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Strange statues and folklore haunt Japan's Yokai town
Fukusaki (福崎町) is a town located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Kunio Yanagita, a scholar and folklorist who has been called the ...
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Dandadan: Japanese Folklore From Show, Explained
Japanese folklore has been a mainstay in anime for ... to name-dropping the Loch Ness Monster; Dandadan is no stranger to mixing and matching myths and legends from all over.
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U.S. illustrator tells all about ‘yokai’ monsters in encyclopedias
FUKUI--Amabie, a folklore sea monster with the power to ... and he came up with the idea of drawing Japanese monsters during the Halloween season in October that year. “I learned there were ...