Episode 10: Hungry Ghosts (Gaki)
Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
English - September 13, 2017 06:00 - 15 minutes - 14.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture History japan hyperbolicparaboloid japanese japaneseculture japanesefolklore japanesefolktales japanesehistory japaneselanguage japaneseliterature japanesemyths Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 9: Obon Part Two-Sending Away Fires (Okuribi)
Next Episode: Episode 11: The Devil’s Gate (Kimon)
Careful. Living a life of luxury while being selfish and coveting your neighbors goodies just might lead you to another spin on this Wheel of Life. This means after you die you'll be reborn not as a human again, not even as a squirrel in someone's backyard. You might just come back as a hungry ghost, and let me tell you why that's not a very good thing.
This month's podcast is about Japanese hungry ghosts or gaki in Japanese. Not for the feint of heart.
Notes: The intro/outro music of Uncanny Japan is a song by Christiaan Virant (“Yi Gui” from Ting Shuo). The whole album is just gorgeous as it everything else by FM3.