In #JapaneseFolklore tanuki are a shapeshifting #yokai with a special talent involving their magical expanding scrotums. #Ukiyoe artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicted them in a series of prints that are perfect for today's #WyrdWednesday. And these are just the tip of the tanuki testicle iceberg. 1/2

In #JapaneseFolklore tanuki are a shapeshifting #yokai with a special talent involving their magical expanding scrotums. #Ukiyoe artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicted them in a series of prints that are perfect for today's #WyrdWednesday. And these are just the tip of the tanuki testicle iceberg. 1/2

The Bamboo Cutter is a Japanese folktale, considered by some to be the earliest science fiction story. Princess Kaguya was a miniature girl found by an old bamboo cutter inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant. It was later discovered that she came to... #MythologyMonday #JapaneseFolklore 1/3