Japanese myths 3

second Volume

Jorōgumo
Spider Jorōgumo means prostitute.
 
According to the stories one Jorōgumo is a spider that can change appearance in the form of a seductive woman.
  

Ten
Ten marten (sable: mammal carniboro) forming a column which emits a mysterious flame.
 
I did not find more info but if something interesting, googling kanji Ten 鼬 Uchiha Itachi Akatsuki-Naruto appears, I think it has something to do with the powers of Ten and the sharingan.

Sōgenbi
Sōgenbi Sekien Comments: It can be found in western Saiin outside the capital, near the temple Mibudera. It is based on a real legend about a ghost Kyoto stealing oil lamps.
 
 
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Tsurubebi
Tsurubebi is a fireball thrown out of a árbol.Tal time it is related to Tsurube-otoshi.
 
is a creature from Japanese folklore. He hides in the treetops and falls on innocent human beings, and has several descriptions - sometimes is kind of oni or tengu, sometimes it's a head without a body, and sometimes it's a fireball. His name is an expression of "falling fast", which literally means "a well bucket drop", and sometimes time-otoshi Tsurube drops a well bucket to collect its prey.
 

Furaribi
Furaribi means called aimlessly.
 
calcifer reminds me of Howl's Moving Castle
  
 

Ubagabi
Ubagabi. Comments Sekien. Was said to appear in the province of Kawachi The image shares its name with a real legend of Kyoto
 
apparently this is the legend of an elderly widow who stole oil from a sanctuary, was lynched and left a curse.


Kasha
Kasha is a cat-shaped monster that steals corpses during funerals.
 
The kasha are spirits belonging to Japanese mythology and folklore, like vampires, stealing corpses to devour his flesh and drinking his blood. If you are very hungry they can take even the coffin.
That is why a guard was placed tradicionalmenrte guarding the body of the deceased and made ​​much noise during the previous wake to cremation, to keep out kashas.

there is a version in yugi-oh with the same kanji 火车
 

Yanari
Yanari mean confusing sounds heard in an old house, probably generated by the demons themselves.
 
Yanari, in the context of Japanese mythology, defines the confused noises sometimes heard in an old house. From some Japanese ghosts stories, the story of a spirit, his metamorphosis, the effort that the body suffers, the drama of transformation, where a strange force takes the lead and shows us free. The interpretive technique is inspired, in part, in Butoh.


Ubume
Ubume is the ghost of a pregnant woman holding her child appears in the vicinity of water bodies.
 
The Ubume (产 女, Ubume?), Are a type of yōkai or Japanese ghosts, specifically the spirits of women who died during childbirth, or who did helpless leaving their children already born. This is a sensitive issue, and tried in many stories and legends. Its appearance is the most common of a yūrei, ie white robes and long, matted hair. In some stories, buy sweets and food to their living children, who spend coin to become dry leaves.
 
 

Umizatō
Umizatō is a blind man walking on the surface of the water.
 
The monster image, biwa that resembles a giant foot on the sea, with the right post, lute is depicted on the back. Both because there is no explanation text, or intended to be drawn little is known of the monster.
 

Noderabō
Noderabō is a strange creature that stands near a temple bell.
 
The figure depicted in the temple bell and stood beside her as a person wearing a monk's robe ragged beggar
 

Takaonna
Takaonna, tall woman is a female monster that stretches appearing in homes.
 
Taka-onna yokai is a female who walks and wanders through the rooms of people. They are jealous and ugly ladies who have no popularity with men. These ladies are converted into Taka-onnas because of his jealousy. Some people say they are kind of oni.
 

Tenome
Tenome is a creature with eyes in his hands.
 
    

Tesso
Tesso. Comments Sekien: Raigo becomes a rat within the spirit and will mundo.Raigō Anjari Miidera was a priest who was advisor to Emperor Enryaku-ji, and legend became a swarm of rats sprayed waste in the opponent's temple.
 
 

rokurokubi
Rokurokubi is a woman suffering from a supernatural disease, which her ​​head away from your body to the night, while his neck extends indefinitely.
 
The Rokurokubi is a yōkai found in Japanese folklore. During the day seem normal human beings, but at night they gain the ability to stretch their necks to great lengths like a snake. You can also change your face to a dreadful oni (Japanese ogre) to scare most mortals. Due to an error of Lafcadio Hearn in his book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, these creatures are often mistaken for nukekubi, who has no neck.

In his human form during the day, rokurokubi often live undetected and may have fatal spouses. Many rokurokubi are so used to lead a normal life that make it impossible to keep her condition a secret supernatural. But are tricksters (Trickster) by nature, and have the need to frighten and spy on human beings that is hard to resist them. Some human rokurokubi only shown when they are drunk, drugged or blind to meet this temptation without knowing who they are. Others do not care about secrecy and scare anyone regardless that recognize them. It is said that one can be a rokurokubi without knowing its nature, humans really be believing, and only transform at night while sleeping unconsciously, remembering that in his dreams saw the room or elsewhere at an odd angle.

Kurozuka
Kurozuka is a witch Adachigahara.
 
There is also a picture of that name
   

Sakabashira
Sakabashira is a pillar installed down causing the enchantment of a house.
 
Skasa-Bashira the word with sakabashira often means "dump post". A pole or pillar, especially mestro post of a house must be in the original form of the tree when cut; that is, with the end of the root into the soil. Erecting a pole upside presages misfortune. Groan, growl, chirp at night and will move their hededuras like big mouths, and open its knots and big eyes. Besides his spirit (as each pillar that supports the house has a spirit) unleashed his big body erred by timbering and every room upside down and grins haciedo people.

Makuragaeshi
Makuragaeshi is a spirit that while people sleep, takes place the pillow under the head and moved, placing them at the foot.
 
