[HN Gopher] The Spellbinding Life of Koji Kashin: Japan's Legend...
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       The Spellbinding Life of Koji Kashin: Japan's Legendary Wandering
       Magician
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2024-09-10 13:31 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.tokyoweekender.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tokyoweekender.com)
        
       | greenhearth wrote:
       | Origins, or perhaps cultural links, of literary style, imagery
       | and themes of a lot of modern anime are obvious in these folk
       | tales.
        
         | PaulHoule wrote:
         | See
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         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urusei_Yatsura
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         | for something that quite deliberately draws from the literature
         | and folklore of
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heian_period
         | 
         | and frequently outright says that it is doing so.
        
       | VoodooJuJu wrote:
       | Tough to read with the sticky header that takes up 1/4 of my
       | screen. I thought we stopped doing that in like 2009, what
       | happened?
        
         | e40 wrote:
         | Don't see that on iOS with Safari and 1Blocker, AdGuard and
         | BlockBear extensions.
        
         | bookofjoe wrote:
         | Don't see that on Chrome on MacBook Pro with no ad blockers
         | etc.
        
         | joseda-hg wrote:
         | Don't see it on Chrome or Firefox on Windows regardless of
         | uBlock Origin being active
        
         | tonetegeatinst wrote:
         | Not seeing it on my end, using Firefox on mobile with ublock
         | origin + privacy badger.
        
         | fkyoureadthedoc wrote:
         | Don't see that in my mind's eye pretending to have read the
         | article and joining the discussion with strong opinions
        
       | vessenes wrote:
       | Interesting to see a trickster/coyote legend from east asia, and
       | fairly recent (last few hundred years). I wonder if there's a
       | longer tradition in Japan of people like this.
        
         | PaulHoule wrote:
         | The
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         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-tailed_fox
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         | is big in the sinosphere.
        
           | mudita wrote:
           | I didn't know the term sinosphere until now, thanks for
           | making me aware of it.
        
           | blel wrote:
           | Which of course inspired the Pokemon Ninetails...
        
         | Ichthypresbyter wrote:
         | Some of these stories reminded me a bit of the stories of the
         | religious scholar, trickster and scoundrel Nasreddin Hodja, who
         | uses his wits to get the better of kings and sultans.
         | 
         | Nasreddin is AIUI originally a Turkish figure but whose legend
         | exists over the whole Turkish-influenced world from the Balkans
         | to China. Some of the stories have been translated to other
         | cultures- I've definitely heard the one about the time he
         | offers to teach a horse to sing told about a rabbi and the
         | Tsar.
        
       | marethyu wrote:
       | I thought it was talking about Boruto's Kashin Koji.
        
         | Onavo wrote:
         | Jiraiya!
        
       | vunderba wrote:
       | _Other legends about Koji include the time he was drinking with
       | Akechi Mitsuhide -- who betrayed Nobunaga and forced him to
       | commit suicide -- when he summoned a ship from a painting in the
       | traitorous samurai's possession, flooding his house._
       | 
       | Love this visual, vaguely reminds me of when the painting of the
       | ship, the Dawn Treader, in the chronicles of narnia comes alive.
        
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