49 Folklore Yokai

Asian folklore studies 57 fall 1998.

Folklore yokai. 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. Morse ed yanagita kunio and japanese folklore studies in the 21st century 20 35. University of california press 2009. Yokai 妖怪 are strange and supernatural creatures from japanese folklore. Of all the yokai in japanese folklore the tengu are for sure my personal favourites. Yōkai range diversely from the malevolent to.

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. Kosenjōbi fireballs that float over former battlefields. Koropokkuru a little person from ainu folklore. One such list is the three most evil yokai of japan japanese. Koromodako an octopus like yokai that lives in the waters bordering kyoto and fukui. Japanese monsters and the culture of yōkai.

Yōkai and yanagita kunio viewed from the 21st century in ronald a. 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. 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. Some of them have never appeared in english before while others will be intimately familiar to fans of japanese folklore. The word yokai is made up of the kanji for otherwordly and weird. But did you know that there are official top three lists for folklore.

The word is a combination of the characters 妖 yō attractive bewitching calamity and 怪 kai mystery wonder. Many different english words have been used as translations.