Hone-onna
Sign in to savethumb|upright|"Honeonna" (骨女) from the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki by [[Sekien Toriyama]] is a yōkai depicted in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki (1779) by Toriyama Sekien. As its name implies, it depicts this yōkai as a woman in the form of bones.
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thumb|upright|"Honeonna" (骨女) from the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki by [[Sekien Toriyama]] is a yōkai depicted in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki (1779) by Toriyama Sekien. As its name implies, it depicts this yōkai as a woman in the form of bones.
In Sekien's explanatory text in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki states that there is a story called in which an aged female skeleton would carry a chōchin (lantern) decorated with botan flowers on it and visit the house of a man she loved back when she was still alive, and then cavort with that man. In other words, this refers to , within the collection of writings called by Asai Ryōi. (The collection was composed as a sort of moral-free version of the Chinese work Jiandeng Xinhua written in 1378 by Qu You.) In the Botan Dōrō, a man named Ogiwara Shinnojō meets a beautiful woman named Yako and they become entangled almost every night, but one night an old person from next door catches a glimpse of it and sees the strange scene of Shinnojō embracing with a skeleton.