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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. They are also called " karakasa-obake " ( から傘おばけ ) , [ 2 ] [ 4 ] " kasa-bake " ( 傘化け ) , [ 5 ] and " karakasa kozō " ( 唐傘小僧 ) .
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories also known in Japan as Yami Shibai (闇芝居, Yami Shibai, lit.Dark Play) and Theater of Darkness is a Japanese anime television series. The first season was directed by Tomoya Takashima, with scripts written by Hiromu Kumamoto and produced by ILCA.
One night in the allegedly haunted store, he accidentally releases the ghost of Siu Fu-yung from an old oil-paper umbrella. She mistakes Dai-kwong for her lover since he looks exactly the same as her husband Wan-kwong who died 20 years ago.
A type of ghost that is bound to a specific place or situation. Jigoku The Japanese Buddhist version of Hell, where the freshly dead go after receiving judgment from Datsue-ba and Keneō. They pay for their sins there, then await reincarnation. Jikininki Ghosts of evil people, that have been condemned to eat human corpses. Jinmenju
Yūrei often fall under the general umbrella term of obake, derived from the verb bakeru, meaning "to change"; thus obake are preternatural beings who have undergone some sort of change, from the natural realm to the supernatural.
Hometown Rebuilding: Folktales from Japan (ふるさと 再生 （ さいせい ） 日本 （ にっぽん ） の 昔 （ むかし ） ばなし, Furusato Saisei: Nippon no Mukashi Banashi) is a 258-episode long Japanese anime television series that adapts various traditional stories from Japan. Each episode of this anime comprises three ...
A mischievous Yo-kai that affects electrical energy, causing blackouts and batteries to die. He appears in Nate's house the night he has Eddie and Bear over for a sleepover, preventing them from watching a nighttime TV show. Denjin (でんじん, from den (電, "electric") and jin (人, "person") or jin (神, "deity")) / Signiton
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 ...