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E90 Jesus in Japan

This supposed grave can be found in the village of Shingō, Aomori Prefecture, but what exactly is the story of how Christ came to be in Japan?

According to the tale, Jesus has already once been to Japan when he was aged 21...

E89 The Golden Tea Room

The Golden Tea Room, or as it is known Japanese, the 黄金の茶室, Ōgon no chashitsu was not a permanent structure that people could visit to should they wish to go and experience a tea ceremony. In fact this was a portable tea room dating to the late 16th century of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period and is was constructed for use by Hideyoshi Toyotomi...

B23 The Demon Candlestick

In Japanese this creature is called the Tōdaiki. It wasn’t always a candlestick, in fact it was a first a man known as Minister Karu (軽大臣). He was sent to China as an envoy, however there he found himself poisoned by one of the Ministers there...

B22 A Dead Secret

A long time ago, in the province of Tamba, there lived a rich merchant named Inamuraya Gensuké. He had a daughter called O-Sono. As she was very clever and pretty, he thought it would be a pity to let her grow up with only such teaching as the country-teachers could give her...

E84 The Three Bonsai

In the reign of the Emperor Go-Fukakusa there lived a celebrated Regent, Saimyoji Tokiyori. When thirty years of age this Regent retired to a monastery for several years, and not infrequently his peace of mind was sadly disturbed by stories of peasants who suffered at the hands of tyrannical officials. Now Tokiyori loved above everything the...

E83 The Tale of Priest Zōga

This is the tale of Priest Zōga (蔵賀), a man who we known lived from 917-1003. This particular tale concerning him can be found in several different documents, these being the Konjaku Monogatari Shu, Uji shūi, Senjūshō and Hosshinshū...

B21 Night Moving

In Chiba, you can find a man by the name of Naoki Iwabuchi. He works in what looks like a very normal office, dressed as most people in Japan do when they work, in a black suit..

E82 Eugenics in Japan

The idea first came to Japan through Yamanouchi Shige, a man trained under John Merle Coulter. He was searching for a way to make the Japanese race genetically surpass that of the west...

E81 A Troubled Stomach

Now this is a tale which can be found in the konjaku monogatari shū, a tale revolving around a man known as Fujiwara no Tamemori from the Province of Echizen. A Province he was made Governor of in 1029AD...

Ono no Komachi Poem

Saigyo Hoshi Poem

Priest Noin Poem

Fujiwara Yoshitaka Poem

Daini no Sanmi Poem

Yamabe no Akahito Poem

Aobozu

Amefuri Kozo

Nurarihyon

Tengu

Hitotsume kozo

Nekomata

Kappa

November 2024 Updates

More yokai, more poets and a look into some of the Imperial Anthologies.

September 2024 Updates

This month we added a new family to the website, the Amago Family, several new yōkai, as well as all information concerning Emperor Keikō that resides in the nihongi.

August 2024 Updates

This month we continued adding information about Emperor Keikō’s reign from the nihongi and almost all of his children. We also have some new yōkai and clans added to the website.

July 2024 Updates

New literature, new Yokai and many updates to the people and places surrounding the reign of Emperor Keiko this month.

June 2024 Updates

As it stands we only have a few new pages for the start of June as we have been remembering where we were at when we last updated the website.

December 2023 Updates

This month we managed to add several new Folktales (8 in total) to the website for you to enjoy.