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 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 ...
In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore, we journey to the Shima Peninsula of Mie Prefecture, where legend tells of the Tomokazuki. When shell divers descended into the ocean ...