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    Yōkai (妖怪, "strange apparition") are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore. The word yōkai is composed of two kanji characters...
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  • The Great Yokai War (Japanese: 妖怪大戦争, Hepburn: Yōkai Daisensō) is a 2005 Japanese fantasy film directed by Takashi Miike, produced by Kadokawa Pictures...
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  • Kitarō series "The Great Yōkai War" (妖怪大戦争, Yōkai Daisensō) draws a great deal of influence from this story, with Kitarō and his yōkai friends driving a group...
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  • Tonari no Yōkai-san (Japanese: となりの妖怪さん, lit. "The Yōkai Next to Me") is a Japanese manga series by noho. It originally began serialization online via...
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    Nekomata (category Yōkai)
    Nekomata (original form: 猫また, later forms: 猫又, 猫股, 猫胯) are a kind of cat yōkai described in Japanese folklore, classical kaidan, essays, etc. There are...
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    The Buson yōkai emaki (蕪村妖怪絵巻) is an 18th century collection of "picture scrolls" (絵巻, emaki) depicting Japanese yōkai by poet and painter Yosa Buson....
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  • Japanese haunted towns are towns legendarily inhabited by ghosts (yōkai). These include Yōkai Street (officially known as Jōkyo Street or Taishōgun shopping...
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  • Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (Japanese: 妖怪百物語, Hepburn: Yōkai Hyaku Monogatari, lit. One Hundred Yōkai Tales) is a 1968 Japanese fantasy horror film directed...
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    Ayakashi (アヤカシ) is the collective name for yōkai that appear above the surface of a body of water. In Nagasaki Prefecture, the atmospheric ghost lights...
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    Kappa (folklore) (category Yōkai)
    other yōkai, they tracked down Hakudoshi and Kagura, that he didn't they're Naraku's incarnations, and watching as Hakudoshi to peer into the yōkai heads...
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