Aobōzu
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- yōkai
- Part of
- Japanese folklore
- Country
- Japan
- Image
- SekienAobouzu.jpg
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- indigenous to
- Kagawa Prefecture
- name in kana
- あおぼうず
- present in work
- Gazu Hyakki Yagyō
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Encyclopedic overview
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- In folk legends
- Nagano Prefecture
- Shizuoka Prefecture
- Okayama Prefecture
- Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Kagawa Prefecture
- Yamagata Prefecture
- Fukushima Prefecture
- In urban legends
- In the {{Transliteration|ja|Gazu Hyakki Yagyō}}
- See also
- References
180px|thumb|alt=A large blue monster with a wide grin and balding grey hair peers over a gate.|An depicted in a deck of cards.
is a Japanese (spirit) found in a number of Japanese legends. Stories about , in particular the exact details of the spirit, vary widely.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aobōzu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.