Curated category
Japanese folklore
- Japanese raccoon dogCoenraad Jacob Temminck first described the Japanese raccoon dog in Western literature during the 1820s. He based his description on specimens sent from…
- KamishibaiA Buddhist monk in 8th-century Japan unrolled a picture scroll called emaki to recount monastery history. These scrolls combined images and text to tell…
- Japanese folkloreMen dressed as namahage wear ogre-like masks and traditional straw capes called mino. They make rounds of homes in an annual ritual on the Oga Peninsula area…