Name: 日本民間傳說中最嗜酒的生物 (Most Alcohol-Crazy Creatures of Japanese Folklore)
Uploaded: 2025-06-08T11:53:32.000Z
Duration: 12 min 42 s

Alcohol can give you a lot of powers, like the power to socialize and to sleep on any surface.

酒精能賦予你很多能力，比如社交能力和在任何表面睡覺的能力。

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It's an important part of Japanese culture, even enjoyed by yokai, Japanese supernatural creatures.

它是日本文化的重要組成部分，甚至連日本超自然生物--"妖怪 "也喜歡吃。

I've gathered and or kidnapped 9 yokai who love sake more than a Japanese office worker pretends to in front of her boss.

我已經召集或綁架了 9 個橫行霸道的人，他們對清酒的喜愛程度超過了日本上班族在老闆面前裝出來的樣子。

I bet you've never heard of many of these creatures, including a belly dancer with a surprise beneath her kimono.

我敢打賭，你一定沒聽說過其中的許多生物，包括一位和服下藏著驚喜的肚皮舞者。

Watch this video until the end and a yokai just might come and drink with you.

把這段視頻看完，說不定會有一個妖怪來和你喝酒。

Not a nice name, but then she's not a nice yokai.

這不是個好名字，但她也不是個好橫行霸道的人。

However, knowing about her can prevent you from getting COVID.

不過，瞭解她可以防止您感染 COVID。

On winter nights in northeastern Japan, where the snow is thick and the clothes never thick enough, people have reported seeing an old lady walking outside.

在日本東北部的冬夜裡，積雪很厚，衣服也不夠厚，據說有人看到一位老太太在外面走動。

Old ladies don't do well in snow, so when she knocks on the door of a house, people tend to open it.

老太太在雪地裡行動不便，所以當她敲開一戶人家的門時，人們往往會把門打開。

It's the sweet drink that has been around since the times of ancient Japan when Pokemon roamed.

這是一種甜飲料，從寵物小精靈漫遊的古代日本時代就開始出現了。

It's sake's less intoxicating cousin, the one who drives everyone home, made from fermented rice just like sake, but has less alcohol or no alcohol at all.

它是清酒中不那麼醉人的 "表親"，也是把大家趕回家的人，和清酒一樣由大米發酵而成，但酒精含量較低或完全不含酒精。

如果你說沒有，你就沒有 amazake。

She would make you super sick and possibly die.

她會讓你病入膏肓，甚至死亡。

But if you say yes, then she would make you super sick and possibly die.

但如果你答應了，她就會讓你得超級大病，甚至可能死掉。

The best time to open your front door is never.

打開前門的最佳時機永遠都不會到來。

They say hanging a cedar branch over the door keeps her away.

他們說，在門上掛一根雪松枝就能把她趕走。

Back in the day before vaccines, people thought the amazake baba infected you with smallpox.

在還沒有疫苗的年代，人們認為阿瑪扎克巴巴會讓人感染天花。

Now smallpox used to be such a big killer, people had to make it less scary by giving it a cute name.

現在，天花曾經是一個巨大的殺手，人們不得不給它取一個可愛的名字，讓它變得不那麼可怕。

And during smallpox epidemics, wouldn't you know it, many people reported seeing a creepy old woman walking the streets at night, asking for sake or amazake, and they probably became quite distrusting.

在天花流行期間，很多人都說晚上在街上看到一個陰森恐怖的老婦人，向他們要清酒或天麻酒。

Nowadays, smallpox no longer exists outside of the bodies of a few unsuspecting disease researchers, so people now say the old lady brings the common cold, or COVID.

如今，天花已不復存在於少數不懷好意的疾病研究者的身體之外，所以人們現在說老太太帶來了普通感冒，或 COVID。

Mothers visit statues of amazake baba to offer sake and amazake to prevent their children from getting sick.

母親們會到阿瑪扎克巴巴神像前供奉清酒和阿瑪扎克，以防止孩子生病。

Another way to keep her out is to buy her some sake from Tipsy, the sponsor for this video.

另一個不讓她進來的辦法是給她買一些本視頻贊助商 Tipsy 的清酒。

There's this website called Tipsy that sends you cases of sake straight from Japan every one month, two months, or three.

有一個叫 Tipsy 的網站，每隔一個月、兩個月或三個月就會給你寄一箱直接從日本運來的清酒。

Or you can just buy a few bottles directly.

I'm not sure what kind of drink you like, but tipsysake.com has a quiz you can take to make sure they send you the perfect sake that matches your tastes.

我不知道您喜歡什麼類型的酒，但 Tipsysake.com 有一個小測驗，您可以參加，以確保他們為您發送符合您口味的完美清酒。

Well, can't be rich, you don't even have money to buy alcohol.

嗯，不可能有錢，你連買酒的錢都沒有。

I'd say this one, slightly sweet, because you like sweet sake.

我想說的是這款，略帶甜味，因為你喜歡甜清酒。

You're probably not used to seafood because you live in the mountains in the snow.

你可能不習慣吃海鮮，因為你住在雪山上。

我打賭你一定想吃一塊鮮嫩多汁的牛排。

Temperature, uh, something warm for your ice-cold heart.

