Category: Digging for Myth

  • The Melon Princess and The Heavenly Demon

    I’ve got quite a few subscribers to my blog who aren’t following me on other social media thingies, so I wanted to post a little update. Aside from my podcast (Uncanny Japan), I have this other side hustle I’m very passionate about. That is, digging up obscure Japanese folktales, translating, retelling/reimagining them, and then recording…

  • November’s Been Good — Goro Awase

    My November Uncanny Japan podcast was about goro awase (語呂合わせ), a kind of Japanese, number word play. I give a few examples there and thought I was done with the topic when yesterday during every single one of my classes I heard the elementary school students ask kids from other schools if they had been…