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Baku (獏 or 貘) are Japanese supernatural beings that are said to devour nightmares. They originate from the Chinese Mo . According to legend, they were created by the spare pieces that were left over when the gods finished creating all other animals.
Baku, or dream-eater, is a benevolent yōkai with the power to eat nightmares. [4] As a remedy for nightmares, baku can be seen as the antithesis of yume no seirei.
Baku A supernatural beast that resembles a tapir and devours dreams and nightmares. Basan A large chicken monster from Iyo Province that breathes cold fire that does not burn, named for the eerie rustling sound its wings make when it flaps them. Bashō no sei The spirit of a banana tree that takes human form. Benzaiten
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 ...
Baku (バク): A Yokai created from a Sealing Shuriken and a bag who can devour victims' dreams and ambitions. After being defeated by Aka Ninger Chozetsu and Star Ninger, Baku is enlarged before he is killed by Lion HaOh. [69] Baku is voiced by Shinya Fukumatsu (ふくまつ 進紗, Fukumatsu Shin'ya).
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.
The Bake-kujira (Japanese: 化鯨, ghost whale) [a] is a mythical Japanese yōkai (ghost, phantom, or strange apparition) from western Japan.It is described as being a skeleton whale that is accompanied by unknown fish and weird birds.
The Biwa-bokuboku was modeled after the biwa (琵琶), a short-necked, wooden lute. Toriyama Sekien reports in his work Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro (百器徒然袋) that the biwa was designed after Chinese instruments such as the bokuma and the genjō.