Curated yokai from all ages and places with unique themes
A guide to Japan's famous yokai like Oni, Kappa, Tengu, and Yuki-onna. Discover their origins through classics, folklore, art, and modern culture.
Discover 68 cool yokai like Shuten-doji, Tengu, and Nine-Tailed Fox. Explore their charm through power, speed, majestic presence, monstrous beauty, and folklore.
A curated look at cute yokai—from folklore and ukiyo-e to anime—revealing a charming side of Japanese yokai culture.
Discover Japan’s “beautiful yokai,” from the Snow Woman to Tamamo-no-Mae—seductive spirits whose tragic legends reveal another face of folklore.
A curated look at Japan’s colossal yokai—Gashadokuro, Umibozu, Daidarabocchi—and their overwhelming, mythic scale.
A showcase of Edo-period yokai—Ao Andon, Dodo-Meki, Tenjōname, and more—revealing humor, satire, and everyday life in Edo.
An introduction to Japanese female yokai like Yuki-onna, Ubume, Jorogumo, and Kuchisake-onna, exploring their diverse origins and stories.
A curated look at fox yokai across Japan, from the Nine-Tailed Fox and Tamamo-no-Mae to rich local lore and uncanny kitsune tales.
Toriyama Sekien’s 1776 yokai art book presenting one creature per leaf, the first in the “Gazu Hyakki Yagyo” series.
The 30 yokai in Sawaki Sūshi’s 1737 Hyakkai Zukan, its pictorial features and its influence on Toriyama Sekien, based on museum sources.
Explore Toriyama Sekien’s 1779 Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki, its Rain, Darkness, and Dawn volumes, and the yokai pictured in the original order.
Explore Japanese sea yokai including Umibōzu, Funayūrei, Iso-onna, Nure-onna, Shiranui, Amabie, Bake-kujira, and Isonade through place and folklore.
Explore the Seven Wonders of Honjo—Edo-era ghost tales like Oiteke-bori and Okuri Chōchin, preserved in Sumida’s park reliefs and modern works.
A 1781 yokai picture book by Toriyama Sekien in the Hyakki series, pairing each yokai with brief notes.
Explore Japanese fire yokai and ghost lights, including Hitodama, Shiranui, Tsurube-bi, Aosagibi, Kosenjōbi, Wanyūdō and Enenra, grouped by origin.
Toriyama Sekien’s 1784 yokai album centering on tsukumogami, completing his Gazu Hyakki Yagyo cycle.
Are the ONE PIECE Gorosei based on yokai like Ushi-oni, Itsumaden, Hōgai, Makotsu, or a Sandworm? Explore their monstrous forms.
Sugawara no Michizane, Taira no Masakado, and Emperor Sutoku—Japan’s Three Great Vengeful Spirits feared as onryō and later revered as deities.
What was Onmyōdō? Separate history from legend through Abe no Seimei, shikigami, the Four Symbols, Hōsōshi, Hakutaku and Shōki.
