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Yōkai (妖怪, "strange apparition") are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore.The kanji representation of the word yōkai comprises two characters that both mean "suspicious, doubtful", [1] and while the Japanese name is simply the Japanese transliteration or pronunciation of the Chinese term yaoguai (which designates similarly strange creatures), some Japanese ...
Taxidermy of a Japanese raccoon dog, wearing waraji on its feet: This tanuki is displayed in a Buddhist temple in Japan, in the area of the folktale "Bunbuku Chagama".. The earliest appearance of the bake-danuki in literature, in the chapter about Empress Suiko in the Nihon Shoki, written during the Nara period, is the passages "in two months of spring, there are tanuki in the country of Mutsu ...
In the manga and its later anime adaptation Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs, the housekeeper of the inn the protagonist stays in, Ms. Nakai, is a Zashiki-warashi. In the video game and anime series Yo-Kai Watch, the zashiki-warashi is a common yokai of the Heartful tribe who specializes in healing abilities. It has an evolution named Zashiki ...
A beast youkai who assists Jiro in his spiritual duties. Gorozaemon Sanmoto (山本五郎左衛門, Sanmoto Gorōzaemon) Voiced by: Satoshi Mikami [3] A demon king who serves as a representative and leader for the youkai of Japan. Though he takes the form of a human man, his true form is a large, hairy beast the size of one and a half Tokyo Domes.
A figure of a kasa-obake from the 1968 film Yokai Monsters: One Hundred Monsters A two-legged kasa-obake from the "Hyakki Yagyo Zumaki" by Enshin Kanō. [1] Kasa-obake (Japanese: 傘おばけ) [2] [3] are a mythical ghost or yōkai in Japanese folklore. They are sometimes, but not always, considered a tsukumogami that old umbrellas turn into.
This is a list of anime and/or manga series based on ghosts, ... demons, gods, mystical forces, or psychic abilities. Subcategories ... Elegant Yokai Apartment Life;
Yōkai Giga (妖怪ギガ) [a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Satsuki Satō. It was serialized in Shogakukan 's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from April 2017 to November 2021, with its chapters collected in eleven tankōbon volumes.