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Yokai
Y艒kai (ghost, phantom, strange apparition) are a class of supernatural monsters, spirits, and demons in Japanese folklore. The word y艒kai is made up of the kanji for "bewitching; attractive; calamity" and "spectre; apparition; mystery; suspicious".聽They can also be called ayakashi , mononoke or mamono. Y艒kai range diversely from the malevolent to the mischievous, or occasionally bring good fortune to those who encounter them.
Y艒kai often possess animal features (such as the kappa, which looks similar to a turtle, or the tengu, which has wings), yet others appear mostly human like kuchisake-onna. Some y艒kai look like inanimate objects (such as tsukumogami), while others have no discernible shape. Y艒kai usually have spiritual or supernatural abilities, with shapeshifting being the most common. Y艒kai that shapeshift are called bakemono聽or obake.
Japanese folklorists and historians explain y艒kai as personifications of "supernatural or unaccountable phenomena to their informants". In the Edo period, many artists, such as Toriyama Sekien, invented new y艒kai by taking inspiration from folk tales or purely from their own imagination. Today, several such y艒kai (e.g. Amikiri) are mistaken to originate in more traditional folklore.
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