Yokai

myth:yokai

Japan's vast bestiary of the uncanny: the horned oni and the long-nosed tengu, the river-dwelling kappa, the shape-shifting fox and badger, the vengeful ghost, and the old object grown a spirit — all marching together in the night parade of a hundred demons. Catalogued in the Edo encyclopedias and revived in modern manga, it is the richest taxonomy of the in-between ever made. — Japanese folklore