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Yūrei-zu (幽霊図) are a genre of Japanese art consisting of painted or woodblock print images of ghosts, demons and other supernatural beings. They are considered to be a subgenre of fūzokuga, "pictures of manners and customs." [1] These types of art works reached the peak of their popularity in Japan in the mid- to late 19th century. [2]
However, a given ghost may be described by more than one of the following terms, as the following terms are used differently depending on which elements of a ghost's characteristics are focused on: Onryō : The term onryō refers to the spirit of a person who died with a grudge or hatred and was feared by people as bringing disaster through ...
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
Reportedly haunted locations in Japan (4 P) Pages in category "Japanese ghosts" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
In 1982, a fire in the building killed 33 people, making people believe it to be haunted. [7] [8] Akasaka Mansion hotel A woman claimed she was dragged across her room by an unseen force. [9] Doryodo Ruins Two bodies were allegedly found on the site, a body of an elderly woman in 1963 and a young college student in 1973.
“I love downtown Recife,” narrates Kleber Mendonça Filho over self-shot footage of his hometown’s dilapidated center, its once-promising clusters of midcentury high-rises now graying and ...
Ikiryō (生霊) from the 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama. Ikiryō (生霊, lit. "living ghost"), also known as shōryō (しょうりょう), seirei (せいれい), or ikisudama (いきすだま), [1] is a disembodied spirit or ghost in Japanese popular belief and fiction that leaves the body of a living person and subsequently haunts other people or places, sometimes across ...
Dozens of dead bodies have mysteriously washed up on Japan's shores over the past few weeks — and all the evidence points to North Korea. At least 40 corpses from around 15 boats have washed up ...