares and rabbits so for today's #FolkloreSunday theme I thought I'd put together a collection of Japanese ukiyo-e prints featuring these gorgeous creatures.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #rabbits
🎨'Two Rabbits and Sun' - Shoson Ohara.
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