Byōbunozoki
Byōbunozoki (
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"Byōbunozoki" from Toriyama Sekien "Konjaku Hyakki Shūi"
Overview
According to the commentary in The One Hundred Demons, the Byōbunozoki is a monster who looks at a person from the outside of a folding screen, and looks beyond the 7-inch folding screen.[1] According to Chinese classics, the Qin Shio emperor jumped over the screen of Xianyang Palace when he was about to be murdered.[2][3][4]
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gollark: Yes, probably, but that's not... what most programs actually do?
gollark: JSON and CBOR and whatnot are good formats for structured data, and you can parse those easily into structured data in your language of choice with about a gazillion tools (there's even `jq` for shell scripting!), and exchange them nicely over HTTP/TCP/whatever networking thing.
gollark: Which tends to be made up ad-hoc and be some terrible hard to parse thing.
gollark: If you want to translate structured data, which is what programs mostly operate on, into plaintext, you need some other format on top of that.
gollark: No, it's not, it's an... encoding, I guess.
References
- 稲田篤信・田中直日編 (1992). 鳥山石燕 画図百鬼夜行. 高田衛監修. 国書刊行会. p. 238. ISBN 978-4-336-03386-4.
- 村上健司編著 (2000). 妖怪事典. 毎日新聞社. p. 290. ISBN 978-4-620-31428-0.
- 山田野理夫 (1974). 東北怪談の旅. 自由国民社. pp. 143–144.
- 多田克己 (1990). 幻想世界の住人たち. Truth In Fantasy. IV. 新紀元社. p. 268. ISBN 978-4-915146-44-2.
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