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all appearances, it’s dedicated to Inari, the god of rice and harvests, but the truth is that it’s always been dedicated to a great samurai from the Amago clan, who was killed by the villagers centuries ago. The armour was his. It’s said to be a sort of relic.” As the reader knows, the samurai’s armour was now clothing the wax corpse at the Monkey’
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Today there is only one artist left in the world who still produces handcrafted karakuri. His name is Shobei Tamaya IX,
Hector Garcia • Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony (Geek In...guides)
could speak to the jinn [the ones we call genies]
Neil Douglas-Klotz • The Little Book of Sufi Stories: Ancient Wisdom to Nourish the Heart
“The Cedars of Lebanon.”
Manly Hall • What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples: A Study Concerning the Mystery Schools
Each time the prince sneezed, from the moment of his birth until his seventh night, a knot was made in a cord; it was believed that the more he sneezed, the longer he would live.
Donald Keene • Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
“We here on the Sword of Kaigen are blessed to have some of the best and purest jijaka bloodlines in the world. Matsuda,” he said, pointing at Mamoru, “Yukino,” he indicated Yuuta, and then went on to point to the other great houses represented in the classroom, “Ameno, Ginkawa, Ikeno, Katakouri, all of you belong to a chain of great fighters stret
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