Bunbuku Chagama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bunbuku Chagama roughly translates to 'happiness bubbling over like a tea pot'. The story tells of a poor man who finds a tanuki caught in a trap. Feeling sorry for the animal, he sets it free. That night, the tanuki comes to the poor man's house to thank him for his kindness. The tanuki transforms itself into a chagama (tea kettle) and tells the man to sell him for money.
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january 2012
Tsukumogami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Understood by many Western scholars[1] as a type of Japanese yōkai,[2] the Tsukumogami (付喪神?) was a concept popular in Japanese folklore as far back as the tenth century,[3] used in the spread of Shingon Buddhism.[4] Today, the term is generally understood to be applied to virtually any object, “that has reached their 100th birthday and thus become alive and self-aware,”[citation needed] though this definition is not without its controversy.[5] [6] [7]
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january 2012
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