Shirime
This strange Yokai has an eye where its anus should be. You might want to be a little leery if you happen to be walking down the road late night in Kyoto and a lone travel starts stripping his clothes off in front of you.
Category: Harmless and Benign
Hone-Onna
Two stories surround this yokia. One states that it’s the remains/spirt/ghost an older women who died and comes back to visit her lovers. She would appear to them as a beautiful women but to others she would appear as a skeleton. In the other story, while the women was alive, people said she was ugly…… Continue reading Hone-Onna
Nuppepo
This Yokai can take the form of a human. Sometimes it takes the form of a doctor and other times any form it wants but it’s true form is that of a earless, eyeless blob of meat with wrinkles everywhere. It’s said to eat the fat of dead things and will sometimes take the form… Continue reading Nuppepo
Chochin Obake
Chochin Obake is a lantern shaped yokai. They have been known to spy on other Yokai and are often knowledge about the happenings in the Yokai realm.
Kasa-obake
There are stories about these umbrella-like Yokai that sometimes they appear on rainy nights and if you see one, your feet will be fixed to the ground but other times if you accidently mistake one for an umbrella, they can lift you into the sky.
Noppera Bo
This Yokai can take the form of any creature but most times it likes to take the form of a human. It really enjoys scaring people but it’s mostly harmless.