Morning.
🖼️ Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz

Third Month, Cherry Blossoms in the Yoshiwara: Suzunami of the Shibauraya, from Twelve Months of Beauties of the Floating World, by Keisai Eisen, 19th century

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The kabuki actor Yamashita Kyonosuke in a 'back-mask dance', wearing fox mask, with staff in his sash, standing beneath flowering cherry tree about to strike a small bell.
🎨'Actor Yamashita Kyônosuke in a Back-mask Dance' - Ippitsusai Buncho, 1769.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #kitsune

The South Pole Longevity Emperor is one of the six highest gods of Taoism. He is a star in the southern sky, eternally radiating red light. He is the source of thunder power&able to control weather changes. In addition, he is also in charge of human longevity, disaster&blessings.

In #JapaneseFolklore the kappa is one of the most well-known #yokai but less well-known is the belief that when the seasons change they can transform from scaly water dwelling creatures into hairy mountain spirits. More info in the thread below.
#MythologyMonday
🎨Matthew Meyer

In #JapaneseFolklore , yogen no tori is a bird of prophecy that resembles a two-headed crow with one white head and one black head. They have the ability to speak, and appear as messengers of the gods to deliver important information to humanity...
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Full print.

'Poem by Yozei-in: Oniwakamaru' from the series 'Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets' - Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1848 (detail, full print in next tweet).
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'Dancing Frogs Under Full Moon' - Tokuriki Tomikichiro, ca. 1950s.
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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...
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#OwlishMonday

Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto.
#DailyInari #torii

This small shrine on the outskirts of Tokyo is dedicated to a child murdered by her father. Every night, the father woke to find the ghost of his daughter squatting on his chest. Driven half, he eventually confessed his crime to the police.
#JizoBosatsu #地蔵 #Yūrei #幽霊

Carp, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1840-1842

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Japanese images of dragons are a blend of three influences: China’s mythical dragon, the nāga of Hindu myth and Buddhist scripture, and native Japanese views of it as a water deity.
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'Actor Onoe Matsusuke as Tamamo no Mae, actually the Golden-furred, White-faced, Nine-tailed Fox' - Utagawa Toyokuni I, 1807.
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Portrait of a Manchu Lady: Seated lady holding a fan 🪭

#art #paintings

🎨by Chinese artist Mangguli

𝐂𝐚𝐨 𝐆𝐮𝐨𝐣𝐢𝐮
In Chinese #folklore , Cao Guojiu, one of the #EightImmortals , is depicted with a gauze cap, a red official robe, and holding a yin-yang board (jade tablet), quite different from the attire of other immortals.
According to legend, he was (in ALT)

'Teahouse - Araki Street in Yotsuya' - Tsuchiya Koitsu, 1935.
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