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Manekute no Yurei – The Inviting Ghost Hand
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara and Other Sources Late at night, when you have to get up to go to the bathroom, a mysterious hand beckons you from a wall. That’s strange enough,...
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Tajima no Sorei – The Poltergeist of Tajima
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Taihei Hyakumonogatari, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources This is a tale of the Edo period, from Tajima province (modern day Hyogo...
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Konnyaku no Yurei – The Konnyaku Ghost of Tenri
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Legends of Tenri, and Other Sources This peculiar story comes from Tenri city, in Nara prefecture. In the span separating Kabata ward from Inaba...
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Garei – The Picture Ghost
Translated from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Ochiguri Monogatari, and Other Sources Long ago, there was a dilapidated folding screen with the portrait of a woman holding her child. The screen was the...
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Katabira no Tsuji – The Crossroad of Corpses
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, A Diplomat in Japan, Part II: The Diaries of Ernest Satow, 1870-1883, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources At the beginning of the Heian era,...
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Shio no Choji – Salty Choji
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Ehon Hyakumonogatari, and Japanese Wikipedia In Kaga province (modern day Ishikawa prefecture), there lived a wealthy man known as “Salty Choji”...
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Suppon on Onryo – The Vengeful Ghosts of the Turtles
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara and Japanese Wikipedia You can still see turtle restaurants in Japan today offering a full-course suppon meal, including a glass of blood served...
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Nebutori – The Sleeping Fatty
Translated and adapted from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Ehon Hyakumonogatari, and Japanese Wikipedia A tale as old as time; in a drunken night of revelry, you climb in bed with a beautiful girl but wake...
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When Food Attacks – 6 Food Monsters From Japan
Japan’s native Yokai monsters can be almost anything—haunted trees, magical cats, transformed rats, or vengeful ghosts of slaughtered warriors. Or they can be food. Maybe animals who are sick of being...
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Oshiroi Baba – The Face Powder Hag
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Konjyaku Hyakki Shui, and Japanese Wikipedia Weather-beaten, sake-bearing snow lady or servant to the Goddess of Cosmetics? It all depends on who...
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Tsurara Onna – The Icicle Woman
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Kaii Yokai Densho Database, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources Is Japan’s Icicle Woman naughty or nice? Loving or lethal? If the stories are to...
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Yuki Warashi / Yukinbo – The Snow Babies
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources Snow and ice have a certain magic to them. You can craft them into whatever shape you want, from snow men to...
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Yuki Onba and Yukinko – The Snow Mother and the Snow Child
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Miyagi-ken no Kowai Hanashi, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources Walking along a forest path at night in the dead of winter, you come upon a...
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Yuki Onna – The Snow Woman
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Kaii Yokai Densho Database, Kwaidan, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources The Yuki Onna is one of Japan’s most well-known and yet unknown yokai....
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Yuki Jiji – The Old Man of the Snow
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Kaii Yokai Densho Database, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources In the village of Hishiyama in Nigata prefecture, there is at least one...
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7 Types of Yokai – Japan’s Snow Monsters
In the frozen north of the Japan, the snow piles deep and high and brings monsters. Whether riding on the avalanche, or coming in the guise of a beautiful young woman or a little lost boy, or hoping...
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Two Tales From the Konjaku Monogatari
Translated and Adapted from Konjaku Monogatari – Tales of Times Now Past How Tosuke Ki’s Meeting with a Ghost-Woman in Mino Province Ended in His Death Tosuke Ki was traveling to his estate in Mino...
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Neko No Kai – The Cat Mystery
Translated from Edo Tokyo Kaii Hyakumonogatari March 17th: A black-spotted, two-tailed cat appeared suddenly, slinking around the Motoyoshi family farmhouse. The son of the family, Genjiro, was fond...
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On Cutting a Spider’s Leg During a Game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai
Translated from Tonoigusa The brave young men had gathered together for a single purpose. “Tonight, we will exchange 100 stories and see if the legends are true; see if something terrifying awaits us...
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Jakotsu Baba – The Old Snake-Bone Woman
Translated from Konjaku Hyakki Shui, Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujara, and Japanese Wikipedia If you are wandering through the woods at night and stumble upon something that looks like a carved stone stamped...
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