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EAR CLEANING TOOL see: mimikaki (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.83)
EAR PICK see: mimikaki (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.83)
EARTHQUAKE OF 1923 see: Kantō Daisinsai (The Anime Companion 2 p.41)
EARTHQUAKES see: jishin (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.54)
- ebisu 恵比須 OLD FORM 惠比須, or 恵比寿 OLD FORM 惠比壽, or 夷 or 戎 or 蛭子(The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.25)
- Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.304
EBISU (PEOPLE) see: Emishi (The Anime Companion 2 p.19)
ECCHI see: hentai (The Anime Companion 2 p.27)
ECONOMIC PLANNING AGENCY see: Keizai Kikaku Chō (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.66)
- edamame えだまめ or 枝豆 (The Anime Companion 2 p.17)
- Sources:
Stores in the SF Bay Area
Condon, Jack and Camy Condon. The Simple Pleasures of Japan p.86
Nagasawa Kimiko & Camy Condon. Eating Cheap in Japan 46, 47, 113 (item)
Eating in Japan p.102
Hosking, Richard. A Dictionary of Japanese Food p.39
- Edo 江戸 OLD FORM 江戶 (The Anime Companion 2 p.18)
- Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.315
De Mente, Boye Lafayette. Japan Encyclopedia p.490
Web Sites:
Edo Japan, A Virtual Tour
EDO See also Tokyo (The Anime Companion 2 p.104)
EDO BAY see: Tōkyō Wan (The Anime Companion 2 p.105)
EDO CASTLE see: Edojō (The Anime Companion 2 p.18)
- Edo Period [Edo Jidai 江戸時代 OLD FORM 江戶時代] (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.25)
- Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.317
- Edo Yagyū 江戸柳生
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When Yagyū Munenori became the sword teacher for the Tokugawa family (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.137) he moved to Edo (The Anime Companion 2 p.18). He then became the head of the branch of the Yagyūshi (Yagyū family) in the Shōgun's (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.123) capital while his father and later his nephew, Yagyū Hyōgonosuke Toshiyoshi, headed the Owari Yagyū at the family's home in Yagyū village.
Manga:
The Edo Yagyū are mentioned in Samurai Legend (p.11) and in Lone Wolf and Cub.
Sources:
Turnbull, Stephen. The Samurai Sourcebook p.90-91
- Edogawa Rampo 江戸川乱歩 OLD FORM 江戶川亂歩 (The Anime Companion 2 p.18)
- Sources:
Edogawa Rampo. Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination, preface by James B. Harris.
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.316
NOTE: In January of 2006 a second volume by Edogawa Rampo was translated into English, The Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows
EDOGAWA WARD see: Edogawa Ku (The Anime Companion 2 p.18)
- Edogawa-ku 江戸川区 OLD FORM 江戶川區 (The Anime Companion 2 p.18)
- Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.316
Tokyo Metropolitan Atlas p.48-49
Web Sites:
Edogawa (official site)
- Edojō (edo castle) 江戸城 OLD FORM 江戶城 (The Anime Companion 2 p.18)
- Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.315
Cybriwsky, Roman. Historical Dictionary of Tokyo p. 46
Waley, Paul. Tokyo Now & Then p. 4
EDOMAEZUSHI see: nigirizushi
EDUCATION MAMA see: kyōiku mama (education mama)
EEL, CHARCOAL BROILED see: kabayaki (charcoal broiled fish)
EELS see: unagi (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.144)
EGGPLANT see: nasu (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.91)
EGG TŌFU see: tamago dōfu (egg tōfu)
EGGS see: tamago (The Anime Companion 2 p.97)
EGG YOKE IN SAKE see: tamago-zake (The Anime Companion 2 p.97)
EIGHT MILLION GODS see: Yao-yorozu-no-kami (eight million gods)
- eiyō drinks (nutritional supplement drinks) 栄養ドリンク (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.26)
- Sources:
Palter, D. C. "Tonic Eiyo Drinks" Mangajin: Japanese Pop Culture & Language Learning No 21 October 1992 pp.12-17
Carroll, John. Trails of Two Cities p.47
- ekiben (station lunch) 駅弁 OLD FORM 驛辨 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.26)
- Outlook on Japan p.152
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.329
Discover Japan v.2 p.58
Eating in Japan p.120
A Look Into Japan p.168
Vardaman, James M. and Michiko Sakaki Vardaman Japanese Etiquette Today p.56
Japanese Inn & Travel p.141-8
Living Japanese Style p.117
Vardaman, James M. and Michiko Sakaki Vardaman Japan From A to Z p.20
- ekisha (fortune tellers) 易者
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Fortune tellers. Until modern times the term ekisha was used for those professional fortune tellers who used the Chinese classic work the I-Ching (Yi-Jing) in their divination. Two visual clues to look for in scenes with fortune tellers are sangi (yin-yang divination block) (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.111) and zeichiku (The Anime Companion 2 p.121), both of which are used in I-Ching divination. In modern times the term has come to include those who do the Chinese forms of palm reading (tesō) as well as face and body reading (ninsō). Some practitioners will work on the street setting up a table on the sidewalk, often near train stations at night.
