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Matthew Meyer @yokai.com · 03/10/2026
A-Yokai-A-Day, October 3: How a Maidservant’s Ghost Came to Her Master’s House 👻🍡 My question to you, readers: do you eat the dango or not? matthewmeyer.net/blog/2026/10... #ayokaiaday #halloween
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A-Yokai-A-Day: How a Maidservant’s Ghost Came to Her Master’s House | MatthewMeyer.net
"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...
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
order Zack's book now, so we get a book about tanuki later! (It's a good book, too😅)
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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 01/10/2026
Apologies in advance, but I can't afford to feel bad about it. It is time for the big push for my book KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN. Preorders this month will make or break not only the success of the book, but my future books with the publisher. Please buy link.amazon/B0d6PY7Gv
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car #yokai
a bunch of yokai pins on the boardwalk of a beach with a red convertible and an old VW bug
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the spouse can't help but pick up bits of Japanese folklore from me but can't always keep them straight: I asked him to look for inarizushi at the market and when he came home he said "they didn't have that, uh, foxes wedding sushi"😂
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tsukimi, the Autumn moon viewing party, is an old tradition in Japan, held on the night of the full moon of the eighth month of the solar calendar. Seasonal produce and round rice dumplings that represent the moon are served. #FolkloreThursday
Ukiyo triptych of three women in kimono looking at the moon, with a table full of round rice dumplings. according to https://ichiban-japan.com/tsukimi-japon/ by Utagawa Kuniteru
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Momiji was a witch in the mountains of Nagano. Disguised as a princess, she invited some samurai to a leaf-viewing party. That night in a dream, the god Hachiman warned one of them and gave him a sword. He awoke with the sword in his hand and used it to slay her #folklorethursday art @yokai.com
art of a woman with demon horns in traditional Japanese clothing, against a background of fall maple leaves
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anything can come to monstrous life in Japan, including vegetables. In one legend, a pumpkin monster called Sunamura no onryō appeared in the neighborhood of Sunamura night after night, terrorizing people by chasing them around #FolkloreThursday
old Japanese print of a walking vine carrying a pumpkin as its head
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everyone talks about the cherry blossoms, but the autumn blooming chrysanthemum is also a traditional symbol of Japan, depicted in the Imperial crest and on passports. A remarkable traditional way of growing them prunes and trains a single plant into a large cascade of flowers #FolkloreThursday
a yellow chrysanthemum plant, just starting to bloom, trained into a cascade of flowers trailing out of the potcover of Japanese passport from Wikipedia. Red with a stylized gold chysanthemum
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Jinmenju is a tree that bears fruit in the autumn that looks exactly like a human head. They can't speak, but they can laugh, and if they laugh too hard they fall off the tree. #FolkloreThursday hyakumonogatari.com/2012/06/03/j...
illustration by Shigeru Mizuki of a tree with human heads growing from it
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
yokai exhibit for anyone in LA www.giantrobot.com/blogs/gr-new...
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YOKAI: An Exhibition of Myths and Folklore Begins Sept 12
YOKAI: An Exhibition of Myths and Folklore Giant Robot Gallery presents YOKAI, a group exhibition exploring myths, folklore, and the strange creatures that inhabit them. Featuring work by more than 60...
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Uncanny Japan Podcast--Thersa Matsuura👹👋 @uncannyjapan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first #kappa figurine I ever bought about 30+ years ago. I still have him and today he's celebrating the autumnal equinox #autumnalequinox
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I saw a ningyo!
merman/ningyo in museum display museum placard explaining that Japan made these creatures for export to the west
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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Join us on 24th September for our autumn and fall-themed #FolkloreThursday! Our hosts will share posts made to the hashtag at the following times BST: 9am-2pm 3.30pm-4.30pm 6pm-7pm 🍂🍎🎃 (🎨John William Godward, Autumn.)
A woman in a flowing red dress with a green sash reaches for grapes hanging from a vine, with a bowl of grapes at her feet. John William Godward, Autumn.
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pompoko-chan, mascot for the town of Shigaraki in Koka City, is a baby tanuki (raccoon dog) girl who's invariably smiling.
A smiling brown raccoon dog mascot stands on a pathway.
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
omg look at my tanuki from @acodecodoll.bsky.social !!!’
tanuki in a gorgeous monk outfit tanuki in a gorgeous monk outfit
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Labor Day cookout #yokai
yokai grilling hot dogs and enjoying beer, watermelon and cucumbers
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Uncanny Japan Podcast--Thersa Matsuura👹👋 @uncannyjapan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Well, this was a surprise! A sudden, literally-only-one-full-day trip to Hokkaido just happened to correspond with the Jigoku Matsuri (Hell Festival). So we went! Making a longer version with giant flag dancing and some explanations for patrons...will get that up this weekend 👹✨
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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 04/09/2026
Odoriba Station in Yokohama is watched over by enormous slit-pupiled eyes, with pawprints guiding travelers and tickets showing a cat mid-dance step. The cats it honors are bakeneko, ordinary cats said to become yokai once they reach a certain age.
