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In the Hyakki Yagyo Emaki from the Muromachi period, yōkai that appeared as umbrellas could be seen, but in this emaki, it was a humanoid yōkai that merely had an umbrella on its head and thus had a different appearance than that resembling a kasa-obake. [7] The kasa-obake that took on an appearance with one eye and one foot was seen from the ...
Kasa-obake, a spirit or monster in Japanese folklore Kibera Aeronautics and Space Academy, a project of the Tunapanda Institute , Nairobi, Kenya Korea AeroSpace Administration , space agency of South Korea
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 ...
Tōfu-kozō from the Kyōka Hyaku Monogatari by Masasumi Ryuukansaijin. Tōfu-kozō (Japanese: 豆腐小僧, literally "tofu boy") is a yōkai of Japan that takes on the appearance of a child possessing a tray with tōfu on it.
An aobōzu depicted in a deck of obake karuta cards. [1] Aobōzu (青 (あお) 坊 (ぼ) 主 (うず), "Blue priest") is a Japanese yōkai (spirit) found in a number of Japanese legends. Stories about aobōzu, in particular the exact details of the spirit, vary widely.
In the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki it wears a Japanese umbrella with its central pole missing, and it is depicted possessing a paper lantern. In the explanatory text, it says, "speaking of the rain god Ushi, there is the amefurikozō, who works as its jidō (雨のかみを雨師（ushi）といふ 雨ふり小僧といへるものは めしつかはるる侍童（jidō）にや)", stating that ...
Design model of the Bakezōri may have been Zōri, traditional sandals made of braided rice straw. [1] [2]The being Bakezōri belongs to a special group of Yōkai, called Tsukumogami (付喪神; "artifact-demons"): According to Japanese folklore, households are like repair tools, kitchen appliances and even clothes of any kind which eventually come to life and receive their own consciousness ...
The most popular legend of the Sazae-oni is that of a group of pirates who rescued a drowning woman from the sea and took her back to the ship. They vied for her attention, but soon found that she was willing to have sex with all of them, then cut their testicles off afterwards.