right|thumb|260px|"Waira" (はいら) from the Bakemonozukushi (化物づくし), artist unknown. right|thumb|200px|"Waira" (わいら) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Toriyama Sekien]] The waira (わいら) is a Japanese yōkai from Japanese emaki (handscrolls) such as the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi and books such as Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (1776) by Sekien Toriyama.
right|thumb|260px|"Waira" (はいら) from the Bakemonozukushi (化物づくし), artist unknown. right|thumb|200px|"Waira" (わいら) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Toriyama Sekien]] The waira (わいら) is a Japanese yōkai from Japanese emaki (handscrolls) such as the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi and books such as Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (1776) by Sekien Toriyama.
==Concept== In the Hyakkai Zukan (1737, Sawaki Suushi), Bakemonozukushi (化物づくし) (artist and year unknown, owned by Rei Kagaya), the Bakemono Emaki (化物絵巻) (artist and year unknown, owned by the Kawasaki City Museum), the Hyakki Yagyō Emaki (1832, Oda Yoshitarō), and Bakemono no e (c. 1660, artist unknown, Harry F. Bruning Collection, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University) it is depicted with the body of a giant ox and thick sharp claws growing on each of its front legs. Each of these sources have no explanatory text besides their name, and furthermore there do not exist any documents recording any folk legends about them, so it is unknown what kind of yōkai these were intending to depict. All of the pictures depict only the upper body, and there have been no pictures found that depict its lower half, so it is unknown what its whole body looks like.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).