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After the kuniumi, where Izanagi and Izanami created the land of Japan, they created many of (but not all) the myriad kami who inhabit the land, finally culminating in the birth of Kagu-tsuchi and the death of Izanami, which resulted in the creation of even more kami as Izanagi went to Yomi to retrieve her but ended up fleeing.
The Hyakki Yagyō has appeared in several tales collected by Japanese folklorists. [5]Uji Shūi Monogatari (宇治拾遺物語), in which a monk encounters a group of a hundred yōkai which pass by the Ryūsenji temple.
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 ...
The death was a mystery until a couple from a different village visited the tree for its flower, although only the woman came back screaming and yelling at the villagers that her lover was taken by a ghost.
There were tales where men stocking ox with fish for delivery encountered yamauba at capes and got chased by them, such as the Ushikata Yamauba and the Kuwazu Jobo, as well as a tale where someone who was chased by the yamauba would climb a chain appearing from the skies in order to flee, and when the yamauba tried to make chase by climbing the ...
Matsuda theorizes that Near wrote in the Death Note to manipulate Mikami's actions in order to lead Light to his defeat. [6] In the second Death Note Rewrite special, Mikami is the one to kill the majority of SPK, Near's team of investigators, differing from the manga, in which Mello and the mafia are responsible for the SPK's deaths.
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The Jubokko (Japanese: 樹木子, "tree child" [1]) is a yōkai tree in Japanese folklore that appears in many books related to Japanese yōkai, including Shigeru Mizuki's works.