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Baku (mythology)

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must be done sparingly, because if he remains hungry after eating one's nightmare, he may also devour their hopes and desires as well, leaving them to live an empty life. The
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can also be summoned for protection from bad dreams prior to falling asleep at night. In the 1910s, it was common for Japanese children to keep a
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is depicted with an elephant's head, tusks, and trunk, with horns and tiger's claws. The elephant's head, trunk, and tusks are characteristic of
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with very similar attributes that was also able to devour nightmares. Legend has it that a person who wakes up from a bad dream can call out to
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Hori Tadao 2005 "Cultural note on dreaming and dream study in the future: Release from nightmare and development of dream control technique,"
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will come into the child's room and devour the bad dream, allowing the child to go back to sleep peacefully. However, calling to the
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Before its adaptation to the Japanese dream-caretaker myth creature, an early 17th-century Japanese manuscript, the
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Nakagawa Masako (1999). "Sankai ibutsu: An early seventeenth-century Japanese illustrated manuscript".
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has two current meanings, referring to both the traditional dream-devouring creature and to the
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Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook culture and the kibyoshi of Edo Japan
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that are said to devour nightmares. They originate from the Chinese
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and relates them to other preventatives against nightmare such as
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sculpture at the Konnoh Hachimangu Shrine, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
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Netsuke: masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Index

Baku (spirit)

Hokusai


supernatural beings
Mo
Japanese folklore
art
manga
anime
Malayan tapir
Chinese folklore
mo
giant panda
Muromachi period
amulets
Kaii-Yōkai Denshō Database
chimera
elephant
rhinoceros
cow
bear
tiger
Meiji
netsuke
Meiji period
Lafcadio Hearn
Baku sculpture at the Konnoh Hachimangu Shrine, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Shibuya

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