They say a Makuragaeshi to live in a house, the residence brings good fortune, but if you go there, the place totally declines. To keep this yōkai at home, it must feel appreciated and cared for, in the same way that an adult would raise a child. The Makuragaeshi is an infant by nature, prone to play harmlessly but occasionally cause mischief. You may sit in the seat of a guest turn pillows and people to work similar to kagura music sounds.

Yukionna
Yukionna is the spirit of a woman who appears in snowy places and sometimes leads to death of people freeze.
 
Well this being named as Woman of the Snow (Yuki Onna 雪女) is a yokai (spirit) characteristic of Japanese folklore, which appears in various legends and has been depicted in movies and cartoons. It is usually depicted as a tall, beautiful woman, very pale, almost transparent body, usually dressed in a white kimono, or, as some versions of the story, sometimes naked in the snow. Avanza floating without trace and her gaze terrifies mortals. Said to be the spirit of a woman who died of cold in the snow. Often appears to travelers who are trapped in snowstorms, ice cream to kill them using their breath.

In ancient legends Yuki Onna was an entirely evil and aggressive spirit, he entered the homes of mortals and mercilessly killed them while they slept. More recently, the human stories that can show feelings show, and further accentuating her enigmatic beauty.

Irish writer of Greek origin and naturalized Japanese Lafcadio Hearn in 1903 included a version of the legend of Yuki Onna in his book Kaidan (The Beyond), later adapted into a film in 1964 by Masaki Kobayashi.
Ikiryō
Ikiryō is a living ghost appearing out of your body while its owner is still vivo.Con frequency belongs to a woman motivated by jealousy.
 
A ikiryō (​​生 霊?) Is, in Japanese mythology, is a manifestation of the soul of a living person separately from their body. Traditionally, if someone has sufficient grudge against another person, it is believed that some or all of their soul can temporarily leave their body and appear before the target of his hatred, to curse or otherwise harm you.
Souls are also believed to leave a living body when the body is very ill or comatose, such ikiryō are not malicious.

Shiryōes
Shiryōes the spirit of the dead.
 

yūrei
Yūrei is a ghost.
 
The yūrei (幽 霊) are Japanese ghosts. Like their Western like, are thought to be spirits away from a peaceful life after death because of something that happened to them in life, lack of proper funeral ceremony, or committing suicide. They usually appear between two am and dawn, to scare and torment those who offended them in life, but without causing physical harm.
Traditionally, are female, and are dressed in a shroud, a funeral kimono, white and fastened upside down. Usually lack legs and feet (in the traditional theater that is simulated with a longer than normal kimono), and are frequently accompanied by two wisps (hi-no-tama in Japanese), blue, green or purple. These ghostly flames are separate parts of the more independent spirits ghost. The yūrei also usually have a triangular piece of paper or cloth (called in Japanese hitaikakushi (额 隠, 'hitaikakushi'?)), On his forehead. Several are represented with long black hair. Like many monsters of Japanese folklore, can be repelled yūrei ofuda (御札, 'ofuda'?), Shinto holy scriptures.

On the other hand, vengeful ghosts, called Goryō (​​御 霊, Goryō?) Traditionally curse a person or a place as an act of revenge for something they did in life. Thus, to say "curse you" is a phrase menacing in a moment of anger. A yūrei may also appear to punish the descendants or relatives of the deceased when they have not done the appropriate funeral rites, or tataru tatari.
Since the 90s they have become fashionable films and series in Japan with the central theme ghost stories. The first films were adaptations of Yorei games kaidan existing Kabuki, such as Botan Doro in 1910, and Yotsuya Kaidan in 1912. Newer versions of these popular kaidan were filmed at each decade. Yorei films have changed with various trends in Japanese cinema over the years, never completely out of the screens. In recent times of the 90s and beyond, the J-Horror boom has separate image Yorei beyond Japan and popular culture of Western countries.
The four beasts.
In Japanese mythology there were four sacred beasts guarding each cardinal point and are:

Byakko: A white tiger which represents and protects the west, symbolizing the wind and fall, for its white color and its beginnings in Chinese mythology (Where represented one of the constellations) Byakko seen only in peacetime.
It was rumored that besides the wind also symbolized the lightning and the loud roar that could bring severe storms.


Genbu:
This magnificent creature symbolizes a turtle and a snake that guarded the north and came from the same, as the winter was symbolized as the earth element; It was called the black turtle or tortoise north and represented fen shui home protection and long life, his figure was oriented in a windowless wall to be the strongest part of the house and one of their names was also "The black warrior"
 

Seiryu:
This is the blue dragon that guarded the east and the city of Kyoto, symbolized and spring water, as the protector of the ancient capital of Japan was a symbol that we only gave the heroes or emperors so symbolic of this one.


Suzaku:
This is the symbol of summer and the fire made ​​up of a phoenix, protected the south and like the previous three creatures came from the four Chinese constellations.



Japanese Demons and spirits:
As in most ancient cultures, there are gods, demons, spirits, heroes, keep in mind that Japan has been one of the most important cultures in the spiritual realm, because due to their beliefs Shintoists had a great respect for those issues.
Then we will see some of the demons and spirits mentioned in Japanese history and beliefs.





Oni: Perhaps the most mentioned in all kinds of stories from Japan. This type of demons are the cause of all misfortunes; Its appearance is usually the only one covered by a loincloth humanoid, its flat face and sometimes tend to have a third eye, show that draws a smile from ear to ear and horns on his head, hands and feet have three toes and sharp claws on his right hand possess an iron bar with sharp spikes.
Usually found in Jugoku, but may be on earth, some have the ability to take human or animal form, possess human bodies and steal souls are invisible and can only be seen by soothsayers, priests and especially endowed with supernatural powers people.
sure you heard this name in onimusha dawn of dreams