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The Japanese examine life with the keenest of eyes, the
most vivid and peculiar of imaginations. Nothing is as
simple as it seems. Cats don’t merely age and die,
sometimes they grow two tales and learn the art of
necromancy. Your neighbor isn’t merely an eccentric old
woman; she might very well be a shape-shifting, grudge-
harboring water sprite. Something as innocuous as
waking to find your pillow at the foot of your futon could
very well be the mischievous work of a makura gaeshi --
otherwise known as a pillow turner.
When I came to Japan nearly eighteen years ago, I
expected to fall in love with martial arts and tea
ceremony, manga and
not with these ghostly creatures that have so stolen my
heart.
most vivid and peculiar of imaginations. Nothing is as
simple as it seems. Cats don’t merely age and die,
sometimes they grow two tales and learn the art of
necromancy. Your neighbor isn’t merely an eccentric old
woman; she might very well be a shape-shifting, grudge-
harboring water sprite. Something as innocuous as
waking to find your pillow at the foot of your futon could
very well be the mischievous work of a makura gaeshi --
otherwise known as a pillow turner.
When I came to Japan nearly eighteen years ago, I
expected to fall in love with martial arts and tea
ceremony, manga and
not with these ghostly creatures that have so stolen my
heart.
Thersa Matsuura
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