(Kostenlos herunterladen) Folklore Yokai
University of california press 2009.
Folklore yokai. Konaki jiji this yokai disguises itself as an abandoned baby then cries until someone picks it up. 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. Yōkai range diversely from the malevolent to. Suspicious they can also be called ayakashi あやかし mononoke 物の怪 or mamono 魔物. Kosenjōbi fireballs that float over former battlefields. Asian folklore studies 57 fall 1998.
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. Yōkai and yanagita kunio viewed from the 21st century in ronald a. One such list is the three most evil yokai of japan japanese. Some of them have never appeared in english before while others will be intimately familiar to fans of japanese folklore. 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. Koromodako an octopus like yokai that lives in the waters bordering kyoto and fukui. These are the three monsters who according to legend posed the greatest threats to japan s existence.
Japanese monsters and the culture of yōkai. 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 literally demon spirit or monster are a class of supernatural creatures in japanese folklore. 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. Koropokkuru a little person from ainu folklore.
Konoha tengu a bird like tengu. The word yokai is made up of the kanji for otherwordly and weird.