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Three Tales of Okiku
To learn much more about Japanese Ghosts, check out my book Yurei: The Japanese Ghost Night Stories of Takemata Translated from Takemata Yawa; 1557 Around the time after the Kakitsu Revolt (1441),...
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Nurarihyon – The Slippery Gourd
Translated and Sourced from Koshiki Haidokubara, Gazu Hyakki Yagyo, Yokai Jiten, Ichiban Kuwashi Nihon Yōkai Zukan, Gegege no Kitaro, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Soruces For more adventures of...
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Update on Yūrei: The Japanese Ghost
First off, my deepest gratitude to everyone who preordered my book Yūrei: The Japanese Ghost. It really means everything to me to have your support. And equally my sincerest apologies on the continual...
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Goshiki Fudo – The Five Fudo Temples of Tokyo
Sourced from Japanese Wikipedia, OnMarkProductions, Hamadayori.com, and Other Sources To learn much more about Japanese Ghosts, check out my book Yurei: The Japanese Ghost Five temples stand guard at...
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Happy 93rd Birthday Mizuki Shigeru!!!
Mizuki Shigeru is 93 years old today! And if you don’t know who that is, you have been reading the wrong website! He is the man responsible for this websites existence, and for most of the world’s...
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Ashinonai Yūrei (足のない幽霊) – The Footless Yūrei
To learn much more about Japanese Ghosts, check out my book Yurei: The Japanese Ghost The gentle drops of falling rain. A lonely willow tree standing near a graveyard. And a Japanese ghost, called a...
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Cruel Attack at a Inari Shrine—Four Statues Broken at Kego Shrine in Tenjin,...
Translated from: http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/photo/show/102187 April 25, 2015 (Updated April 26, 2015) At about 1 AM on the morning of the 25th, in 2Chome, Tenjin ward, Fukuoka City, four stone...
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Shigeru Mizuki Ends Watashi no Hibi (My Everyday)
Translated from Yahoo! Japan News 93-year old manga artist Shigeru Mizuki—creator of Gegege no Kitaro and numerous other comics—announced the sudden end of his comic Watashi no Hibi (My Everyday). The...
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Neko Musume – Cat Daughter
Translated and Sourced From Ansei Zakki, Gegege no Kitaro DVD Magazine, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources Part Cat / Part Human, the Neko Musume are interesting and unique creatures in Japan’s...
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Shigeru Mizuki’s Pre-War Notes: An Age of Buried Humanity
Translated from Asahi News 93-year old Shigeru Mizuki—famous artist of manga such as Gegege no Kitaro—recently discovered notes he wrote 73 years earlier before he was shipped off to fight in WWII....
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Kurobozu – The Black Monk
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujara, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources If you wake up after a restless night, with reeking breath and gasping for air—beware! You might have had a...
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Japan and Yokai
From ancient to modern times, Japan’s monsters continue to be part of the cultural psyche. By Komatsu Kazuhiko Translated from this article The 1994 Yokai Boom When Kodansha published my book “New...
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Two Tales of Mermaid Meat
Translated from Opinions About Life and Death as Told by the Legend of Yaobikuni, Japanese Wikipedia, and this Blog To learn more about Japanese Ghosts, check out my book Yurei: The Japanese Ghost...
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Otsukare, Sensei—Goodbye to Mizuki Shigeru
There is nothing sad about the death of Mizuki Shigeru. And I say this as someone who shed more than a few tears when I heard the news last night. He lived about as good a life that could possibly be...
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Message from Mizuki Shigeru’s Family
Translated from the official statement: “My father is dead.” I still can’t believe I am saying those words. “I’m going to live to be a 100 … no, maybe 120 or so.” That’s what Mizuki used to always...
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Big Sale on Yurei: The Japanese Ghost !!!
So, I promise not to turn this into a big advertisement for my works, but this current sale on Amazon is too amazing not to pass on to interested readers of Japanese folklore. As I write this, Yurei:...
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Two Tales of Mermaid Meat
Translated from Opinions About Life and Death as Told by the Legend of Yaobikuni, Japanese Wikipedia, and this Blog To learn more about Japanese Ghosts, check out my book Yurei: The Japanese Ghost...
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History of Ghost Taxis of Japan
Translated and Sourced from Shigeru Mizuki’s Mujara, Japanese Ghost Stories: Spirits, Hauntings, and Paranormal Phenomena, and Other Sources To learn more about Japanese Ghosts, check out my book...
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Cruel Attack at a Inari Shrine—Four Statues Broken at Kego Shrine in Tenjin,...
Translated from: http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/photo/show/102187 April 25, 2015 (Updated April 26, 2015) At about 1 AM on the morning of the 25th, in 2Chome, Tenjin ward, Fukuoka City, four stone...
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Amabie – The Healing Mermaid
Sourced and translated from Kaii Yokai Densho Database, Japanese Wikipedia, Yokai Jiten, Nihon Kokugo Dai-ten, and Other Sources Out on the seas comes upon a strange vision. A three-legged half-fish...
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