Yokai by Body

A childlike, one-eyed monk yokai that startles people on lonely roads.

A one-eyed man-eater from the Izumo gazetteer, often called the oldest oni in any surviving Japanese text.

A one-eyed, hairy mountain child—the kappa's mountain form—that helps loggers in exchange for food.

A one-eyed, three-fingered shape rising from a flooded paddy, crying 'Give back my field!'

A one-eyed yokai that appears without warning before someone walking alone on a night road, attacks them and eats them.

A weasel-shaped thing that goes for cattle and horses, listed among the beasts in an Edo encyclopedia.

An oni riding a headless horse, abroad on setsubun night and the year's turn.

A split-mouthed paper lantern spirit with a lolling tongue.

Countless eyes that appear on the paper sliding screens (shoji) of a ruined house.

A thieving woman whose arms sprout countless bird-eyes as punishment for stealing coins.

A three-eyed, eight-faced man-eater that preyed on travelers from a Kōchi mountain, until it was burned alive.

A bald figure on a Kyoto road with a single shining eye where its anus should be.

A shapeshifting badger blamed for roadside tricks nationwide, though the same name has also meant the tanuki or the civet depending on where and when you ask.

A courtesan whose face and body are entirely hidden by cascading hair.

The same growing giant that other regions call taka-nyūdō, but a bōzu here.

A huge black sea spirit that rises to capsize ships in calm waters.

A pale, beautiful woman of the snowstorm who freezes travelers to death.

A woman with a second, ravenous mouth hidden at the back of her head.

A mountain crone who shelters travelers—then may devour them.

A woman whose neck stretches to impossible lengths at night.

A woman whose body or neck runs out to seven fathoms—about 12.6 metres—before she looks down at you.

A horse's head that dangles from an old hackberry tree, neighing to frighten passersby.

A giant skeleton that modern yokai books say is made from the bones of the unburied dead.

A skeletal woman who, seen as beautiful only by her lover, visits him each night.

A whale of bare bones surfacing off Shimane in the rain, followed by fish and birds nobody can put a name to.

A one-eyed, one-legged umbrella come to life—an icon of tool-spirits.

A one-legged old woman in the snow. You can follow her prints, and there is only ever one line.

A booming, thunder-like sound over Urado Bay, counted as one of the three wonders of Tosa.

Sparks that cling to a traveler's straw cape on rainy nights—and multiply if you try to brush them off.

A rice paddle thrown out after long service, which gets up at night and makes trouble.

Hair kept in a hemp tub as a shrine's sacred object, which grows long and binds intruders when the enshrined kami's mood turns unsettled.