Five Japanese Female Ghosts

Unseen Japan
Nov 6 · 8 min read
Japan is rife with things that go bump in the night. Here, we introduce five Japanese female ghosts that have scared children senseless for centuries.

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…

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The Japan you don't learn about in anime. Stories about people and events in Japan, past and present. By Unseen Japan Press.

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