Thank before you toss!
════๏✩༺✧༻✩๏════ Recently, thanks in part to Netflix, Marie Kondo, whose name in Japanese is Akie Kondo (近藤 麻理恵), has been making waves across the Western […]
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Something Wild
This past week I picked up a copy of Wilder Girls by Rory Power. If you haven’t heard of this book circulating the YA social […]
A Very Brief History of Onmyōdō (陰陽道)
This will be very brief as there is far too much to go into. The practice has a contentious history in Japan and was outlawed […]
Come and Sleep – Kitsune Lore (狐)
Come and Sleep – Kitsune Lore (狐) 夜の暗闇の中で 狐の罠 作るのは簡単です In the dark of evening The fox’s trap Is easy to make Kitsune (狐狸精), the […]
Fudō Myō-ō (不動明王): He Who Cuts Deception
Shugenja (修験者) a practitioner of Shugendo (修験道) also known as Yamabushi (山伏). Shugendo can literally be translated to mean “one who preforms austerities in the […]
Tengu (天狗): The Dogs of Heaven
The Dogs of Heaven – Tengu (天狗) 深く入りて 神路のおくを尋ぬれば また上もなき 峰の松風 fukaku irite kamiji no oku otazunureba mata ue mo naki mine no matsukaze Following […]
Inari O-kami (稲荷大神)
Inari O-kami, also known as O-Inari Sama, is the Japanese Kami/kamui (God/spirit) of industriousness, grains, the harvest, agriculture and is generally viewed as a fertility […]
Wolf Kami – Oguchi-no-Makami (大口真神)
Wolf Kami – Oguchi-no-Makami (大口真神) 山犬や 鳴口からも 霧の立 mist rising even from the gray wolf’s howling mouth -Koboyashi Issa, 1823 ════๏✩༺✧༻✩๏════ Before I go any […]