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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 ...
"Ayakashi" from the Konjaku Hyakki Shūi by Sekien Toriyama. Ayakashi (アヤカシ) is the collective name for yōkai that appear above the surface of a body of water. [1]In Nagasaki Prefecture, the atmospheric ghost lights that appear above water are called ayakashi, and so are the funayūrei in Yamaguchi Prefecture and Saga Prefecture. [1]
A general term for yōkai that appear on or above the surface of a body of water. Azukiarai/Azukitogi A spirit that washes azuki beans on the shoreline of a river or other body of water. Azukibabaa An old woman yōkai who grinds azuki beans but would much rather devour a person. Azukihakari A yōkai that is only sound, like a poltergeist. It ...
Oni, written in kanji as 鬼, is read in China as guǐ , meaning something invisible, formless, or unworldly, in other words, a 'ghost' or the 'soul of the dead'. On the other hand, the Japanese dictionary Wamyō Ruijushō ( 和名類聚抄 ) written in Japan in the 10th century explained the origin of the word oni as a corruption of on/onu ...
Books on yōkai since the Heisei era and beyond often consider it to be a tsukumogami (a yōkai transformed from a vessel) of a mirror that has become over a hundred years old, which offer varying interpretations on what it does, ranging from it reflecting one's own face in the mirror but transforming into a yōkai [6] or a vessel that the ...
Yamabiko (山彦, also yamahiko) is a mountain god, spirit, and yōkai in Japanese folklore; the term "yamabiko" also refers to the echo that occurs in mountains, after which the yōkai is named. Literally translated, the term means "mountain boy". [1] It is the yōkai responsible for the natural phenomenon in mountains or canyons. [2]
"Mononoke Kikyo no Koto" (物怪帰去の事) from the "Totei Bukkairoku" (稲亭物怪録) The first appearance of the term in Japanese literature is seen to be in the Nihon Kōki, and according to a quotation of this book from the Nihon Kiryaku of the same time period, in the article of Uruu 12th month of the year Tenchō 7 (830), there is the statement: "Five monks were invited to recite ...
In the Hyakki Yagyo Emaki from the Muromachi period, yōkai that appeared as umbrellas could be seen, but in this emaki, it was a humanoid yōkai that merely had an umbrella on its head and thus had a different appearance than that resembling a kasa-obake. [7]