Namahage

Japanese folklore character associated with new year's ritual
Event annual_event Q1133889
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Namahage

Summary

Namahage is an annual event[1]. Namahage draws 152 Wikipedia views per month (annual_event category, ranking #40 of 238).[2]

Key Facts

  • Namahage is in the country of Japan[3].
  • Namahage's image is recorded as Straw namahage.2.jpg[4].
  • Namahage's instance of is recorded as annual event[5].
  • Namahage's location is recorded as Oga[6].
  • Namahage's subclass of is recorded as visiting god[7].
  • Namahage's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 031734599[8].
  • Namahage's Commons category is recorded as Namahage[9].
  • Namahage's Unicode character is recorded as 👹[10].
  • Namahage's armament is recorded as Deba bōchō[11].
  • Namahage's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/097kf1[12].
  • Namahage's day in year for periodic occurrence is recorded as ōmisoka[13].
  • Namahage's page banner is recorded as Namahage banner.jpg[14].
  • Namahage's time of earliest written record is recorded as +1811-02-08T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Namahage's indigenous to is recorded as Oga Peninsula[16].
  • Namahage's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties of Japan[17].
  • Namahage's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as intangible cultural heritage[18].
  • Namahage's Japanese Database of National Cultural Properties ID is recorded as 302/17[19].
  • Namahage's NicoNicoPedia ID is recorded as なまはげ[20].
  • Namahage's Pixiv Encyclopedia ID is recorded as なまはげ[21].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Namahage include 7664 Namahage[22], an asteroid[23].

Why It Matters

Namahage draws 152 Wikipedia views per month (annual_event category, ranking #40 of 238).[2] Namahage has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Namahage is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Entities named for Namahage include 7664 Namahage[22], an asteroid[23].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Japanese Database of National Cultural Properties. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [22] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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