nekomata
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Mountain nekomata
- Domestic cat nekomata
- Yōkai depictions
- Senri
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|"" from the Hyakkai Zukan by [[Sawaki Suushi]]
Nekomata (original form: , later forms: , , ) are a kind of cat yōkai described in Japanese folklore, classical kaidan, essays, etc. There are two very different types: those that live in the mountains and domestic cats that have grown old and transformed into yōkai.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nekomata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.