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. yōkai 妖怪 Yokai monsters and ghosts .
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江戸 Edo - 妖怪 Yokai monsters, 幽霊 Yurei ghosts
. Legends and Tales from Edo 江戸の伝説 .
- Introduction -
. Edo Nana Fushigi 江戸七不思議 The Seven Wonders of Edo .
The number seven itself carries a mystical significance.
. Honjo Nana Fushigi 本所七不思議 Seven Wonders of Honjo .
Oitekebori 置いてけ堀 / 置行堀
baka bayashi 馬鹿囃子 (tanuki bayashi 狸囃子)
okuri choochin 送り提灯
ochiba shinai shii no ki 落葉しない椎の木 pasania tree without falling leaves
Tsugaru no taiko 津軽の太鼓
kiezu andoo 消えずの行灯
ashi-arai yashiki 足洗い屋敷
. Ghosts (yookai, yuurei, bakemono 化け物 o-bake お化け) .
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Bushu 武州 : Tokyo 東京都、Chiba 千葉県、Saitama 埼玉県
Tales about Yokai along the Tokaido road 東海道
. The 53 stations of the Tokaido Road 東海道五十三次 .
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kuchisake onna 口裂け女 slit-mouthed woman
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haifuri tanuki 灰降狸 the ash-throwing Tanuki
In the year 1854 in the 6th lunar month there was constantly ashes raining down to the ground of the Tenjin Shrine in 麹町 Kojimachi.
People thought it was the malicious deed of a Tanuki badger.
. tanuki 狸 - mujina 狢 － racoon dog, badger legends .
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isogashi いそがし "busy busy"
Showed up first in Kumamoto, running busily around the streets, knocking things over.
Very similar to the tenjoname 天井嘗 ceiling licker.
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kioicho no densha 紀尾井町の電車 the train from Kioi village
An old fox who lived in the vicinity of Kioi village began to imitate the sound of the train toward Akasaka all night long : gatagoto chinchin ガタゴトチンチン.
But there is no train to be seen.
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kurokamikiri 黒髪切 black hair cutter
In the middle of the night a black monster comes out and cuts the hair of people.
Its hands are said to look like scissors, sometimes his mouth also.
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The black hair cutter or Kurokamikiri
is one of the most grotesque and disturbing yokai and has a hair obsession. Kurokamikiri is vaguely humanoid. It has a bloated body with chubby arms and legs. It has no neck but a bulbous head. Its skin is deepest black and the only features visible are a wide mouth with a slug like tongue and huge flat teeth, and two tiny, evil yellow eyes spaced far apart on its dark visage. Kurokamikiri will creep up behind its victims and bite off their hair.
Kurokamikiri is said to make a "mogaaaaa!"sound.
- source : Richard Freeman -
Kurokamikiri anatomical illustration from Shigeru Mizuki's Yokai Daizukai
- source : pinterest.com -
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onimusume, oni-musume 鬼娘 demon daughter
A young girl that would eat anything you put in her mouth. Said to be the yokai of a cat.
A monster version of うら若きむすめ urawakaki musume.
She was often shown in 見世物小屋 curio shows.
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nekomusume, neko musume 猫娘 cat daughter
- source and text : Zack Davisson-
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ooji no kitsune 王子の狐 the Fox from Oji
Ando Hiroshige 安藤広重
. Ooji Inari Jinja 王子稲荷神社 Oji Inari Fox Shrine .
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ooki na otoko 大きな男 the huge man
Once the children of the village were telling stories when in the room next-door there was a strange noise of something falling down. When they looked, it was a huge, huge rice cake and they all enjoyed to eat it together.
"Let's hope another one will fall down!" they wondered and indeed, there was again a noise in the room next-door.
"Where is that rice cake?" shouted a huge man.
They all run away in great fear.
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- source : yokai database -
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tachifusagari たちふさがり twister, whirlwind
tachifusagaru 立塞がる to stand in one's way
A kind of whirlwind (tatsumaki たつまき) that occurs in Saitama.
Also called kawa no tachifusagari 川のたちふさがり (you can not cross the river).
Sometimes it occurs right in the middle of a river and people were quite afraid of it.
It looked like a fearful monster to the people of old.
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図説江戸の幽霊 - 江戸怪談と幽霊画
恐ろしくも美しい幽霊画とともにめぐる江戸の怪談と幽霊の世界
- source : wakanmomomikan.yu-nagi.com -
Tokyo 東京 - 143 tales to explore
- source : nichibun Yokai database -
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Posted By Gabi Greve to Edo - the EDOPEDIA - on 8/19/2015 09:46:00 a.m.
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