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Nuppepo, an animated lump of decaying human flesh

Mokugyo-daruma

Mikoshi
 is a long-necked creature whose height increases as fast as you can look up at it. 

 

Langnase, westliche 

(Matthew Parry, der die Öffnung Japans nach Westen erzwungen haben soll)

 

 Abumiguchi

 

 Akashita

A creature that looms in a black cloud over a floodgate.

 

 Amikiri

 is illustrated by Sekien as a small snake-like creature with a bird-like head and lobster-like claws. Its name means "net cutter".

 

 Furaribi

means "aimless flame"

 

 Kasha

is a cat-like monster which steals corpses during a funeral

 

 

Menreiki

Nekomata

is a cat whose forked tail is a clue that it has become a dangerous supernatural creature

Nyoijizai

 

Otoroshi  

is a hairy creature sitting on top of a torii gate, thought to be a guardian of the shrine

Shokuin

is the spirit of China's Purple Mountain. It appears as a red, man-faced dragon, a thousand ri tall

Shinkiro

 is a clam that has grown to an enormous size, at which point it rises to the surface of the sea
and breathes out a mirage of distant cities

Shiryo

 is the spirit of a dead person

 

 

Tengutsubute

 (~tengu throwing stones?) is a phenomenon in which stones are suddenly thrown through the air somewhere deep in the mountains. It is thought to be the work of the tengu

Shokera

is a creature which peeks in through the skylight of an old house.

Tsurubebi

is a fireball dropping out of a tree.

 

 Wanyudo

  literally "wheel monk, also known as "Firewheel" or "Soultaker"

Okubi

 are giant heads of either men or women. An okubi appearing in the sky is a sign of impending disaster, which may be a typhoon, earthquake, tsunami, or fire. Okubi are otherwise harmless and will disappear soon after the first sighting.

 

 Satori,

( "consciousness") in Japanese folklore are supernatural monsters ("yokai") said to live within the mountains of Hida and Mino (presently Gifu Prefecture), and able to read people's minds.

People are said to meet them while walking along mountain paths or resting in the mountains. Upon reading a person's mind, the satori would say the person's thoughts aloud faster than a human could. There is also a theory that they are the child incarnations of mountain gods who have come to ruin and turned into a yokai form.

Yarikecho , Koinryo , and Zenfusho.  
Zenfusho is a kettle tsukumogami which holds a clawed staff called koinryo.
It is pictured alongside monsters called Yarikecho and Koinryo.

Narigama

Taimatsu-maru

- Toriyama Sekien


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