Japanese ghosts

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I love Japanese ghosts, ghouls (youkai) and the like. For further reading check out Lafcadio Hearn's In Ghostly Japan (1899), Tales of Moonlight and Rain, and 60's ghost flicks. For the time being I will post Japanese art depicting such things. Others with appropriate images, please contribute!

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Picture is self-explanatory.

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I was bidding on this awesome painting, but unfortunately it went for about $800... Good ghost paintings are very expensive, although I own a few.

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One of my favorite images of a haunted house.

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This is a Youkai, I shit you not.

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>>7866

Amazon?

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Hooooo....?

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Yeah, it's probably the most informative English youkai sites. Gotta give the guy props for doing his research!

http://www.youkaimura.org/

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Too /v/ for /jp/?

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Because even though they're in a vidya, they're still japanese demons.

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A kappa.

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A soldier in Japan was once about to cross a bridge near a lake when he saw a huge snake coiled on the bridge so that no one could pass. Now, do you think that this soldier turned and ran away, as many others had that day? No, indeed! He knew that a bridge was not the place for a snake, so he walked up and stamped on its head.

As he stepped on him, the snake was gone. Only a dwarf stood before him, who at once began bowing his head to the ground with respect.

"Now, at last I have found some one who is not a coward!'' cried the dwarf. "Here I have been waiting for days to find a man who was brave enough to help me, but none dared cross the bridge. Everyone turned and ran at the sight of me. But you are strong-hearted. Will you do me a great kindness and save many lives?"

The soldier answered:

"I am a soldier of the Emperor, and I am here to save life and right wrong. Tell me your trouble and I will see what can be done to help it."

"There is a terrible centipede," said the dwarf, "and he lives in the woods on the mountain. Every day he comes down to the shore to drink. He dips his thousand poisonous feet into the beautiful water, turning it all foul and dirty. It kills all the fishes in the lake, too. I am the king of the lake, and I am trying to find some way to save my fishes."

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Thanks for posting that tale!

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Suddenly, youkai. And Backbeard, too.

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Sorry, The only images I have in this vein are tentacle sex

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I too enjoy youkai

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When I hear see Youkai I can only think about Touhou. However there was an awesome thread about Japanese ghosts, superstitions and urban legends on /x/ the other day. I'll dig up some images from that thread.

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Check the youkai's dictionary written by Mizuki (Kitarou's mangaka).

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Well, I would have assumed it was a beholder. Thank you for clarifing

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Any place I can go to find these? rs does nothing.

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A Youkai beholdeR? Unpossible.

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Yeah, that's a blackbeard. Old Japanese ghost.
http://www.youkaimura.org/backbd.htm

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Yeah, that's a blackbeard. Old Japanese ghost.
http://www.youkaimura.org/backbd.htm

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What I like is when they're referenced in manga and anime somehow.
It just feels cool.

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No l.

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Err, I guess it's not translated in English.
Maybe I'll scan some parts of my French translation.

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This thread is awesome.

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Nice site

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I prefer my local folklore bestiary over Japan's. Even if Japan has a lot more due to existing longer as a country.

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I find Japanese ghost/goblin tales interesting because the ghosts/monsters are not all automatically bad. Some are, of course, but a lot are helpful, playful, comedic, etc. This movie is a good example of this, and a highly recommended youkai flick for anyone. The ghosts team up the thwart some evil dudes:

http://www.amazon.com/Yokai-Monsters-Ghosts-Kojiro-Hongo/dp/B0000AINJX

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"I do not know that I can help you," said the soldier, ''but I will gladly go with you and try. "

The dwarf took him to his home in the bottom of the lake. It was a beautiful house, all made of coral and pearl. His servants, the crabs and sunfishes, brought them rice, fruit, and tea, served on tiny green leaves. The tea looked like water and the rice looked like seafoam, but they tasted all right, so what matter?

Just as they were in the middle of their feast they heard a mighty roaring and rumbling. It sounded as though a mountain were being torn up.

''There he is!" he cried. "That is the noise of his thousand feet as they crunch on the stones of the mountain side. We must hurry or he will get to the water and poison it again. "

They hurried to the edge of the lake and saw the centipede already very near. He looked. like an army marching with colored lanterns, for each one of his thousand legs glowed with many beautiful shades of crimson and green and gold.

The soldier drew his great bow and let an arrow fly at the monster's head. He never missed his aim, and the arrow struck the ugly head of the centipede, but bounced away. A second arrow flew, but that, too, bounced away.

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He had but one arrow left and the monster was almost at the water's edge.

Suddenly he remembered that when he was a boy his grandfather had told him that if you wet the head of an arrow in your mouth it will kill any monster.

It took just a second to wet the head of his last precious arrow and send it whizzing at the centipede. It struck him on the forehead and he fell over dead.

Suddenly the soldier found himself back in his own house, which was now changed into a castle. Before him were five gifts, on each of which he read, ''With the loving thanks of the Dwarf."

The first of these gifts was a huge bronze bell, on the outside of which was told in pictures the story of the centipede. The second was a sword which would always give its owner the victory. The third was a suit of armor so strong that no swords or arrows could go through it.

The last two were the most wonderful of all. One was a roll of silk of any color he wished, and the more he used of the silk the more the roll grew. The other was a bag of rice which never grew less, although he used all he wished for his friends and himself.

This last gift seemed so wonderful to the people that they called him Lord Bag of Rice from that day.

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>Lord Bag of Rice
That name sounds kind of insulting.

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Why? Rice is such an important staple of Japanese life that it would be pretty honourable to be called that I think.

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you should search for "心霊" on youtube. lotsa interesting stuff.

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