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The Legendary Cat Yokai of Odoriba Station, Yokohama - Unseen Japan
It's not often you see a subway station dedicated to dancing cat spirits - but that's exactly what you'll find at Yokohama's Odoriba Station.
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Uncanny Japan Podcast--Thersa Matsuura👹👋 @uncannyjapan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The shoji in my bedroom are riddled with holes, so I started making paper eyes to cover them. Now at night, I lie in bed with a good book, my freaky-deaky fairy lights on in the darkened room, & I wonder what it looks like from outside to my neighbor who already has reservations about me. 👀 👀 👀
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
if you're lonely for yokai now that the festival is over, we can help you with that ;) yokaiparadeshop.etsy.com
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The mascot of Akita Prefecture, Ndatchi, is a cute version of Akita's legendary folkloric monster, the Namahage.
A red mascot with yellow hair and mouth with pointed teeth and an orange skirt and boots stands in front of a promotional booth.
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
last summer festival treats! have some dango with your yokai friends
a miniature dango stand
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Aco Burnett @acodecodoll.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’ve been away from Bluesky due to messaging issues. Sorry for the late notice! I’m showing yokai at Centre Gallery, Bristol, until Wed 26th. Yokai models are also now available: bertramfiddle.com⁠ 
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
buy a wind chime as a souvenir of the festival #yokai
a miniature stand selling traditional glass wind chimes
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
take a break from snacking and scoop some goldfish
yokai playing the traditional goldfish scooping festival game
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
or some takoyaki!
yokai at a takoyaki stand
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
had enough sweets? have some grilled squid
ikayaki standbwith yokai
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
have a crepe! recommended by tanuki #yokai
tanuki waiting for a tanuki to make a crepe
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Uncanny Japan Podcast--Thersa Matsuura👹👋 @uncannyjapan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🕯️One hundred ghost stories👻 One hundred candles. 🕯️After each tale, another flame goes out.🕯️ 🕯️And when the last candle is extinguished…👻well, that’s when things are supposed to get interesting.🕯️ 🕯️New Uncanny Japan: Why Summer Is Ghost Season in Japan 👻🕯️ Listen wherever you get your podcasts.👂😊👻
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
obon is over but the yokai festival is not! #yokai
tanuki at a chocolate covered banana stand
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
obon is over but the yokai festival is not! #yokai
tanuki at a chocolate covered banana stand
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
yokai obon dance! #yokai
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
yokai obon dance! #yokai
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
the festival continues! want some shaved ice? #yokai
miniature kakigori stand with Tofu Kozo
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
the festival continues! want some shaved ice? #yokai
miniature kakigori stand with Tofu Kozo
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yokai are ready too!
miniature yokai sitting on the porch of a miniature house with miniature eggplant cow and cucumber horse
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I feel like this one must have got buried in the thread and missed because otherwise surely it would have more likes😂
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
obon starts today, are your vegetable animals ready? #obon #お盆
cucumber horse and eggplant cow with yokai admiring them
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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm learning about Ino Heitaro Mononoke Roku, a classic story of a young samurai haunted for 30 days and nights by yokai and I love how often the various illustrations adapted from the tale convey mundane annoyance with these supernatural intrusions rather than outright terror.
A giant hand reaching through a door. The hands fingertip split into more hands, some of those hands have hands. Heitaro looks unimpressed.Heitaro accidentally putting his foot on a creature laying in a sparse patch of grass and making a face that says "ewww" more than "AHHHH"A face pops out of a wall while Heitaro sits with his hand boredly in one hand with his back turned to itSpectral heads on spikes surround Heitaro's futon. He sleeps.
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
no, we didn't open a shop😂 it's an art exhibit
a window of the Japan Information and Cultural Center in Washington DC with a sign that says Yokai Parade
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
or doughnuts? #yokai
yokai and a miniature donut stand
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
it’s summer festival time! who wants taiyaki? #yokai
miniature festival taiyaki stand with yokai
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
saturday special for foxes #yokai
a sign for inarizushi with a drawing of a fox
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
oh hey it's #InternationalCatDay! celebrate by getting yourself a yokai cat pin maybe?
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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Not all owls are what they seem. There is a yōkai (妖怪) in Japan known as a 'Tatarimokke' (祟り蛙 lit. 'cursed infant'). These 'owls' have been possessed by the spirit of a dead baby or young child, and will stay close to the family home. #祟り蛙 #妖怪 #tatarimokke #owl #yokai
Painting "Cat's Nightmare" by Louis Wain. Sleeping cats have awoken to find themselves surrounded by inquisitive owls.
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Matthew Meyer @yokai.com · 01/08/2026
Yokai lovers! If you are in Kobe this fall, this is an exhibit you'll want to see!
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Matthew Meyer @yokai.com · 02/08/2026
It's back! Fukui's Yokai Fes runs this year from 8/13 to 16, at Happinin in Fukui ekimae! Come and see an exhibition of my yokai paintings, as well as a showcase of Fukui's traditional yokai and kidan! I'll be there signing books as well. Don't miss Fukui's rare and unique yokai!
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Yokai Parade @yokaiparade.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
a long line at the grilled eel shop for Day of the Ox
miniature eel shop with yokai pins and figures
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