Ghost Stories kaidanbanashi 怪談話
In summer in Japan it is custom to tell stories about ghosts and gruesome events, so people will get a chill from it to keep cool. :o).
Here in our mountains it is cool anyway, but walking at night beside the family graves, at full moon, you might get some inspiration !
lonely graves
spooking away the ghosts -
summer in Japan
© Gabi Greve, May 2005
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Japanese art, ghosts and Buddhism:
Botan Doro 牡丹灯篭 Botan Dōrō The Peony Lantern
The setting of this story is based in Koyasan where the local Buddhist priest was telling the story of Botan Doro (The Peony Lantern). People had been waiting ages because they knew that he could tell ghost stories with passion and the setting was very mysterious.
。。。。。 Ogiwara Shinnojo was a samurai warrior but his heart was full of woe because he was a widower. At night he felt so alone and memories of the past came back to haunt him and it appeared that he would never feel the fluttering heart of love again.
... The Buddhist priest telling the story then said that "Their eyes gazed on Ogiwara because his corpse was entangled with Otsuyu for the last time but it appeared that the final minutes were full of fear judging by the face of Ogiwara." The priest continued by commenting that "After Ogiwara entered the crypt it shut by itself once he embraced Otsuyu to make love to her but this time she would never let him go. Therefore, the last few minutes of his life were ended in a perverse and panic stricken nature because now he could see the truth but it was too late because the shadow of death swallowed him up."
Lee Jay Walker
source : moderntokyotimes.com
美男美女灯籠にてらす迷ひかな
binan bijo toorooni terasu mayoi kana
a handsome man and a handsome woman
in the light of a lantern
lost on the way . . .
Are these two from our world? or are they from the other world? It is O-Bon and all is possible.
. Takarai Kikaku 宝井其角 .
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In summer in Japan it is custom to tell stories about ghosts and gruesome events, so people will get a chill from it to keep cool. :o).
Here in our mountains it is cool anyway, but walking at night beside the family graves, at full moon, you might get some inspiration !
lonely graves
spooking away the ghosts -
summer in Japan
© Gabi Greve, May 2005
.
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Japanese art, ghosts and Buddhism:
Botan Doro 牡丹灯篭 Botan Dōrō The Peony Lantern
The setting of this story is based in Koyasan where the local Buddhist priest was telling the story of Botan Doro (The Peony Lantern). People had been waiting ages because they knew that he could tell ghost stories with passion and the setting was very mysterious.
。。。。。 Ogiwara Shinnojo was a samurai warrior but his heart was full of woe because he was a widower. At night he felt so alone and memories of the past came back to haunt him and it appeared that he would never feel the fluttering heart of love again.
... The Buddhist priest telling the story then said that "Their eyes gazed on Ogiwara because his corpse was entangled with Otsuyu for the last time but it appeared that the final minutes were full of fear judging by the face of Ogiwara." The priest continued by commenting that "After Ogiwara entered the crypt it shut by itself once he embraced Otsuyu to make love to her but this time she would never let him go. Therefore, the last few minutes of his life were ended in a perverse and panic stricken nature because now he could see the truth but it was too late because the shadow of death swallowed him up."
Lee Jay Walker
source : moderntokyotimes.com
美男美女灯籠にてらす迷ひかな
binan bijo toorooni terasu mayoi kana
a handsome man and a handsome woman
in the light of a lantern
lost on the way . . .
Are these two from our world? or are they from the other world? It is O-Bon and all is possible.
. Takarai Kikaku 宝井其角 .
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