In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Japanese Folklore, we track down the legend of the ferocious Ushioni, a Yokai with the hulking body of a bull and an ogre-like face. In certain regions of Ehime ...

He claims he wears the Hannya mask, which is not typically used ... dealing with a physical transformation into Yokai, which are, in Japanese folklore, spirits, ghosts, and monsters.

Shiro, a reporter, interviews Shinobu, a Noh mask artist of the Karasuma school ... Later, Kazuhiko is found murdered at the Kamo River... “Kyoto Yokai Map” film series.

Long before the supernatural mermaid-like “yokai” shot to fame, however, a U.S.-born illustrator living here started introducing Japanese ghouls and hobgoblins to the world while providing ...

He is Masanobu Kagawa, the chief curator at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History, and the first Japanese to get his doctorate in the study of yokai. In an interview with The Asahi Shimbun ...