28+ Folklore Yokai

Yōkai and yanagita kunio viewed from the 21st century in ronald a.

Folklore yokai. Many different english words have been used as translations. Japanese monsters and the culture of yōkai. But did you know that there are official top three lists for folklore. Of all the yokai in japanese folklore the tengu are for sure my personal favourites. These are the three monsters who according to legend posed the greatest threats to japan s existence. Morse ed yanagita kunio and japanese folklore studies in the 21st century 20 35. Konaki jiji this yokai disguises itself as an abandoned baby then cries until someone picks it up.

Yōkai literally demon spirit or monster are a class of supernatural creatures in japanese folklore. Yōkai range diversely from the malevolent to. Asian folklore studies 57 fall 1998. They are shuten dōji tamamo no mae and sutoku tennō. Kosenjōbi fireballs that float over former battlefields. Suspicious they can also be called ayakashi あやかし mononoke 物の怪 or mamono 魔物.

One such list is the three most evil yokai of japan japanese. Konoha tengu a bird like tengu. Yōkai 妖怪 ghost phantom strange apparition are a class of supernatural monsters spirits and demons in japanese folklore the word yōkai is made up of the kanji for bewitching. If you spend any time at all in japan you ll almost certainly see them as masks on restaurant walls or statues at temples and even train stations. Within these pages you ll find an ever growing collection of yokai and legends from all parts of japan and all periods of japanese history. The word yokai is made up of the kanji for otherwordly and weird. Koromodako an octopus like yokai that lives in the waters bordering kyoto and fukui.

Some of them have never appeared in english before while others will be intimately familiar to fans of japanese folklore. The word is a combination of the characters 妖 yō attractive bewitching calamity and 怪 kai mystery wonder.