Greetings yokai lovers! Tonight's story is one that I quite enjoy. It's much more of a fully narrated and fleshed out story than many of the

"Ghost paintings"—called yūreiga in Japanese—are a genre of traditional Japanese painting. Some of them are hauntingly beautiful, when they portray a ghost whose story is more pitiable; while other ti...

Greetings yokai lovers! Tonight's story comes from volume 4 of Mimibukuro. Unlike Shokoku hyakumonogatari, which I translated a few years ag

Happy October, everyone! Today marks the start of A-Yokai-A-Day, now in its 17th consecutive year! As I mentioned in the previous post, this year's stories come from Mimibukuro, an Edo period work by ...