Kitsune Meaning: The Nine-Tailed Fox of Japanese Folklore
What kitsune are, why their tails multiply, the difference between good and wild foxes, and how the fox became one of Japan's most tattooed...
FIELD NOTES
Buying guides, material notes and the stories behind the prints. Written by the people who make the clothes, not by a content farm.
Oni, Akuma and Yōkai: Japanese Demons Explained
The difference between oni, akuma and yōkai, why oni have horns and tiger-skin loincloths, what happens at Setsubun, and how Japanese demons ended up...
Why cyberpunk is so Japanese
The genre was written in North America and looks like Tokyo. The accident of timing behind it, what Akira and Ghost in the Shell...
Cyberpunk Anime: The Series That Built the Aesthetic
Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Lain, Texhnolyze and the rest — what each one contributed to the look, and the three rules they all...