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✨ Out Now ✨ The Yōkai Oracle Deck ~ 60 cards, 60 creatures, 60 nuggets of Japanese wisdom 🙌

Today's card of the day 🍀 ...

Gorgeous artwork by @pokgtu.bsky.social <-- Thank you 🙏

#adamsmedia #uncannyjapan #yokai #oracle #japanesefolklore #oraclecards #oraclereading #cardoftheday🔮 #newrelease
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Newest #UncannyJapan episode (#186) is out now ✨🐸✨. I talk about the awesome sorceress, Takiyasha Hime, and her deadly cohort, Gashadokuro <-- He wants to drink your blood.

#spectrevisionradio #yokai #gashadokuro #takiyashahime
March 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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The latest episode of #UncannyJapan just went up. It's a delightful dreary mishmash of all things rain & rainy season.

⚠️🌧️Listen past the end credits! R added several minutes of beautifully recorded rain sounds from our veranda. Longer version going up on patreon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASrA...
May 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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A #creepy #shortstory about The Rain Woman / Ame Onna.

#Jhorror #japan #horror #scary

Listen here 🎧 --> tinyurl.com/bddt3mzz

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October 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Special Halloween episode 😱 -- a skit about Sukima Onna (the Woman in the Gaps).

Listen here 📻:
open.spotify.com/episode/2uPM...

#spectrevisionradio #spectrevision
#uncannyjapan #japan #jhorror #hauntedhouse #sukimaonna #sukimaonnathegapwoman #halloween2025
What Empty Spaces Need (Audio Drama) (Ep. 181)
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November 1, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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In the latest Fire Horse episode, I also talk about the legend of Yayoiya Oshishi -- the lovestruck girl who tragically ended up being burned at the stake. 😢💔🔥

Episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/2RBx...

#uncannyjapan #spectrevisionradio
February 23, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Here's one of the scariest episodes of the show 👹 I think

Episode 52: Putting a Curse on Your Enemies

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#happyhalloween #horror
#scary #halloween #podcast
October 31, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Meet Abura-zemi. The name literally means "oil cicada." My understanding is that the long buzzing call sounds like oil frying in a pan ~ Jiiiiiii~...

Very appropriate for August in Japan🔥. It was the oil cicada, by the way, who provided the backdrop for the last #uncannyjapan episode.
brown cicada on tree.
August 7, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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First samurai and flying severed head, huh? huh?

The latest episode of #uncannyjapan is up.

#podcast #japan Let's learn about Taira no Masakado and how he's still around today just waiting to throw a curse on someone💀

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8O4...
🏯 The Cursed Severed Head: Taira no Masakado (Ep. 175)
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July 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I put up a free post and a poll about ideas on how to move forward with the podcast. I've got my own thoughts and ideas, but I'd love to hear from you, too 💕🙏. #uncannyjapan

www.patreon.com/posts/going-...
Going Forward: Thoughts and Thoughts? | Uncanny Japan -- Thersa Matsuura
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March 1, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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A delightfully creepy word for "twilight" and why do we even say "moshi moshi" when answering a phone anyway? Hint: Also, delightfully creepy!

New episode of #uncannyjapan is up:

uncannyjapan.com/podcast/mosh...

#japan #podcast #creepy
drawing of street at dusk, foreground a girl looking at her phone with shiny eyes
August 15, 2024 at 10:52 AM
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"Harnessing your Own Dragon God".

Newest (sponsor free) episode of #UncannyJapan is up. All about the Dragon God (Ryūjin) and dragons in general and how to connect with some dragon energy.

uncannyjapan.com/podcast/drag...
thumbnail art of dragon with some coral in the background. Uncanny Japan Episode 169 written. Harnessing your Own Dragon God. Ryujin.
April 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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VR chat with family is like the best thing ever. Here I am (Gray) with my son's GF (she made #uncannyjapan 's avatar for me💕!--but I haven't been able to clone it yet😅.) We farted around Xmas worlds, played poker, & tried to escape a really, really scary escape room.
vr chat screenshot of a gray alien and the uncanny japan logo.
December 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Slap on those headphones & listen to an immersive episode @ the Sun Goddess Amaterasu's wildly unhinged little brother Susanoo. Tantrums, dragons, & royal defection await you.

