A collection of three scary stories from medieval Japan, all featuring famous early samurai and told using real pre-modern artwork!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
2:07 Hidesato and the Mukade
13:09 Yorimitsu and the Tsuchigumo
25:49 Yorimasa and the Nue
33:07 Outro
Original source texts:
Gamō Ujisato: Shōnen Meishō (1934) (https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1...)
Tsuchigumo-zōshi (https://longuemare.gozaru.jp/hon/tuch...)
Shōnen Nihon Densetsu Dokuhon (https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1...)
Music:
Peritune
Dova Syndrome (Artist: スエノブ)
Tam Music Factory (https://www.tam-music.com/)
Music-Note.jp (https://www.music-note.jp/)
H/MIX GALLERY (http://www.hmix.net/)
Myself (Final beat)
Sound effects:
効果音ラボ (https://soundeffect-lab.info/)
Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/)
Eエスフェクツ (https://esffects.net/)
Images
(1) Hidesato and the Mukade
Tawara Tōda Hidesato Emaki (The National Diet Library)
Hidesato Sōshi (Kunaichō)
Tawara Tōda (Keio University Libraries)
Tawara Tōda Hidesato (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Tawara Tōda Monogatari (Chester Beatty Online Collections)
My Lord Bag-O’-Rice by Basil Hall Chamberlain
(2) Yorimitsu and the Tsuchigumo
Tsuchigumo-zōshi (ColBase)
(3) Yorimasa and the Nue
Various out-of-copyright print materials from the late Edo and early Meiji periods. About 90% of the images are directly related to the story, and about 10% are unrelated but "look the part."
Any other images used likely came from one of the following wonderful web resources:
The National Diet Library Digital Collections (https://dl.ndl.go.jp/)
The Waseda University Library (https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotensek...)
The Tokyo Metropolitan Library (https://www.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/)
Colbase (https://colbase.nich.go.jp/?locale=ja)
Penn Libraries (http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/fish...)
The Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works (http://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp/?ln=ja)
The Hiroshima University Library (http://dc.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/text/)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The British Museum
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Kyoto University, National Institute of Japanese Literature
Photo AC (https://www.photo-ac.com/)
Illust AC (https://www.ac-illust.com/)
Translated, written, and edited by Buyuuden Japanese History.