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Japanese edo period monsters

http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/YoukaiGazou/image/U426_nichibunken_0052_0017_0000.jpg

Living in Japan, you’ll hear folks talk about Yokai 妖怪, a term used to encompass virtually all monsters and supernatural beings.  These range from from the evil oni (ogre) to the mischievous kitsune (fox) or snow woman Yuki-onna.  Yokai can possess both animal and part human features (e.g. Kappa and Tengu) and those that have the ability to shape-shift are called obake お化け.

http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/YoukaiGazou/image/U426_nichibunken_0053_0015_0000.jpg

http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/YoukaiGazou/image/U426_nichibunken_0053_0028_0000.jpg

http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/YoukaiGazou/image/U426_nichibunken_0057_0006_0001.jpg

http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/YoukaiGazou/image/U426_nichibunken_0057_0001_0003.jpg

http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/YoukaiGazou/image/U426_nichibunken_0075_0041_0000.jpg

http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/YoukaiGazou/image/U426_nichibunken_0148_0006_0000.jpg

http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/YoukaiGazou/image/U426_nichibunken_0093_0022_0000.jpg

Check out more edo period Yokai monster  illustrations at the IRC Japan studies section of the Nichibunken Library.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 8:45 amand is filed under Living in Japan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Japanese edo period monsters”

  1. JP pure Says:
    January 26th, 2012 at 9:47 am

    Some great imagination going on with those monsters

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