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The museum, directed by Yagyu Chuebi, contains approximately nine hundred examples of Yokai. [2] [3] The museum is located on Shodoshima island, in the area known as the "maze district", in four wooden structures from the Meiji Era. [2]
Kitsune (fox) (17 P) O. Oni (1 C, 29 P) S. Shinigami (1 C, 2 P) T. Tengu (1 C, 7 P) Tsukumogami (11 P) Pages in category "Yōkai" ... Shodoshima Yokai Art Museum ...
A nine-tailed fox spirit (kyūbi no kitsune) scaring Prince Hanzoku; print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Edo period, 19th century. In Japanese folklore, kitsune (狐, きつね, IPA: [kʲi̥t͡sɨne̞] ⓘ) are foxes that possess paranormal abilities that increase as they get older and wiser.
The Miyoshi Mononoke Museum, also known as the Yumoto Koichi Memorial Japan Yōkai Museum, or shortened to the Yōkai Museum, is located in Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. [1] The museum collection holds over 5,000 artworks and objects that represent yōkai , supernatural beings in Japanese folklore.
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 ...
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 ...
"Mononoke Kikyo no Koto" (物怪帰去の事) from the "Totei Bukkairoku" (稲亭物怪録) The first appearance of the term in Japanese literature is seen to be in the Nihon Kōki, and according to a quotation of this book from the Nihon Kiryaku of the same time period, in the article of Uruu 12th month of the year Tenchō 7 (830), there is the statement: "Five monks were invited to recite ...
Legend in Japanese art: a description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folk-lore, myths, religious symbolism, illustrated in the arts of old Japan. New York: J. Lane. (1908) New York: J. Lane. (1908)