April's Bedtime Story: Cat Folk Beliefs and Superstitions (Patreon)

Hello, how is everyone? 

Things in Japan are warming up, lots of rain, spring is toasty and summer feels right around the corner. 

Richard and I are working on an application for an incredibly perfect-for-us (but also incredibly hard to get into) mentorship of sorts. I'm quite nervous about it. They said the application would take about three hours to fill out. Here it is two weeks later and I've been working on the questions for hours every single day. Richard is working on a couple audio clips we have to submit. The deadline is fast approaching, but I think we'll have it done tonight. *fingers crossed* 

Oh, and I tried something new for this month's Bedtime Story. Instead of a folktale, I put together a collection of obscure cat folk beliefs and superstitions. They're a lot of fun, some weird, some make pretty good sense. 

Let me know if there is any other animal you'd like to hear the details about. My little book has ALL the animals. And bugs, too! 

Also, some nekomata artwork that I wanted to share from a couple episodes ago: 

Toriyama Sekien / 鳥山石燕  (1712-1788)

Kawanabe Kyousai / 河鍋暁斎

Utagawa Kuniyoshi / 歌川国芳 (1798-1861)

XOXO,

terrie