Buddhist folklore

pictorial maxim, embodying the proverbial principle “see/hear/speak no evil”, depicted as three monkeys

Japanese monogatari and folktale

traditional Japanese doll modeled after Bodhidharma, the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism

thumb|upright=1.3|A ( artist) in Tokyo. is a form of Japanese street theater and storytelling that was popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the postwar period in Japan until the advent of television during the mid-20th century. were performed by a (" narrator") who travelled to street corners with sets of illustrated boards that they placed in a miniature stage-like device and narrated the story by changing each image.

serpentine creature in Japanese mythology

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Chinese legend

In Japanese folklore, tsukumogami (付喪神 or つくも神, lit. "tool kami") are tools that have acquired a kami or spirit. According to an annotated version of The Tales of Ise titled Ise Monogatari Shō, there is a theory originally from the Onmyōki (陰陽記) that foxes and tanuki, among other beings, that have lived for at least a hundred years and changed forms are considered tsukumogami. In modern times, the term can also be written 九十九神 (literally ninety-nine kami), to emphasize the agedness.

right|thumb| from the 1776 book by Sekien Toriyama

thumb|Ushi-oni, from Bakemono no e scroll, [[Brigham Young University]] right|thumb|"Ushi-oni" (うし鬼) from the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi right|thumb|upright|"Ushi-oni" (牛鬼) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Sekien Toriyama]] The , or gyūki, is a yōkai from the folklore of western Japan. The folklore describes more than one kind of ushi-oni, but the depiction of a bovine-headed monster occurs in most. Ushi-oni generally appear on beaches and attack people who walk there.

thumb|"Issun-bōshi" from Otogizōshi is the subject of a fairy tale from Japan. This story can be found in the old Japanese illustrated book Otogizōshi. Similar central figures and themes are known elsewhere in the world, as in the tradition of Tom Thumb in English folklore.

thumb|300px|Illustrated of Mekhala and Ramasura, from a samut khoi of Thai poetry in the second half of the 19th century. Now in the collection of [[Bavarian State Library, Germany.]]

, sometimes also called , are spirit-like beings told about mostly in the Iwate Prefecture. They are said to be yokai that live in parlors or storage rooms, and that they perform pranks. It is believed that people who saw one would receive good fortune. There are also legends of how they would bring fortune to families. They are also known from Kunio Yanagita's Tōno Monogatari, Ishigami Mondō, and stories about them appear in the 17th and 18th chapters of the Tōno Monogatari and the 87th chapter titled "Zashiki-warashi" of the Tōno Monogatari Shūi. In the 17th chapter, it is written "families

right|thumb|240px|"Kiyohime becomes serpent-bodied at Hidaka River" (1890) (or just Kiyo) in Japanese folklore is a character in the story of Anchin and Kiyohime, which dates back to the 11th century. In this story, she fell in love with a Buddhist monk named Anchin, but after her interest in the monk was rejected, she chased after him and transformed into a serpent in a rage, before killing him in a bell where he had hidden in the Dōjō-ji temple.

Japanese folk tale

ghost in Thai folklore

Chinese folk tale

mythical creature

is a Japanese word consisting of two kanji: () meaning and () meaning or .

parlor game

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thumb|180px|Rudimentary Phi Na spirit house at a rice field in [[Isan]]

Chinese princess

Chinese martial artist

right|thumb|One_Hundred_Aspects_of_the_Moon #13 "Konkai (The Cry of the Fox)". Woodblock print by [[Tsukioka_Yoshitoshi.]]

Chinese martial artist group

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Japanese mythological character

(also written Chūjō Hime or Hase-Hime) (c. 753?–781?) was by most accounts a daughter of the court noble Fujiwara no Toyonari who escaped persecution at the hands of her stepmother by becoming a nun at the Taima-dera in Nara. There she took on the name Zenshin-ni or the Dharma name Honyo (法如). She has become a folk heroine, the subject of numerous Japanese folktales which celebrate her filial piety. She is sometimes called the Japanese Cinderella.

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Korean folk story

building in Putian, China

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rain-god dragon in Japanese mythology

Buddhist text from 1500s

Japanese fairy tale about a heroic samurai Tawara Tōda, based on real-life figure

Sinhalese exorcism ritual

thumb|right|180px|"Ōshū Adachigahara Hitotsu Ie no Zu" () by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. This color print was banned by the Meiji government for "disturbing public morals." thumb|180px|right|"Kurozuka" from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Toriyama Sekien]] Kurozuka (, "black mound") is the grave of an onibaba in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture (previously Oodaira), Adachi District, or the legend of that onibaba. It lives in Adachigahara (the name of the eastern shore of Abukuma River as well as the eastern base of Mount Adatara) and it is told in legends as the "Onibaba of Adachigahara." The Kurozuka is

thumb|Nuribotoke ぬりぼとけ from Bakemono no e (化物之繪, c. 1700), Harry F. Bruning Collection of Japanese Books and Manuscripts, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, [[Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.]] right|thumb|240px|"Nuribotoke" (ぬりぼとけ) from the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi right|thumb|200px|"Nuribotoke" (塗仏) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Sekien Toriyama]] The is a yōkai found in Japanese yōkai emaki such as the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi. They are also depicted in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien.