百鬼夜行

Happy New Year!! ...I'm a little late, aren't I?  In all honesty, I began this last December and was just that lazy getting aroun...

I have been asked to do my best to explain this : I'd love to tell you about the ironic subtleties included to mock the upper crus...

And now we have come to the end of our week of element-based yōkai.  Today's yōkai features that most crucial element of all, the human...

So now it's Day 6 of Yōkai Week, and I've run out of the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy. "Well, that's obvious,&quo...

Our next element is water, 水.  I did a water ghost before, and in fact, the Funa-Yūrei have a bit in common with today's yōkai, but t...

Today's yōkai represents the Chinese element 金.  As we've seen before, this means gold.  However, since I've already talked abo...

Today's element is earth, 土.  Today's yōkai is also kind of popular in Japan.  Though perhaps best known from the ever-popular and ...