Joya no Kane: Purify Yourself With This Episode (Ep. 139)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
Release Date: 12/28/2023
Bug News: Body Parasites or Ghosts (Mushi no Shirase)? (Ep. 148)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
Have you ever had a premonition or a foreboding feeling that turned out to be true? Was it a parasitic insect living in your belly or a ghost trying to tell you something? [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] is author . Check out her books including by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit . Discord: Patreon: Website: YouTube: Bluesky: Mastodon: Twitter: Facebook: ...
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Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
If a you hear a tree fall in the woods, but can't find any sign of that fallen tree, is it the work of a tengu, a creepy dead guy ghost, or something else? [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] is author . Check out her books including by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit . Discord: Patreon: Website: YouTube: Bluesky: Mastodon: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: ...
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Story Time: The Mirror Maiden by Lafcadio Hearn (Ep. 146)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
Today I'll read you Lafcadio Hearn's short story: The Mirror Maiden. [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] is author . Check out her books including by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit . Discord: Patreon: Website: YouTube: Bluesky: Mastodon: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Books on Amazon: Buy Me a Coffee (one-time contribution): Credits Intro music by
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Ryomen Sukuna: Awesome Saint or Japan-Destroying Demon? (Ep. 145)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
The two-faced, eight-limbed giant named Ryomen Sukuna has been around since very early Japan, still is he a Buddhism-protecting hero or a cursed demon who tried to destroy Japan? [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] is author . Check out her books including by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit . Discord: Patreon: Website: YouTube: Bluesky: Mastodon: Twitter: ...
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Teru Teru Bōzu: Cute, Magical, Unsettling Origins (Ep. 144)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
You'll often see ghostly-looking dolls strung up in windows in Japan on rainy days. What do they mean and why are they a little creepy? [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] is author . Check out her books including by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit . Discord: Patreon: Website: YouTube: Bluesky: Mastodon: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Books on Amazon: Buy...
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Abe no Seimei & His Mysterious Place Near Me (Ep. 143)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
Abe no Seimei was the greatest onmyōji in Japan. While he lived in Kyoto, he visited Shizuoka at some point and performed some magic, giving us another nanafushigi (seven mysterious things). [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] is author . Check out her books including by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit . Discord: Patreon: Website: YouTube: Bluesky: ...
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Nami-Kozō: The Creepy Little Wave Boy (Ep. 142)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
A nanafushigi (seven mysterious things) and a local yokai, the Nami Kozō or Wave Boy has a number of variations to his story, some involving real historical monks. [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] is author . Check out her books including by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit . Discord: Patreon: Website: YouTube: Bluesky: Mastodon: Twitter: Facebook: ...
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The All-powerful Five Elements and You (Ep. 141)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
In Japan there are two types of Five Elements, the gogyo and the godai and you can find them all throughout Japanese culture-in tea ceremony, martial arts, acupuncture, herbalism, esoteric Buddhism, and even in cemeteries. [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] is author . Check out her books including by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit . Discord: Patreon: ...
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A Rollicking and Powerful Year of the Dragon 2024 (Ep. 140)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu! Happy New Year! This is Thersa Matsuura and you’re listening to Uncanny Japan, Season 8. We just moved from the year of the Rabbit to the Year of the Dragon and I want to tell you all about it. [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] is author . Check out her books including by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit . Discord: Patreon: ...
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Joya no Kane: Purify Yourself With This Episode (Ep. 139)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
Joya no Kane is the Buddhism tradition of ringing out the old year and ringing in the new one. Where did it come from and what does it mean? [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] is author . Her other shows are and . Check out her books including by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit . Discord: Patreon: Website: YouTube: Bluesky: Mastodon: Twitter: Facebook: ...
info_outlineJoya no Kane is the Buddhism tradition of ringing out the old year and ringing in the new one. Where did it come from and what does it mean?
[This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.]
Uncanny Japan is author Thersa Matsuura. Her other shows are Uncanny Robot Podcast and The Soothing Stories Podcast. Check out her books including The Carp-Faced Boy by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit Patreon.
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