Latest episode of #UncannyJapan is up wherever you listen to podcasts & YT, too.

tinyurl.com/4eej5xfn

#Japan #myth
Ukiyoe image of a man with black hair and a beard holding a sword, one foot on a bowl of some liquid (it's sake). A dragon is flying towards him in the distance.
June 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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...lost ghosts (in houses), strange noises (in walls), and eggplant cows🍆, as well as other nifty welcoming the ancestors home and sending them back to the "other side" traditions.

#spectrevisionradio #spectrevision #uncannyjapan #Japan #obon
August 4, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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Ad Free version of the next #uncannyjapan is up for patrons. "The Golden Pavilion Has Weird Ghosts"

Two more sponsored shows in the mini series, then we'll be back to the regularly scheduled shows. Next one is going to be yummy!

tinyurl.com/mvxhwpha
image of golden pavilion on top of mount fuji in the background, words say Explore small group adventures, episode 166.
February 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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New Episode! --> What is your throat Buddha? Yes, you have one and if you live in Japan, it'll be plucked from the ashes after cremation.

Also, I'll read you my short story: "The Buddha Bone" (Weird Horror).

open.spotify.com/episode/0mXc...

#uncannyjapan #podcast #japan #spectrevisionradio
Everyone Has a Throat Buddha / What is it and Why? -- Nodohotoke & Story Time: "The Buddha Bone" (Ep. 189)
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May 6, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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What an adorable little rainy day talisman, the teru teru bōzu😍. But wait! What's this about chopping off heads😱?

It's all here on the newest #uncannyjapan complete with some binaural spring rain sounds from outside my window.

Have you ever made one? Did it work?

Here: tinyurl.com/bdh3tanu
a ghost-looking talisman hanging in rainy window
March 15, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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Wow your friends! Terrify your neighbors!

All the sticky, enticing secrets of the Jorō Spider on today's episode of #uncannyjapan

You can listen here: tinyurl.com/4y33razm

#jorogumo #jorōgumo #japan #folklore #japanesefolklore
drawing of woman in kimono with six spider legs and six threads with baby spider attached
June 15, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Who is that odd tiny fellow made of flesh or straw (?) squirming in a fisherman's net begging, "Please don't kill me. I can help you!" ?

It's the Wave Boy, of course!

I tell you all about him and his various tales through the ages on #UncannyJapan #namikozo

Here: tinyurl.com/mr4bbmnk
Statue of boy carrying net over shoulder, beach in background
February 17, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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I've been working non stop for the past two days to make images/art for the video for the next #uncannyjapan episode.

I may be going a little loopy.

Damn fun though.

Brownie points for anyone who can guess the topic. Not sure you can from this one, but she's part of the overall story.
image of old goddess ukemochi, spewing wild game from her mouth, the mouth is a real person's mouth cut and pasted on the old image.
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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The Three Winter Friends are Pine, Bamboo, and Plum--shōchikubai. They are both loaded with New Year's auspiciousness when found together & cleverly linked to the the yūkaku--red light district of old Japan.

I explain it all in the latest #uncannyjapan here:
tinyurl.com/2sxzxkxb

#podcast #japan
image of a bamboo some plum flowers and some pine design
December 18, 2023 at 2:29 AM
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New episode. Let's talk about the epic and incendiary folktale of Anchin and Kiyohime.

#uncannyjapan #Japan #dragon #podcast

uncannyjapan.com/podcast/anch...
drawing of a dragon wrapped around a bell
August 1, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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An introduction to the contents by the author, Thersa Matsuura.
作者のThersa Matsuuraさんによる中身紹介。
たくさんイラスト入ってます！

【Legends of Japanese Mythology】
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ご予約はこちら↑

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Thersa Matsuura on Instagram: "A book-shaped ✨dream✨ just arrived at my door ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶! I just opened my very first copy of Legends of Japan, my new middle-grade book filled with 50 Japanese heroes, ...
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July 24, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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Things that stalk you at night in Japan: The Betobeto-san Vs The Teke Teke.

We did a fun -- dare I say, frightening -- sound immersive episode. I recommend lights out and headphones on.

#UncannyJapan Youtube: youtu.be/gmz9mU7bCs4?...

#podcast #horror #yokai #Japan #urbanlegend
a round bodies blue yokai with two legs and a big mouth beside a female teke teke, top half of a woman crawling toward you
June 3, 2024 at 2:58 AM