settimaOct 4

妖怪百物語 [Yōkai hyakumonogatari / Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters] (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1968)

Oct

4

One-hundred monsters! (via). DPs: Yasukazu Takemura & Shōzō Tanaka.

[A favourite] horror movie with more than one bad guy*

 

A shrine must give way to a brothel, and a game of supernatural storytelling follows. At the end of the spooky tales, the landowner neglects to complete the all-important purification ceremony resulting in one-hundred yōkai – one for each story – coming out to haunt the rich man and his cronies.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #KimiyoshiYasuda #JunFujimaki #JunHamamura #MiwaTakada #TakashiKanda #KeikoKoyanagi #TaketoshiNaitō #ChumeiWatanabe #YasukazuTakemura #ShōzōTanaka #samurai #ghosts #monsters #horror #kaiju #yōkai #tokusatsu #Japan #1960s ★★★½

Show threadbs2Oct 28, 2023
> Like many of their #samurai forbears, whose attitudes in practice often belied the honoured status theoretically accorded to the farmer in #feudalSociety, they could not help regarding the peasantry as a remote, barely human species whose welfare certainly did not concern them. The instinctive assumption was, therefore, that any restriction of the mine’s activities in the interests of mere #peasants was unthinkable.
#KennethStrong in #OxAgainstTheStorm biography of #TanakaShozo #ShozoTanaka
bs2Oct 28, 2023

Night, a cold hard rain
Bull pulls a loaded cart
No wheel tracks remain

Struck hard by the rain
Bull pulls funeral wagon
Nothing left after

This might be the(a?) source for #KennethStrong's book title _Ox Against The Storm: A biography of Tanana Shozo - Japan's Conservationist Pioneer

But isn't an ox a neutered bull?
En Mexicano: ¿Si, buey?

> 大雨にうたれたゝかれ重荷挽く　うしのあゆみのあとかたもなし
http://www8.plala.or.jp/kawakiyo/kiyo43_01.htm
#ShozoTanaka #正造 #TanakaShozo
#田中正造 #うしのあゆみ #OxAgainstTheStorm #BullThruStorm #BullInRain

田中正造の狂歌集

サイト管理人「KAWAKIYO」が住んでいる佐野市、そこから輩出された偉人「田中正造」について詳細にわたり掲載。また、佐野市の今をリアルに伝えます。

bs2Oct 19, 2023

Tanaka Shozo on Water has me thinking of LaoTzu's (LaoTse's LaoZi's) Chapter 8 and a book about pump storage dams and how they drive up the cost of electricity as they service nuclear reactors.

#ShozoTanaka #TanakaShozo #YuTanaka #TanakaYu #Water #OnWater

https://terebess.hu/english/tao/waley.html#Kap08
#ArthurWaley's verson of #TaoDeChing? #LaoTzu #LaoTse #LaoZi

Tao Te Ching, English by Arthur Waley - Terebess Asia Online (TAO)

bs2Oct 11, 2023
Why didn't I start reading Shozo Tanaka years ago? He's making me think of Wendell Berry looking to Nature as Measure, how people should look to forests, mountains as models...
English: https://apjjf.org/-Robert-Stolz/2331/article.html
日本語: https://besobernow-yuima.blogspot.com/2013/11/japan-focus.html
code: https://codeberg.org/bsmall2/view-tables/src/branch/main/Tanaka-Shouzou/flow-v-poison
#ShozoTanaka #RobertStolz #TanakaShozo #田中正造 #谷中学 #流対毒 #FlowVsPoison
Remake Politics, Not Nature: Tanaka Shozo's Philosophies of 'Poison' and 'Flow' and Japan's Environment

Remake Politics, Not Nature: Tanaka Shozo’s Philosophies of “Poison” and “Flow” and Japan’s Environment  Japanese translation available By Robert Stolz Tanaka

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Show threadbs2Sep 1, 2022
When you call your wife, you should call her by her name.
--- Shouzou Tanaka
#ShōzōTanaka #TanakaShozo #TanakaShouzou #TanakaShōzō
> According to Yanakagaku thought, the Japanese state's construction of dams and sluices inhibits the natural [Nagare] flow of the river, thereby increasing Doku [Poison].
#YanakaGaku