#fudoki

[arita-hello]

松江のお菓子屋さんクロードのクッキー詰め合わせ「風土記」のパッケージデザインと宍道湖のオリジナルイラストレーション。

[buri-art]

Shinto Myths in Comic Form

I lived in Japan’s San’in Region (home to the famous Izumo Taisha and the stage of about a third of the Kojiki myths) 2012-2016, during which time I wrote a dedicated blog about the region, but the blog is now mostly defunct due to technical difficulties. I undertook a major project doing research on the local myths, traveling to the spots where they took place (hunting for obscure shrines in the middle of nowhere, ah, what great memories), and writing English language comics about the myths. The purpose was to educate, entertain, and promote the relatively unknown but wonderful region as a tourism destination. This was not a purely academic project, but my comics and illustrations have been used in a lot of academic projects. As such, I’d like them to still be available to the world, and am sharing the link to the zipped folder of them here. 

PLEASE ENJOY, SHARE, AND USE THEM AS YOU PLEASE.  Download link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1p21R8NlurABfGRSZAtu4pUAyDuUEzQ-d

Stories included:  Story 1: To Yomi and Back Again Based on Kuni-umi, Kami-umi, & Yomi-no-Kuni Houmon

Story 2: Intoxicating the Serpent Based on Yamata-no-Orochi Taiji

Story 3: The Hairless Hare of Inaba Based on Inaba no Shiro-Usagi

Story 4: Heave, ho! Kuni, ko! ~Based on the Izumo-no-Kuni Fudoki myth Kunibiki~

Story 5: Fatal and Fateful Trials Based on Yasogami no Hakugai & Ne-no-Kuni Houmon

Story 6: Beauty and the Crocasharkagator ~ Based on the Izumo-no-Kuni Fudoki myth Shitaiyama~

Story 7: Growing Pains of the Land and Family Based on Okuninushi-no-mikoto no Tsumadoi & Sukunabikona-no-kami to Kuni-tsukuri ~PLUS!: Shichifukujin, some background info on the Seven Lucky Gods~

Story 8: Birth and Bright Light  ~ Based on the Izumo-no-Kuni Fudoki myth Sada-no-Okami Tanjou~

Story 9: Relinquishing the Land Based on Kuniyuzuri

Also included: photos from myth related sites.

[katiesclassicbooks]

"A child (or a cat) is not awed by the same wonders that an adult is, because everything is equally new and therefore wonderous. My nurse (and the adult I became) sees or imagines a comet and is struck dumb by the beauty of it. A child has not seen so much that she knows that ice on the trees is common, and a comet rare and therefore precious. It is only age that tells us what is precious, what is new. Now that I am old, I think I have perhaps come back to this perception. I cannot afford to wait for another comet, and so I watch the tiny things of each day and am amazed by them"

- Fudoki by Kij Johnson

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Title: Love/War/Death

Author: Kij Johnson

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2000

Genres: fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, romance, mythology

Blurb: Yoshifuji is a man fascinated by foxes, a man discontented and troubled by the meaning of life. A misstep at court forces him to retire to his long-deserted country estate to rethink his plans and contemplate the next move that might return him to favour and guarantee his family’s prosperity. Kitsune is a young fox who is fascinated by the large creatures that have suddenly invaded her world. She is drawn to them and to Yoshifuji; she comes to love him, and will do anything to become a human woman to be with him. Shikujo is Yoshifuji’s wife, ashamed of her husband, yet in love with him and uncertain of her role in his world. She is confused by his fascination with the creatures of the wood, and especially the foxes that she knows in her heart are harbingers of danger. She sees him slipping away, and is determined to win him back from the wild...for all that she has her own fox-related secret. Magic binds them all; and in the making (and breaking) of oaths and honours, the patterns of their lives will be changed forever.

[fairlycaught]

Today does not follow yesterday; now follows other nows.

Kij Johnson, Fudoki

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The constant talking didn't bother her, for cats use their voices to say 'here I am, where are you?' and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation. ― Kij Johnson, Fudoki

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[katiesclassicbooks]

"She was learning something about grief, that it begins with a great blow, but heals with a thousand tiny strokes."

-Fudoki by Kij Johnson