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A Japanese chimera with the features of the beasts from the Chinese Zodiac: a rat's head, rabbit ears, ox horns, a horse's mane, a rooster's comb, a sheep's beard, a dragon's neck, a back like that of a boar, a tiger's shoulders and belly, monkey arms, a dog's hindquarters, and a snake's tail. Koto-furunushi
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.
Kappa, and creatures based on them, are recurring characters in Japanese tokusatsu films and television shows. Examples include the kappas in the Daiei/Kadokawa series Yokai Monsters, the 2010 kaiju film Death Kappa, [39] [40] and "King Kappa", a kaiju from the 1972 Tsuburaya Productions series Ultraman Ace. [41]
[2] He is considered one of the Great Three Evil Yokai of Japan alongside Shuten-dōji and Tamamo-no-Mae, [3] though some version of the list replace Ootakemaru with Sutoku-tenno. Ootakemaru was said to be able to manipulate the weather such as storms and thunder, capable of creating dark clouds to cover Suzuka Mountain that rained fire. [4]
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 ...
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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.
Yoshino is a Japanese restaurant in New York City serving omakase [2] [3] by head chef Tadashi Yoshida. The restaurant connected to The Bowery Hotel earned a Michelin star back in 2022. They also received 4 stars by The New York Times and was rated 9th on their top 100 list in 2024. [citation needed]