Tag: Japanese folklore

  • The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan

    The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan

    from Smithsonian.com: “On the flat top of a steep hill in a distant corner of northern Japan lies the tomb of an itinerant shepherd who, two millennia ago, settled down there to grow garlic. He fell in love with a farmer’s daughter named Miyuko, fathered three kids and died at the ripe old age of…

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