Japanese yokai art

Halloween is coming up, and with the Frankenstorm on it's way, it's the perfect time to hunker down with some candles and blankets and a good ghost story. Maybe even get your friends together for a hyakumonogatari kaidankai ghost story telling party? If you're planning on telling any ghost stories this year, today's entry should

Japanese Mythology / Pathfinders

Gorgeous Japanese panther with a snake instead of a tail. Style: Oriental. Tags: Best, Awesome, Great

A digital art inspired by Japanese mythology and folklore, Futa-kuchi-onna is a type of yokai, characterized by having two mouths, one normal and another on the nape of the neck, underneath the hair, where the woman's skull divides, forming lips, teeth and tongue, creating a second mouth.

Yōkai are a class of supernatural monsters, spirits and demons in Japanese folklore. The word yōkai is made up of the kanji for "bewitching; attractive; calamity;" and "spectre; apparition; mystery; suspicious". Yōkai range diversely from the malevolent to the mischievous, or occasionally bring good fortune to those who encounter them. Often they possess animal features (such as the Kappa, which is similar to a turtle, or the Tengu which has wings), other times they can appear mostly human…

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The rivers and lakes of Japan are have long been the haunts of a wide variety of strange creatures of all shapes and sizes. Although many of these have been regulated to the realm of pure folklore and myth, there are others that have transcended beyond mere legend and become thought of as something more