Anime:
In Pom Poko Oroku becomes a fortune teller and in Otogi Zoshi (ep.15) we find that Urabe has become a ekisha.
In Doomed Megalopolis (ep.2) we see a fortune teller on street at night
Manga:
In chapter 6 of Club 9 Haruo has a fortune teller read her palm and tell her about herself, he gets everything wrong.
In Samurai Executioner (v.6 p.143-4) a young Yamada Asaemon turns to a fortune teller for an answer to a question he has.
Sources:
Illustrated Living Japanese Style p.107
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.329
ELECTRIC RICE COOKER see: denki-gama (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.22)
- ema (votive tablet) 絵馬 OLD FORM 繪馬 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.26)
- Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.332
Outlook on Japan p.125
- Emily (aircraft) 二式飛行艇 (Nishikihikōtei) (The Anime Companion 2 p.19)
- Sources:
Mikesh, Robert C. Japanese Aircraft p.51
- Emishi 蝦夷 (The Anime Companion 2 p.19)
- Sources:
Cambridge History of Japan v.1 p.79, 205, 246
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.354, 1406
EMISSARIES OF TENSHŌ see: Tenshō Ken'ō Shisetsu (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.135)
- en (yen) 円 OLD FORM 圓 (The Anime Companion 2 p.20)
- Sources:
Chamberlain, Basil Hall. Japanese Things p.109
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.1745
Outlook On Japan p. 54
Vardaman, James M. and Michiko Sakaki Vardaman Japan From A to Z p. 28, 127
Web Sites:
Bank of Japan Exchange Rate information.
EN NO OZUNU see: En no Gyōja (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.28)
ENCOURAGING STICK see: keisaku or kyōsaku (Zen stick) (The Anime Companion 2 p.44)
THE END OF THE MONEY IS THE END OF THE RELATIONSHIP see: kane no kireme ga en no kireme
END TILE WITH DEMON FACE see: onigawa (The Anime Companion 2 p.69)
ENGAGEMENT GIFTS see: yuinō (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.149)
- engawa (veranda) 縁側 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.27)
- Sources:
Discover Japan v.1 p.76
- Engi Era 延喜 (The Anime Companion 2 p.20)
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Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.342
- enjo kōsai (compensated dating) 援助交際
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Compensated dating. Young women, usually high school girls, agreeing to date older men in exchange for cash or gifts. This is not the same as prostitution as it does not necessarily involve sex. Laws have been passed to reduce this practice including one requiring parental permission for women under 18 to walk around with older men. Terekura (telephone club) and Internet web sites have been used to set up such dates.
Anime and Manga:
Given that GTO involves troubled teens and a teacher who is trouble it is no surprise that enjo kōsai comes up in the series (ep. 15, 24 & 43; v. 16 ch.125).
Manga:
In IWGP: Ikebukuro West Gate Park (v.1 p.92) girls who are the victims of a serial rapist are rumored to have been taking part in compensated dating. One of girls only went out to eat and for karaoke (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.62) and was planning to quit.
In Voyeurs, Inc. (v.1 p.85) two characters talk about an incident that happened during a "paid date" set up through a teleclub.
