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44 relations: Ankou, Bakumatsu, Buddhism, Bunraku, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Crispino e la comare, Death (personification), Death Note, Demon, Diyu, Edo period, Ehon Hyaku Monogatari, Folk religion, Ghost, Godfather Death, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hamamatsu, Hōei, Higan, Izanami, Japanese mythology, Kabuki, Kaei, Kami, Kawatake Mokuami, Kumamoto Prefecture, Mara (demon), Mores, Okayama Prefecture, Oni, Onryō, Opera, Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Rakugo, San'yūtei Enchō, Shichinin misaki, Shinto, Shizuoka Prefecture, Spirit possession, Tenpō, The Love Suicides at Amijima, Yūrei, Yogacarabhumi-sastra, Yogachara.
Ankou
Ankou (Breton: an Ankoù) is a personification of death in Breton mythology as well as in Cornish (an Ankow in Cornish), Welsh (yr Angau in Welsh) and Norman French folklore.
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Bakumatsu
refers to the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Bunraku
, also known as Ningyō jōruri (人形浄瑠璃), is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of 17th century.
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Chikamatsu Monzaemon
was a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki.
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Crispino e la comare
Crispino e la comare (The Cobbler and the Fairy) is an opera written collaboratively by Luigi Ricci and Federico Ricci with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.
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Death (personification)
Death, due to its prominent place in human culture, is frequently imagined as a personified force, also known as the Grim Reaper.
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Death Note
is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.
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Demon
A demon (from Koine Greek δαιμόνιον daimónion) is a supernatural and often malevolent being prevalent in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore.
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Diyu
Diyu is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology.
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Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.
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Ehon Hyaku Monogatari
The, also called the is a book of yōkai illustrated by Japanese artist Takehara Shunsensai, published about 1841.
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Folk religion
In religious studies and folkloristics, folk religion, popular religion, or vernacular religion comprises various forms and expressions of religion that are distinct from the official doctrines and practices of organized religion.
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Ghost
In folklore, a ghost (sometimes known as an apparition, haunt, phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, and wraith) is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living.
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Godfather Death
"Godfather Death" (German: Der Gevatter Tod) is one of the many German fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm as tale number 44, along with other tales like Snow White and The Juniper Tree.
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (lead), is a collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or "Brothers Grimm", Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.
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Hamamatsu
is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Hōei
was a after Genroku and before Shōtoku. This period spanned the years from March 1704 through April 1711.
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Higan
is a Buddhist holiday exclusively celebrated by Japanese sects during both the Spring and Autumnal Equinox.
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Izanami
In Japanese mythology, Izanami no mikoto (伊弉冉尊 or 伊邪那美命, meaning "she who invites") is a goddess of both creation and death, as well as the former wife of the god Izanagi-no-mikoto.
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Japanese mythology
Japanese mythology embraces Shinto and Buddhist traditions as well as agriculturally-based folk religion.
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Kabuki
is a classical Japanese dance-drama.
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Kaei
was a after Kōka and before Ansei.
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Kami
are the spirits or phenomena that are worshipped in the religion of Shinto.
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Kawatake Mokuami
(birth name Yoshimura Yoshisaburō; 吉村芳三郎) (1 March 1816 – 22 January 1893) was a Japanese dramatist of Kabuki.
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Kumamoto Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu.
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Mara (demon)
Mara (मार,;; Tibetan Wylie: bdud; មារ; မာရ်နတ်; มาร; මාරයා), in Buddhism, is the demon that tempted Prince Siddhartha (Gautama Buddha) by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters.
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Mores
Mores (sometimes; from Latin mōrēs,, plural form of singular mōs, meaning "manner", "custom", "usage", "habit") was introduced from English into American English by William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), an early U.S. sociologist, to refer to social norms that are widely observed and are considered to have greater moral significance than others.
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Okayama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on the main island of Honshu.
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Oni
are a kind of yōkai, or supernatural ogre, or trolls in Japanese folklore.
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Onryō
In traditional beliefs of Japan and in literature, onryō (怨霊, literally "vengeful spirit", sometimes rendered "wrathful spirit") refers to a ghost (yūrei) believed capable of causing harm in the world of the living, harming or killing enemies, or even causing natural disasters to exact vengeance to redress the wrongs it received while alive then takes their spirits from their dying bodies.
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Opera
Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.
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Ox-Head and Horse-Face
Ox-Head and Horse-Face are two guardians or types of guardians of the Underworld in Chinese mythology.
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Rakugo
is a form of Japanese verbal entertainment.
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San'yūtei Enchō
was a Japanese author and rakugo performer of the late Edo and early Meiji eras.
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Shichinin misaki
The Shichinin misaki (七人ミサキ or 七人みさき), which means "7-person misaki," are a group of ghosts first known in Kōchi Prefecture, told about in the Shikoku and Chūgoku regions.
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Shinto
or kami-no-michi (among other names) is the traditional religion of Japan that focuses on ritual practices to be carried out diligently to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient past.
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Shizuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu.
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Spirit possession
Spirit possession is a term for the belief that animas, aliens, demons, extraterrestrials, gods, or spirits can take control of a human body.
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Tenpō
was a after Bunsei and before Kōka. The period spanned from December 1830 through December 1844.
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The Love Suicides at Amijima
The Love Suicides at Amijima (Shinjū Ten no Amijima or Shinjūten no Amijima 心中天網島) is a domestic play (sewamono) by Japanese playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon.
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Yūrei
are figures in Japanese folklore, analogous to Western legends of ghosts.
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Yogacarabhumi-sastra
The Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra (Sanskrit) or Discourse on the Stages of Yogic Practice is the encyclopaedic and definitive text of the Yogacara school of Buddhism.
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Yogachara
Yogachara (IAST:; literally "yoga practice"; "one whose practice is yoga") is an influential school of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing phenomenology and ontology through the interior lens of meditative and yogic practices.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinigami
