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    Obake (お化け) and bakemono (化け物) are a class of yōkai, preternatural creatures in Japanese folklore. Literally, the terms mean a thing that changes, referring...
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    Kasa-obake (Japanese: 傘おばけ) are a mythical ghost or yōkai in Japanese folklore. They are sometimes, but not always, considered a tsukumogami that old...
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  • Obake no Q-Tarō (Japanese: オバケのQ太郎, Hepburn: Obake no Kyū-Tarō) is a Japanese manga series by Fujiko Fujio about the titular obake, Q-Taro, who lives with...
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    Chōchin'obake (redirect from Chochin Obake)
    Chōchin'obake (提灯お化け, 'paper lantern ghost') or chōchin-obake is a Japanese yōkai of chōchin (a type of lantern), "[the] lantern-spook (chochinobake)...
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    Karuta (redirect from Obake karuta)
    latter half of the 19th-century before being supplanted by the Edo version. Obake karuta is an obsolete variation of Iroha karuta unique to Tokyo. The cards...
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  • Bakotsu (馬骨, lit. 'horse bone') is one of the 16 yōkai depicted in the Tosa Obake Zōshi, drawn during the Edo period; it appears as a skeletal, flaming horse...
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  • Hawaiian historian, author and folklorist. He was primarily known for his Obake Files, a collection of articles and stories regarding native and imported...
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    The Tosa Obake Zōshi (土佐お化け草紙, lit. 'Tosa ghost book') is a Japanese yōkai emaki (illustrated scroll). It was written by an unknown author and is set...
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    Shiryō (死霊), meaning dead spirit, or the more encompassing Yōkai (妖怪) or Obake (お化け). Like their Chinese, Korean, and Western counterparts, they are thought...
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  • Chubby Cherub (known in Japan as Obake no Q-tarō: WanWan Panic (オバケのQ太郎 ワンワンパニック, Obake no Q-tarō WanWan Panikku, lit. "Q-tarō the Ghost: BowWow Panic"))...
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