Yuki Onna – The Snow Woman
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Kaii Yokai Densho Database, Kwaidan, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources The Yuki Onna is one of Japan’s most well-known and yet unknown yokai....
View ArticleYuki Jiji – The Old Man of the Snow
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Kaii Yokai Densho Database, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources In the village of Hishiyama in Nigata prefecture, there is at least one...
View Article7 Types of Yokai – Japan’s Snow Monsters
In the frozen north of the Japan, the snow piles deep and high and brings monsters. Whether riding on the avalanche, or coming in the guise of a beautiful young woman or a little lost boy, or hoping...
View ArticleTwo Tales From the Konjaku Monogatari
Translated and Adapted from Konjaku Monogatari – Tales of Times Now Past How Tosuke Ki’s Meeting with a Ghost-Woman in Mino Province Ended in His Death Tosuke Ki was traveling to his estate in Mino...
View ArticleNeko No Kai – The Cat Mystery
Translated from Edo Tokyo Kaii Hyakumonogatari March 17th: A black-spotted, two-tailed cat appeared suddenly, slinking around the Motoyoshi family farmhouse. The son of the family, Genjiro, was fond...
View ArticleJakotsu Baba – The Old Snake-Bone Woman
Translated from Konjaku Hyakki Shui, Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujara, and Japanese Wikipedia If you are wandering through the woods at night and stumble upon something that looks like a carved stone stamped...
View ArticleNeko Musume – Cat Daughter
Translated and Sourced From Ansei Zakki, Gegege no Kitaro DVD Magazine, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources Part Cat / Part Human, the Neko Musume are interesting and unique creatures in Japan’s...
View ArticleOshiroi Baba – The Face Powder Hag
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Konjyaku Hyakki Shui, and Japanese Wikipedia Weather-beaten, sake-bearing snow lady or servant to the Goddess of Cosmetics? It all depends on who...
View ArticleTsurara Onna – The Icicle Woman
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Kaii Yokai Densho Database, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources Is Japan’s Icicle Woman naughty or nice? Loving or lethal? If the stories are to...
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