Sources:
McLelland, Mark J. Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan p.62
Schreiber, Mark editor. Tokyo Confidential p.81
Sinclair, Joan. Pink Box p.186
- enka (popular song style) 演歌 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.27)
- Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.1284
- enkai (party) 宴会 OLD FORM 宴會 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.27)
- Sources:
Japanese Inn & Travel p.72
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.343
ENKIRIDERA see: kakekomidera (refuge temple)
- ennichi (feast days) 縁日 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.28)
- Sources:
Outlook on Japan p.128
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.344
- En no Gyōja 役行者 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.28)
- Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia pp.345, 1423
ENNO-OZUNO see: En no Gyōja (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.28)
ENOKEN see: Enomoto Ken'ichi (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.28)
- Enomoto Ken'ichi 榎本健一 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.28)
- Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.345
- Enoshima 江の島 (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.28)
- Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.345
ENOSHIMA SODACHI NEOI NO CHIGOKIKU see: Aoto-zōshi hana no nishiki
ENTRY WAY WHERE YOU REMOVE YOUR SHOES see Genkan (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.34)
EPA see: Keizai Kikaku Chō (Economic Planning Agency) (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.66)
EQUINOX BEAN CAKE see also: ohagi (The Anime Companion 2 p.66)
EROGURO see: erogro nansensu (erotic-grotesque nonsense)
- eroguro nansensu (erotic-grotesque nonsense) エログロナンセンス
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A shortened version of the phrase erotic-grotesque nonsense, sometimes shortened even further to just eroguro. The term came into use in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s when it was used by the mass media to describe the times. This was during the late Taishō jidai (The Anime Companion 2 p.95) in the 1920s but especially in the very early Shōwa jidai (The Anime Companion 2 p.88) during the depression of the early 1930s when Euro-American entertainment quickly increased in urban Japan, especially Osaka and Tokyo. Some of the forms it took were jazz, the proliferation of bars, dance clubs, review theaters, chorus girls, comedians like Enomoto Ken'ichi (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.28), coffee shops (kissaten; The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.70), movies, and other modern and fast paced entertainment. The conservative forces of the time denounced the eroguro nansensu phenomenon as decadent.
Manga:
Tezuka remarks in Adolf (v.1 p.117) that by the mid 1930s during the expansion of militarism "ero-guro-nonsense" still was in the imaginations of the average citizen.
Sources:
Kurosawa Akira. Something Like an Autobiography 71
Richie, Donald, Tokyo p.120
Seidensticker, Edward, Tokyo Rising p.59-60, 82
Silverberg, Miriam, Erotic Grotesque Nonsense p.xv-xvi, 28-30, 183
- eromanga (erotic manga) エロ漫画
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Erotic manga (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.80), sometimes called porunomanga. These are sexually explicit manga mainly made for men. In the English speaking world the term hentai-manga has come into use. However this use of the word hentai (The Anime Companion 2 p.27) is not the way the Japanese use it.
Manga:
Many such manga have been translated into English, some of the most noted authors include Yui Toshiki (Hot Tales, Misty Girl Extreme, Wingding Orgy), Ogami Wolf (Super Taboo), Kondom (Bondage Fairies), and Utatane Hiroyuki (Countown Sex Bombs, Temptation),
Sources:
Lehmann, Timothy R. Manga: Masters of the Art p.246
Shigematsu Setsu "Dimensions of Desire: Sex, Fantasy, and Fetish in Japanese Comics" in Themes & Issues in Asian Cartooning p. 131
EROTIC ART see: shunga (The Anime Companion 2 p.89)
EROTIC GROTESQUE NONSENSE see: eroguro nansensu (erotic-grotesque nonsense)
EROTIC MANGA see: eromanga
ESOTERIC BUDDHISM see: mikkyō (The Anime Companion 2 p.56)
ESOTERIC TEACHING, BUDDHIST see: mikkyō (The Anime Companion 2 p.56)
ETCHI see: hentai (The Anime Companion 2 p.27)
- Etorofu 択捉
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The largest, 3,139 sq km (1,212 sq mi), of the disputed islands of the Northern Territories (see Hoppō Ryōdo modai). Etorofu is a volcanic island located North East of the main island of Hokkaidō (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.46) just beyond Kunashirito Island. To the North of Etorofu is the Sea of Okhotsk and South is the Pacific Ocean. Hitokappu Bay on the island is where the Japanese fleet began it's mission to attack Pearl Harbor.
Anime and Manga:
In both the Ghost in the Shell manga ("07 Phantom Fund", 2nd ed p.151-) and the Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG (ep.6) TV series the Major travels to Etorofu.
Anime:
The Etorofu smuggling route is mentioned Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode 18. Etorofu itself is mentioned later in episode 19.
Sources:
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia p.351
Road Atlas Japan 230
EULALIA see: susuki (pampas grass) (The Anime Companion 2 p.94)
EXAMINATION HELL see: Shiken Jigoku (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.118)
EXERCISE IN PARK see: rajio taisō (The Anime Companion 2 p.72)
EXORCISM see: Tsukimono otoshi (The Anime Companion [vol.1] p.140)
EXPRESSWAY BAYSHORE LINE see: shuto kōsoku wangan sen (The Anime Companion 2 p.90)
EXPRESSWAYS see: kōsoku dōro (The Anime Companion 2 p.50)
EYEBROWS SHAVEN see: okimayu
EZO (PEOPLE) see: Emishi (The Anime Companion 2 p.19)
EZOHITSUJIGUSA see: suiren (water lily)
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