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izmeel·5d agoThe Smallest Bird Wore the Crown: A Tale of the Wren Who Rode an EagleA Passenger Among the Feathers
izmeel·6d agoThe Night Is Not Yours: Two Old Japanese Rules About Nail Clippers and WhistlingWhy grandparents across Japan warned against trimming your nails or whistling after dark, and what those warnings may have been protecting.
izmeel·Nov 1The Winter in the Bear’s Den: A Japanese Folktale of Gratitude, Silence, and the MatagiA Blizzard, a Rock Hollow, and a Paw to LickA response icon2A response icon2
izmeel·Oct 29The Mountain Goddess Who Loved an Ugly Fish: Okoze and the Yama no KamiA folktale from the hunters and woodcutters of Japan’s mountain villages
izmeel·Oct 27Saburo of the Wind: The Boy Who Came with the Late-Summer StormsIn the mountain villages of northern and central Japan, people once spoke of a wind that had a name, a family, and a temper.
Francesco Maria Furno·Oct 25Therians and the Digital Decency PoliceWhen a minority aesthetic goes viral, the algorithm does the rest. On narrative identity, animals and the policing of what’s acceptable.
Taylor Stanford·Oct 23Connecting with Nature Isn't Just Hugging TreesHow we must rethink our relationship with nature in order to preserve it
