ikiryō
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- Regional near-death spirits
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right|thumb| from the 1776 book by Sekien Toriyama
, also known as , , or , is a disembodied spirit or ghost in Japanese popular belief and fiction that leaves the body of a living person and subsequently haunts other people or places, sometimes across great distances. The term(s) are used in contrast to , which refers to the spirit of those who are already deceased.
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