#Yamakage

[epoyeka]

no he hecho nada

[falldaffodil]

Sometime during their second year, Kageyama starts blushing around Yamaguchi. Tsukishima finds it hilarious until Yamaguchi begins blushing right back.

[a-gay-mess-tbh]

Everyone loves Yamaguchi

A redraw of an old comic from 4 years ago

[skysmadness]

my captain and vice captain <3

[shoujoify]

writing a yamakage college au … if anyone cares ………

[mzhari4]

From an interview with the voice actors

[kawaii-night666]

YamaKage

[freezethebeez]

lazy fic update post as a stand-in for now. will post something more elaborate in the morning when i'm not falling asleep as i type.

yamakage courting fic for haikyuu royalty week day 5 here :]

[hqrarepairs-ao3feed]

by Average_Fangirl330

Four times Tsukishima felt jealous about Yamaguchi talking about and to other people. One time Yamaguchi got jealous when Tsukishima was talking to someone. They’re not dating, but they might as well be.

Words: 5693, Chapters: 1/2, Language: English

Fandoms: Haikyuu!!

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Tsukishima Kei, Yamaguchi Tadashi, Kageyama Tobio, Hinata Shouyou, Yachi Hitoka, Terushima Yuuji, Kuroo Tetsurou, Kozume Kenma, Original Characters

Relationships: Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Yamaguchi Tadashi/Original Male Character(s), Kageyama Tobio/Yamaguchi Tadashi, Yachi Hitoka/Yamaguchi Tadashi, Terushima Yuuji/Yamaguchi Tadashi, Kuroo Tetsurou/Tsukishima Kei, Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou

Additional Tags: Jealousy, Friends to Lovers, Slow Build, Possessive Behavior, First Kiss, Tsukishima Kei is Bad at Feelings, Yamaguchi Tadashi's Freckles, Assumptions, Teasing, Endgame Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi

[smolkyun]

despues de volver a ver Haikyuu, Kageyama se convirtio en uno de mis personajes fav (Yamaguchi ya lo era)

i really liked this panel for reasons so i colored it

[gochujangst]

Completed my Magical girls!

[amemiru]

yama+tsuki→kage

[thawthebeez]

i love reading haikyuu tiktok shipping discourse comment sections. it's so entertaining seeing so many people with such bad taste.

[kdotan]

Fun Fancure Fact:

Mika actually loves animals. She has two parakeets named Red Bean and Taro, and a black cat named Udon. She also wants to get either a tarantula or a ferret when she’s older.

[mzhari4]

🍋🍓🫐

[shintoinenglish]

Review: The Essence of Shinto

I have written before of Yamakage's authorship of multiple antisemitic conspiracy theory books. That said, given that there are not a lot of English language books about Shintō, I find this book is often recommended. It should not be recommended to anyone, not just because of the authorship, but for its misinformation. There is very little actual information that can be salvaged from this trainwreck of a book.

Koshintō is not an ancient practice - it's a new religious movement; an attempt to imagine an ancient Shintō, which is, in my opinion, inherently paradoxical, as the concept of Shintō as the name of a religion (and indeed the concept of a religion itself) were consciously constructed as recently as the Meiji Era, which is the 19th century. The archaeological and historical truth is that we do not know what Yayoi or Jomon period peoples believed, and Shintō is likely very distinct from that, and that is okay. While I understand the impulse to try to reconstruct Yayoi or Jomon era religions, I find the impulse to remove foreign elements like Buddhism to contain elements of xenophobia, and have found the idea of Shintō as truly ancient to be misleading at best. We do not actually have an ancient practice handed down to us. Japanese religious practice, first, is diverse -- regions do things differently. Kyushu area graves, for example, bear continental Chinese influence and have 土神 enshrined at their sides. Secondly, while I do think there is a necessity to undo the damage that State Shintō has done, it is not helpful to do so in a way that, at best, ignores and at worst, contradicts history.

Secondly, Yamakage Shintō is barely attested outside of Motohisa's writings. Many of the practices allegedly specific to Yamakage Shintō are common Japanese New Age theories, along with some condescension of traditional practices. One way to recognize this is his repeated use of the word "spiritual" (which presumably was either written スピリチュアル in the original text). It's ironic, then, that he puts down "bizarre cults and sects" (p.13). The aforementioned paragraph should explain why I am so skeptical of the Yamakage school when there is no such thing as ancient Shintō by definition.

Crucially, there is some dangerous and typical New Age medical misinformation here. He claims that certain chants or practices can heal different physical and mental health symptoms, which is not something anyone should say, much less someone who claims to be a religious teacher. This is a sidenote, but I am hoping that Paul de Leeuw did not absorb any of this, but am concerned as he trained under Yamakage.

Yamakage states "...Shinto leaders have been at the forefront of campaigns to restore the forests..." As much as Westerners want Shintō to be the Green Religion that saves the world, I've had very little luck actually encountering any shrine websites or articles that back this up, outside of the traditional practices of keeping very small sacred forests known as chinju no mori. If anything, the opposite has been documented. See Sacred Forests, Sacred Nation for more on this subject. I would be open to correction on this, but Yamakage provides no sources whatsoever; in fact, he provides no sources throughout his book for any of his factual or historical claims. Presenting the Showa Emperor as a source does nothing but reinforce fascist rhetoric about the emperor being the religious head, as he was at the time of State Shinto, and likely says more about his personal convictions than his religious ones. There is something eerily dystopian and fascistic in Yamakage's description of the people cheerily following the Showa Emperor's example.

I have noticed a tendency in some Japanese people to do what I think of as self-orientalism; an exoticization of your own body and culture to appeal to whites. It seems to me that Yamakage is doing such a thing, while simultaneously appealing to Japanese nationalistic sympathies, by saying it is an ancient, mysterious religion untainted by materialism. Demonizing materialism, in fact, goes against the actual practice of most Japanese -- many, many businesses regularly pray for prosperity and dedicate lamps to shrines, or will get ritual decorations for prosperity known as kumade during the November Tori-no-Ichi festival.

"Ajimarikan" is a chant that is, at best, shoddily derived from Buddhism, as is his use of mudra hand gestures. At worst, he completely fabricated this chant and doesn't even attempt to provide a meaning for this phrase. The Five Great Vowels Chant and the Heavenly Counting Chant are both chants that do not exist outside of this book.

Yamakage Motohisa also repeatedly uses Okinawan/Ryūkyūan religion as examples as if it is a part of Shintō, which it most decidedly is not. There was forced assimilation because of colonization, to my understanding, but the practice is entirely different from Shintō.

This is kind of a briefer overview than I originally intended, but I hope this provides some information on why I dislike Yamakage and this book so much. My hope is that he stops being recommended as any sort of resource and a better one is translated soon.