{"id":511,"date":"2006-03-30T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T13:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/03\/know-your-japanese-mythological-beasts-part-1\/"},"modified":"2006-03-30T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T13:01:02","slug":"know-your-japanese-mythological-beasts-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/03\/30\/know-your-japanese-mythological-beasts-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Know your Japanese Mythological Beasts (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question 1<\/b>
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\nWhat has the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the legs of a tiger, and the tail of a snake?
\nHint #1: Eating it is thought to cure the hiccups (I wonder what it tastes like and how it is prepared. I imagine it would make a decent miso-based nabe…).
\nHint #2: Miyamoto Musashi supposedly killed one of these with a lance.<\/i>
\nanswer<\/a>
\nQuestion 2<\/b>
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\nThis mythical creature is native to mountain passes in Kumamoto. What is it?
\nHint #1: They have a potato-like head (or a stone one), and a straw covered body.
\nHint #2: Monks who stole oil are said to have been punished by being transformed into one of these.<\/i>
\nanswer<\/a>
\nQuestion 3<\/b>
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\nThis monster is a humanoid with blackish-green skin, luminescent eyes, and a pointed beard. It is rarely seen by man because it lives in an underwater kingdom.
\nHint #1: Combine the kanji for “shark” and “person” to make this.<\/i>
\nanswer<\/a>
\nQuestion 4<\/b>
\nWhat is the Japanese Will ‘o the Wisp?
\nHint #1: A possible explanation for these phenomena is methane gas rising from the graves of decomposing corpses.
\nHint #2: Combine the kanji for “ball” and “person”.<\/i>
\nanswer<\/a>
\nQuestion 5<\/b>
\nWhat mythological creature resembles a snake, can speak to humans (but often lies), enjoys alcoholic beverages, can leap 1 meter, and has never been captured in spite of many reported sightings?
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\nHint #1: It appeared in Doraemon, where it was reported to be about 60cm in length.
\nHint #2: The kanji for earth and child are used to write its name.<\/i>
\nanswer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question 1 What has the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the legs of a tiger, and the tail of a snake? Hint #1: Eating it is thought to cure the hiccups (I wonder what it tastes like and how it is prepared. I imagine it would make a decent miso-based nabe…). … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}