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▪️Folklore▪️Myth▪️Magic▪️Art▪️ Sharing Japanese and supernatural folklore, mythology, yokai, culture and art. Also love books, cats, crows and trees. http://linktr.ee/curiousordinary
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20.02.2026 00:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A beautiful thread, thank you. I would love to visit and see the plum blossoms one day.
20.02.2026 00:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#FolkloreThursday #JapaneseFolklore
19.02.2026 13:33 — 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A mysterious tale from #JapaneseFolklore for #FolkloreThursday.
19.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0#FolkloreThursday #yokai
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19.02.2026 13:30 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A #yokai for #FolkloreThursday.
19.02.2026 13:29 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0I hope you feel better soon Sam.
19.02.2026 02:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#WyrdWednesday #yokai
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18.02.2026 11:28 — 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0#LegendaryWednesday
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Nao-san enjoys matcha beneath her own blooming ume tree.
A maiko greets guests for the plum blossom celebrations at Kitano Tenmangu.
A plump black cat snoozes at Umenomiya Taisha.
Beautiful weeping ume tree at Jonan-gu.
🔍👀IN SEARCH OF BLOSSOMS🗺️🌸
Plum blossoms (梅 'ume'/aka the 'Japanese apricot') herald springtime in Japan, arriving a few weeks before the first cherry blossoms (桜)🙌
Here is a handy thread about some of the best places to catch ume in Kyōto...
#Kyoto #京都 #梅 #plumblossoms #ume #梅の花 #Japan
A prophetic #yokai for today's #WyrdWednesday is kudagitsune. They are miniature fox familiars but they can also assist with divination, curses and prophecies. More in the thread below. This extremely cute sticker kudagitsune is by amazing yokai artist @samkalensky.com.
21.01.2026 11:53 — 👍 78 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1In #JapaneseFolklore kamikakushi is the concept of being spirited away by the kami, or gods. Sometimes when people disappeared it was blamed on evil #yokai who may have taken the person to the spirit world. The Ghibli film Spirited Away is based on this concept.
#LegendaryWednesday
A path leading past many vermillion torii. A small fix statue on the right and a larger stone torii. Trees and bamboo beyond.
Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto.
#ToriiTuesday #Shinto #Japan
A bronze horse statue with a building and trees in the background and smaller plants around it.
Happy Lunar New Year. This year we welcome the fire horse. There are apparently pros and cons to this fiery, active combo so the advice is to avoid procrastination and take advantage of any opportunities to move forward.
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The horse statue below sits near the entrance of Awata Jinja in Kyoto.
A stone torii (gate) at the top of a flight of stairs leading to a shrine. A large tree to the left.
'Evening Sky at Suwa Shrine' - Kasamatsu Shiro, 1932.
#ToriiTuesday #JapaneseArt #shinhanga
I'm not sure. I've never seen them that way. I guess they are protective, but also messengers.
17.02.2026 04:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A remember to all to not buy AI-written yokai books!
There are so many great books on yokai written by humans, like Zack's translation of Mizuki below. My own books, of course, and books by other flesh-and-blood authors.
We work hard to make sure you get real information, not hallucinated slop.
Our next Shigeru Mizuki release is coming soon! THE DEFINITIVE YOKAI FIELD GUIDE. This was a personal request by Mizuki himself to have it translated, as he felt it was the culmination of his work. @dandq.bsky.social
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'The Fox Kuzunoha and the Abe Baby' from the series 'Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1845-48 (detail). A great thread below by @camelliakyoto.bsky.social all about Abe no Seimei and his shrine in Kyoto.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt
A crow is on top of a bundle of drying rice plants after the harvest. There are flowers on the ground.
'Crow' - Yamamoto Shunkyo, ca. 1890-1900.
#JapaneseArt
#MythologyMonday #yokai
16.02.2026 22:00 — 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0#MythologyMonday #yokai
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16.02.2026 21:58 — 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0I'm so very sorry for your loss Signe. 🖤
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A bearded man holding a sword stands among waves as a dragon emerges from the sea.
Susanoo is a Japanese kami (god) known for his unpredictable and often violent behaviour in myths involving his sister Amaterasu (the sun goddess), and his banishment from the heavens. He is a god of seas and storms, but there is another side to this unlikely hero. After his...
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An oni holding a long sword over his shoulder with a firestorm beyond.
Otakemaru is a powerful Japanese oni (demon). For years he terrorised the emperor's army by creating a violent storm to prevent them from capturing him. Eventually he was killed but his spirit continued to haunt Japan until it reformed his body & started again.
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#MythologyMonday
A man stands holding a long spear pointing downwards. He wears strings of magatama beads around his neck.
The goddess Amaterasu wearing a sun crown and holding a fan and mirror.
The god Tsukuyomi sitting cross-legged on a rock with the sea behind and full moon in the sky.
The god Susanoo holding a sword and battling a many headed dragon.
Three of the most important deities in Japanese mythology had a very unusual birth. The god Izanagi created his three famous offspring while washing himself after returning from yomi, the land of the dead, where he had been trying to retrieve his wife Izanami. His daughter,...
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A stone fox statue. On the left is a vermilion torii (gate) leading to a shrine. In the background are tall evergreen trees.
Inari Shrine in the Otoya Shrine, Philosopher's Path, Kyoto.
#Shinto #Japan
