Five Japanese Female Ghosts
Nov 6 · 8 min read

Japan has an incredibly rich supernatural history. Kaidan (怪談) is the Edo term for “ghost story”; nowadays ホラー (horror) or 怖い話 ( kowai hanashi; “scary story”) is the common term. We already dove a little into Japan’s supernatural landscape in my article on the night parade of one hundred demons and went in-depth on the urban horror icon Momo and her brief Internet reign of terror. Now we’re going to feature some better-known and intriguing…

