and he came up with the idea of drawing Japanese monsters during the Halloween season in October that year. “I learned there were many varieties of yokai, such as ‘hyosube’ and ‘nurarihyon ...

Yokai" who gives serious thought to these folklore creatures. He is Masanobu Kagawa, the chief curator at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History, and the first Japanese to get his doctorate in ...

Japan-based illustrator Matthew Meyer has drawn over 500 varieties of yokai―supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore. We ask him about his fascination with the phenomenon of yokai.

Fukusaki (福崎町) is a town located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Kunio Yanagita, a scholar and folklorist who has been called the father of Japanese folklore studies, was born in this town of 20,000 ...

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Japanese Folklore, we track down the legend of the ferocious Ushioni, a Yokai with the hulking body of a bull and an ogre-like face. In certain regions of Ehime ...

Set during the chaotic Sengoku period, Nioh 2 plunges players into a dark, fantastical version of feudal Japan teeming with yokai (supernatural creatures) and legendary samurai. Players are in ...

Mio Meguro (Fuka Koshiba) continues her dream of becoming a writer, while living with yokai (folklore monsters) in a share house. She struggles in her job in the editorial department of a ...