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'Mount Fuji at sunset on the lake in Suruga Province' - Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1880.
#SwampSunday #ukiyoe #Japan

If you'd like to visit The Valley of the Dragons, The Cliffs of the Giants, The Bay of Dreams or Arthur's Avalon, you'll need a copy of Bernard Sleigh's 1918 'Ancient Mappe of Fairyland' which depicts all these places, and many more locations found in fairy...
#WyrdWednesday
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In #JapaneseFolklore, Tennyo are heavenly beings who appear as extraordinarily beautiful women. Tennyo sometimes fly down to earth wearing magical feathered kimonos. There are many tales in Japan of love stories between Tennyo and human men. Similarly to...
#FairyTaleTuesday
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'The Enlightenment of Daruma' - Yoshitoshi Tsukioka.
#Caturday #ukiyoe

'Sleeping Beauty' - Mizuno Toshikata, ca. 1900 - 1910.
#ukiyoe #Japan #FairyTaleTuesday

...from the Buson Yokai Emaki, a famous picture scroll from the 1750's. A second fruit-headed monster on the scroll is makuwauri no bakemono, also appearing as a samurai with a Japanese melon for a head. Nothing is known about their behaviour or whether they are dangerous.
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In #JapaneseFolklore there is definitely a #yokai for every occasion. When it comes to fruit, I present suika no bakemono, which appears as a watermelon-headed samurai. Unfortunately very little is known about this strange supernatural creature. It comes...
#FolkloreSunday
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...Earth from the Moon to escape a celestial war, and was later apparently returned to her extraterrestrial family on the moon in a round flying machine similar to a flying saucer. The tale was first recorded in 1592.
🎨From #StudioGhibli film and #ukiyoe print by Hiroshige.
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The Chinese goddess Xiwangmu lives in the mythical Kunlun Mountains with her magical animal familiars including a three-legged crow, a nine-tailed fox, the moon rabbit and a dancing toad. She is also associated with tigers and is believed to still have a...
#FairyTaleTuesday
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'Unicorn' - Maerten de Vos, 1572.
#FairyTaleTuesday