Japanese Mythology
Bakeneko
A bakeneko (Japanese: 化け猫, "shape-shifting cat") is a cat that has become a yōkai, or supernatural creature in Japanese folklore. It is often confused with nekomata, another cat-like yokai, as...
Bakeneko
A bakeneko (Japanese: 化け猫, "shape-shifting cat") is a cat that has become a yōkai, or supernatural creature in Japanese folklore. It is often confused with nekomata, another cat-like yokai, as...
Gashadokuro
Gashadokuro (がしゃどくろ), literally "hungry skeleton," also known as Odokuro, are mythical creatures of Japanese folklore Gashadokuro's Mythology Gashadokuro are spirits taking the form of giant skeletons and being fifteen times...
Gashadokuro
Gashadokuro (がしゃどくろ), literally "hungry skeleton," also known as Odokuro, are mythical creatures of Japanese folklore Gashadokuro's Mythology Gashadokuro are spirits taking the form of giant skeletons and being fifteen times...
Kuraokami
Kuraokami (jap. クラオカミ; Kojiki: 闇淤加美〔神〕, Nihonshoki: 闇龗〔神〕, also: Kura-okami-no-kami; Karl Florenz suggests as an apt translation "dark great god" or "great god of the valley gorges") is, in Shintō mythology,...
Kuraokami
Kuraokami (jap. クラオカミ; Kojiki: 闇淤加美〔神〕, Nihonshoki: 闇龗〔神〕, also: Kura-okami-no-kami; Karl Florenz suggests as an apt translation "dark great god" or "great god of the valley gorges") is, in Shintō mythology,...
Takeminakata
Takeminakata-no-Kami (建御名方神) or Takeminakata-no-Mikoto (建御名方命) is a Shinto deity, but is also known as Minakatatomi-no-Kami (南方刀美神 ), or Takeminakatatomi-no-Mikoto (建御名方富命), whose name appears in the Kojiki and derived sources. These...
Takeminakata
Takeminakata-no-Kami (建御名方神) or Takeminakata-no-Mikoto (建御名方命) is a Shinto deity, but is also known as Minakatatomi-no-Kami (南方刀美神 ), or Takeminakatatomi-no-Mikoto (建御名方富命), whose name appears in the Kojiki and derived sources. These...
Tsuchinoko
The Tsuchinoko (ツチノコo槌の子, literally translated as "Earth Spawner") is a yōkai in Japanese culture. The name Tsuchinoko is often used in western Japan; in the northeast the creature is known...
Tsuchinoko
The Tsuchinoko (ツチノコo槌の子, literally translated as "Earth Spawner") is a yōkai in Japanese culture. The name Tsuchinoko is often used in western Japan; in the northeast the creature is known...
Inari Fox
Inari (稲荷) (also known as Oinari) is the Japanese deity of fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry and general success. She is usually depicted as a male, female or androgynous deity,...
Inari Fox
Inari (稲荷) (also known as Oinari) is the Japanese deity of fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry and general success. She is usually depicted as a male, female or androgynous deity,...