溫度，嗯，給你冰冷的心一些溫暖。

You're probably a ground sleeper, so you're used to smelling that stuff.

你可能是個地睡族，所以你已經習慣了聞這種東西。

And tropical, because you can't help but dream of Okinawa when you're stuck in Hokkaido.

還有熱帶風情，因為當你被困在北海道時，你會情不自禁地夢見沖繩。

讓我們為您介紹一些隱藏的寶藏。

So when Amazake Baba comes, you take the sake bottles and hit her over the head with it.

所以，當 Amazake Baba 來的時候，你就拿起酒瓶砸她的頭。

Listen, I may or may not have been drinking while making this video, because when the sake bottles arrived, I just couldn't wait.

聽著，在製作這段視頻時，我可能喝了酒，也可能沒喝酒，因為當酒瓶送到時，我已經迫不及待了。

And then we all know where this road leads.

然後，我們都知道這條路通向哪裡。

To take the quiz and buy your own bottles of delicious sake straight from Japan, click on the link in the description below and enter my promo code LINFAMY24 to get 10% off on everything.

要參加測試並直接從日本購買一瓶屬於自己的美味清酒，請點擊下面描述中的鏈接，輸入我的促銷代碼 LINFAMY24，即可享受所有商品九折優惠。

These guys are pretty well-known, but what's that character on the sake flask they're always holding?

這些人都很有名，但他們總是拿著的酒壺上的字元是什麼？

Tanuki love to play around, misbehave, and party, so of course they love sake and are often seen waddling about all drunk and balls hanging out.

塔努基喜歡到處玩耍、調皮搗蛋和開派對，是以它們當然喜歡喝清酒，經常可以看到它們喝得醉醺醺地搖搖晃晃，睪丸掛在外面。

Bars like to have statues of these guys at the front door greeting customers.

酒吧喜歡在前門擺放這些人的雕像，迎接顧客。

It's a familiar sight in Japan to see this creature outside a bar looking like it's had a few too many glasses.

在日本，人們經常會在酒吧門口看到這種生物，它看起來像是喝多了酒。

It's called a Japanese man, but you also see tanuki too.

它被稱作日本人，但你也能看到狸貓。

The tanuki is often shown holding a sake flask with the character hachi on it, meaning eight.

狸貓通常手持酒壺，酒壺上有一個 "八 "字，意為 "八"。

這與他們血液中的酒精含量無關。

It represents the eight traits of a tanuki that bring good fortune.

它代表了能帶來好運的 "八大特徵"。

They are the hat to protect against trouble and to look dashing while facing it, big eyes to see the things around it and help it make wise decisions, a sake bottle that represents virtue for some reason, a big tail for the steadiness needed to reach success, a sack of IOUs for trust, nothing says trust like unpaid debts, a friendly smile for kindness, a massive belly for bold and calm decisiveness, and large balls for wealth and prosperity.

它們是：帽子，用來抵禦麻煩，在面對麻煩時顯得瀟灑；大眼睛，用來觀察周圍的事物，幫助它做出明智的決定；酒瓶，因為某種原因代表美德；大尾巴，代表成功所需的穩健；一袋欠條，代表信任，沒有什麼比欠債還錢更能體現信任了；友好的微笑，代表善良；大肚子，代表大膽而冷靜的果斷；大球，代表財富和繁榮。

You might be asking, what's the connection between balls and money?

你可能會問，球和錢之間有什麼聯繫？

Okay also, a common Japanese word for scrotum is kintama, or golden balls.

另外，日語中陰囊的一個常用詞是 "Kintama"，即 "金球"。

Also also, historically, they used to make some wallets out of tanuki skin.

另外，在歷史上，他們曾用塔努其皮製作過一些錢包。

It was supposed to make your money last longer.

That's because blacksmiths would wrap gold in tanuki love pouches, then hammer it, stretching the gold into thin gold leaves.

這是因為鐵匠會把黃金包在簞笥中，然後用錘子敲打，把黃金拉伸成薄薄的金葉子。

So tanuki wallets were supposed to stretch your money too.

所以，Tanuki 錢包也應該能讓你的錢變得更有彈性。

The joke was that tanuki skin was so tough, a blacksmith could use it to stretch gold to the size of 8 tatami mats.

人們開玩笑說，塔努奇的皮非常堅硬，鐵匠可以用它把黃金拉伸到 8 張榻榻米那麼大。

People who hoard kitchen items are terrified of this yokai.

囤積廚房用品的人都很害怕這種妖怪。

This tiny general has a sake bottle for a head, and a body made of broken dishes and other porcelain things.

這個小將軍的頭是一個酒瓶，身體是用碎碗碟和其他瓷器做成的。

He chases people around the kitchen, armed with fearsome weapons like chopsticks and knives.

他拿著筷子和刀子等可怕的武器，在廚房裡追著人跑。

His attack strategy involves a lot of running into walls and causing a mess.

他的攻擊策略包括大量撞牆和製造混亂。

Sometimes he'll smash into something and break into a thousand shards, but the pieces would just gather back together.

有時他會撞到什麼東西，碎成無數碎片，但碎片又會重新聚集在一起。