妖怪・縁起
妖怪・七福神・招き猫・だるま・厄年・縁起物
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必修(16)
- ことば必修 お天道様が見ているotentosama ga miteiruthe sun is watching you
- ことば必修 七転び八起きnanakorobi yaokifall seven times, get up eight
- ことば必修 罰が当たるbachi ga atarudivine or karmic punishment for wrongdoing
- 妖怪必修 おみくじomikujifortune slips at shrines
- 妖怪必修 てるてる坊主teru teru bozua little white doll hung by the window to wish for sunny weather
- 妖怪必修 浦島太郎Urashima Tarothe fisherman who spends three days under the sea and returns three hundred years later
- 妖怪必修 縁起engiwhether something is considered lucky or unlucky
- 妖怪必修 縁結びenmusubimatchmaking, or bringing people together through fate
- 妖怪必修 干支etothe twelve-year cycle of zodiac animals
- 妖怪必修 四と九を避けるavoiding four and nineunlucky numbers in Japan
- 妖怪必修 招き猫maneki nekothe beckoning cat
- 妖怪必修 千羽鶴senbazurua thousand folded cranes, given as a wish for recovery or peace
- 妖怪必修 桃太郎Momotarothe boy born from a peach who goes to fight demons
- 妖怪必修 日本の昔話Japanese folk talesthe handful of stories every Japanese child grows up knowing
- 季節必修 ツバメの巣tsubame no suthe swallow nests built above shop entrances every spring
- 神道必修 お守りomamoria protective charm from a shrine or temple
標準(33)
- 仏教標準 極楽と地獄gokuraku and jigokuthe Pure Land and the hells in Japanese Buddhism
- 年中行事標準 竿燈まつりkanto matsurithe Akita festival of lantern poles balanced on one hand
- 年中行事標準 七夕tanabatathe star festival
- 年中行事標準 精霊馬shoryo umathe cucumber horse and eggplant cow made for Obon
- 年中行事標準 節分setsubunthe bean-throwing festival at the start of spring
- 年中行事標準 酉の市tori no ichithe November rake market for good business
- 年中行事標準 六曜rokuyothe six-day luck cycle on calendars
- 妖怪標準 かぐや姫Kaguya-himethe girl found in a bamboo stalk who returns to the moon
- 妖怪標準 こっくりさんkokkuri-sana coin-and-paper fortune-telling game often compared to a Japanese Ouija board
- 妖怪標準 だるまdarumathe round wish doll with no eyes
- 妖怪標準 ろくろ首rokurokubia yokai whose neck stretches or whose head detaches at night
- 妖怪標準 一富士二鷹三茄子ichifuji nitaka sannasubithe traditional ranking of lucky first-dream images: Mount Fuji, a hawk, an eggplant
- 妖怪標準 河童kappariver spirits with a dish on the head
- 妖怪標準 怪談kaidanJapanese ghost stories
- 妖怪標準 鬼onithe horned ogre of Japanese folklore
- 妖怪標準 血液型性格診断blood type personality theoryjudging character by blood type
- 妖怪標準 狐と稲荷foxes and Inariwhy shrines are guarded by foxes
- 妖怪標準 口裂け女kuchisake-onnathe slit-mouthed woman, Japan's most famous modern urban legend
- 妖怪標準 四十九日と霊the forty-nine days after deathwhy the soul is thought to linger for forty-nine days before its fate is settled
- 妖怪標準 手相tesouJapanese palm reading
- 妖怪標準 盛り塩morishiothe small cone of salt placed at an entrance
- 妖怪標準 茶柱が立つchabashira ga tatsua tea stem standing upright in your cup, a small good-luck sign
- 妖怪標準 鶴と亀crane and turtlesymbols of long life
- 妖怪標準 天狗tengulong-nosed mountain spirits
- 妖怪標準 猫又nekomataa cat believed to grow supernatural powers, including a split tail, after living unusually long
- 妖怪標準 破魔矢hamayathe arrow you buy at New Year
- 妖怪標準 北枕kitamakurasleeping with your head to the north, a direction linked with death
- 妖怪標準 夢占いyume-uranaiJapanese dream divination
- 妖怪標準 夜に爪を切ってはいけないcutting nails at nightthe superstition that you should not cut your nails at night
- 妖怪標準 妖怪yokaiJapanese supernatural creatures
- 妖怪標準 雷様とおへそhiding your belly button from thunderthe saying that the thunder god will steal your belly button if you leave it uncovered
- 妖怪標準 龍ryuthe East Asian dragon
- ポップカルチャー標準 花札hanafudathe flower card game
応用(12)
- 年中行事応用 初夢hatsuyumethe first dream of the year, and what it is said to foretell
- 妖怪応用 陰陽道onmyodothe court's system of divination and calendar making
- 妖怪応用 丑三つ時ushimitsu dokithe dead of night, around two in the morning, when spirits were said to appear
- 妖怪応用 化け狸bakedanukithe shape-shifting raccoon dog
- 妖怪応用 鬼門kimonthe unlucky northeast direction
- 妖怪応用 熊手kumadethe lucky rake for raking in business
- 妖怪応用 座敷童子zashiki warashithe child spirit of the house
- 妖怪応用 七福神shichifukujinthe seven lucky gods
- 妖怪応用 雪女yuki-onnathe snow woman
- 妖怪応用 付喪神tsukumogamiobjects that come alive with age
- 妖怪応用 方位と家相kasolucky and unlucky directions in a house
- 妖怪応用 厄年yakudoshithe unlucky years of your life