diff --git a/content/articles/yokai.md b/content/articles/yokai.md index 91f663b..af81521 100644 --- a/content/articles/yokai.md +++ b/content/articles/yokai.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ draft: false This December, my girlfriend and I took a brief holiday and went to southern Germany. We wanted to visit _weihnachtsmärkte_, the famous Christmas markets, and go snow hiking. While walking some trails around [Oberreute](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberreute), more than once, we noticed two intertwined trees, already quite tall and grown up. It is a shame we did not take a picture, but it was interesting to see these two thin trunks, born one next to the other, rising in a spiral-like shape. -{{< figure src="/img/intertwined-trees-adobe.jpg" caption="I didn't take a picture, but the trees we found were twined like these ones. (Photo by Adobe Stocks)" >}} +{{< figure src="/img/intertwined-trees-adobe.jpg" caption="I didn't take a picture, but the trees we found were twined like these ones. (Photo by Adobe Stock)" >}} In the same days, we were also reading [Shigeru Mizuki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuki)'s _Yōkai Encyclopedia_, a list of common Japanese monsters and spirits. Reading about the [Yama no Kami](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yama-no-Kami), the _mountain spirits_, the book says that those twisted trees are left by them during the _Kikazoe_ (the counting of the plants), in the last days of the year. During this period, it was forbidden to take a stroll on the mountains around Iwate prefecture, otherwise one would risk being transformed into a tree.