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Mythology. They are normally considered to be women who have turned into oni as a result of karma and resentment, with the younger ones being called "kijo" while the ones that look like old ladies are called onibaba (鬼婆, "demon hag"). [1] They often appear in Japanese legends, folktales, fairy tales, and performing arts, and famous among ...
The name of a kitsune who is famous for pretending to be a Buddhist priest. Hanako-san The spirit of a young World War II-era girl who inhabits and haunts elementary school restrooms. Hannya A Noh mask representing a jealous female demon. Haradashi A humanoid creature with a giant face on its stomach, that enjoys making people laugh with zany ...
Futakuchi-onna (ふたくちおんな - 二口女, "two-mouthed woman") is a type of yōkai or Japanese monster. She is characterized by her two mouths – a normal one located on her face and a second one on the back of the head beneath the hair. There, the woman's skull splits apart, forming lips, teeth and a tongue, creating an entirely ...
Momiji (oni) Taira no Koremochi falls asleep by the side of Momiji. ("The Demon of Mount Togakushi", 1890. From the "Thirty-six Ghosts" series by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka) Momiji (Japanese 紅葉) [ a] is a female oni ( kijo) in Japanese folklore, whose story is known as The Legend of Momiji (紅葉伝説). The legend has been handed down in Kinasa ...
Yūrei ( 幽霊) 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". Alternative names include Bōrei (亡霊), meaning ruined or departed spirit, Shiryō (死霊), meaning dead spirit, or the more ...
Nezuko Kamado (Japanese: 竈門 禰豆子, Hepburn: Kamado Nezuko) is a fictional character in Koyoharu Gotouge's manga series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.Nezuko and her older brother Tanjiro Kamado are the sole survivors of an incident through which they lost their entire family due to the Demon King, Muzan Kibutsuji, with Nezuko being transformed into a demon, but unexpectedly still ...
A later version of the Kujiki, an ancient Japanese historical text, writes the name of Amanozako, a monstrous female deity born from the god Susanoo's spat-out ferocity, with characters meaning tengu deity (天狗神). The book describes Amanozako as a raging creature capable of flight, with the body of a human, the head of a beast, a long nose ...
Jorōgumo ( Japanese: 絡新婦 ( kanji), じょろうぐも ( hiragana)) is a type of yōkai, a creature of Japanese folklore. It can shapeshift into a beautiful woman, so the kanji that represent its actual meaning are 女郎蜘蛛 ( lit. 'woman-spider' ); the kanji which are used to write it instead, 絡新婦 ( lit. 'entangling newlywed ...