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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".
Ikiryō (生霊) from the 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama. Ikiryō (生霊, lit. "living ghost"), also known as shōryō (しょうりょう), seirei (せいれい), or ikisudama (いきすだま), [1] is a disembodied spirit or ghost in Japanese popular belief and fiction that leaves the body of a living person and subsequently haunts other people or places, sometimes across ...
Due to the influence of a large number of Hawaiians with Japanese ancestry, on the islands of Hawaii the term obake has found its way into the dialect of the local people. . Some Japanese stories concerning these creatures have found their way into local culture in Hawaii: numerous sightings of kappa have been reported on the islands, and the Japanese faceless ghosts called noppera-bō have ...
An infant ghost that licks the oil out of andon lamps. Abura-sumashi A large-headed spirit that lives in the mountain passes of Kumamoto Prefecture, thought to be the reincarnation of a person who stole oil and then fled into the woods. Agubanba (あぐばんば, lit. ' ash crone ') A blind, cannibalistic female yōkai who hails from Akita ...
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.
Some believe that the Japanese ghost character "岾" is a Kokuji (a uniquely Japanese kanji) meaning bald mountains, and was originally a misspelling of "岵". In Korea, however, this character was created as a Chinese character meaning mountain pass. [47] This was also unified in Unicode. [43]
Japanese urban legends, enduring modern Japanese folktales; La Llorona, the ghost of a woman in Latin American folklore; Madam Koi Koi, an African urban legend about the ghost of a dead teacher; Ouni, a Japanese yōkai with a face like that of a demon woman (kijo) torn from mouth to ear
In a broad sense, Goryō (御霊, Japanese:) is an honorific for a spirit, especially one that causes hauntings, and the term is used as a synonym for onryō (怨霊, vengeful Japanese ghosts).