Uploads by Azuki Arai
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Date | Name | Thumbnail | Size | Description |
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00:48, 4 April 2008 | ShunsenMamedanuki.jpg (file) | 129 KB | Mamedanuki 豆狸, a tanuki with distended scrotum; from the ''Ehon Hyaku Monogatari'' 絵本百物語, c. 1841. Art by Takehara Shunsen 竹原春泉. | |
00:43, 4 April 2008 | Tanuki.gif (file) | 118 KB | Tanuki 狸, ''Nyctereutes procyonoides'', small raccoon-faced canines native to Japan, which feature prominently in folklore. | |
00:34, 16 March 2007 | Tabi to densetsu.jpg (file) | 10 KB | An issue of the early folklore studies periodical, ''Tabi to densetsu'', or "Travels and Legends", established by Yanagita Kunio. | |
00:33, 16 March 2007 | Yanagita Kunio.jpg (file) | 35 KB | Yanagita Kunio, folklore and ethnology pioneer. Image from the Archives Section of Kokugakuin University; taken from http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/media.php?media_id=709 | |
11:39, 3 March 2007 | Susa no O.gif (file) | 138 KB | "Susa no O and Inadahime", by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. | |
11:43, 22 February 2007 | Bakemono.gif (file) | 146 KB | Ending scene to the folktale "Shitakiri Suzume" or "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow", in which a box full of bakemono jump out of a box to scare a greedy old woman to death. Art by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. | |
18:36, 21 February 2007 | Yokai.gif (file) | 133 KB | "Hyakki Yakô" (百鬼夜行) by Kawanabe Kyôsai. |