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Yūrei from the Hyakkai Zukan, c. 1737. Yūrei are figures in Japanese folklore analogous to the Western concept of ghosts.The name consists of two kanji, 幽 (yū), meaning "faint" or "dim" and 霊 (rei), meaning "soul" or "spirit".
The plate-counting ghost of a servant girl who met a tragic end. One of the three most famous onryō. Ōkubi The huge face of a woman which appears in the sky, either portending disaster or causing it. Ōkuninushi A kami of nation-building, agriculture, medicine, and protective magic.
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100 Japanese Girl Names. With so many wonderful Japanese girl names to choose from, how will you decide? Hopefully, this list of 100 names will help you narrow it down. Aoi. Himari. Emi. Noemi ...
The name also appeared in the "Shinotogibōko", a collection of ghost stories from the Edo period. [12] Hidama (火魂, "fire spirit") An onibi from the Okinawa Prefecture. It ordinarily lives in the kitchen behind the charcoal extinguisher, but it is said to become a bird-like shape and fly around, and make things catch on fire. [13]
It is said that the vendor became an atmospheric ghost fire, floating on rainy nights. [15] Sōrikanko Told in legends of Shioire, Oodachi, Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, its name means "the Kanko of Shioiri village". [16] A beautiful girl named Kanko received many marriage proposals, but refused them all since she loved someone else.
Yuki-onna illustration from Sogi Shokoku Monogatari. Yuki-onna originates from folklores of olden times; in the Muromachi period Sōgi Shokoku Monogatari by the renga poet Sōgi, there is a statement on how he saw a yuki-onna when he was staying in Echigo Province (now Niigata Prefecture), indicating that the legends already existed in the Muromachi period.
They often appear in Japanese legends, folktales, fairy tales, and performing arts, and famous among them are Momiji (from The Legend of Momiji and Momijigari) from Togakushi, Shinano Province (now the town of Kinasa, Nagano, Nagano Prefecture) and Suzuka Gozen from the Suzuka Mountains.