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Kaidan Restaurant (怪談レストラン, Kaidan Resutoran) is a Japanese children's storybook series. The books take the form of horror anthologies, edited by Miyoko Matsutani and illustrated by Yoshikazu Takai and Kumiko Katō. As of 2007, there were 50 volumes published by Doshinsha. [1]
The classic Japanese demon. It is an ogre-like creature which often has horns. Onibaba The demonic hag of Adachigahara. Onibi A demonic flame which sucks out the life of those who come too close to it. Onihitokuchi A species of one-eyed oni that kill and eat humans, large enough to devour a man in one bite. Onikuma
One night, a demon entered their house, killing all five of Genya's younger siblings before it was fought off by Sanemi. He later found him standing in front of their mother's body, who was the demon, and branded him a murderer in his grief. Genya laments dying without apologizing to Sanemi when Tanjiro saves him from Sekido.
Wanyūdō (Japanese: 輪入道, literally "wheel (輪) monk (入道)"), also known as "Firewheel" or "Soultaker", [1] is a yōkai depicted in Toriyama Sekien's collection of yōkai illustrations, Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki. He is a relatively well-known yōkai; the earliest reports of him date back to the Heian period. [citation needed]
Eating while walking may imply that you think you are too busy or important to sit down and eat, and it can cause a mess if any food is dropped. Drink vending machines in Japan generally have a recycling bin for used bottles and cans, so one can consume the drink there; and in summer months one may see groups drinking near a vending machine. [13]
The explanation is that in Japanese, まめ, マメ (mame) can also be written as 魔目 (mame), meaning the devil's eye, or 魔滅 (mametsu), meaning to destroy the devil. During the Edo period (1603–1867), the custom spread to Shinto shrines , Buddhist temples and the general public.
Yume no seirei ゆめのせいれい from Bakemono no e (化物之繪, c. 1700), Harry F. Bruning Collection of Japanese Books and Manuscripts, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. Yume no seirei (夢の精霊, “dream spirit”), is a mysterious yōkai in Japanese mythology believed to cause ...
In The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World one of the ayakashi that Seika Lamprogue summons to uncover information from a demon spy is a satori depicting it as a large ape like creature. In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and its sequel, a creature called a satori is known as The Lord of the Mountain. It is depicted ...