Japanese·manga·Nagawa Tomo Omae, Tanuki ni Narane ka?: Nagawa Tomo 2025/03/14brain3 Comments Does the world seem more on fire than usual lately? I feel like it does? But maybe it’s just because the country next door to the one I will soon be returning to wants to annex us or ...
Yokai is a pretty old world, pre-dating most of Japanese folkloric vocabulary. The oldest known use of “yokai” is from the 1st century text “Junshiden” (循史伝) where the author writes “The yokai was in the Imperial Court for a long time.” The term is used to describe a se...