Yokai of All of Japan

The classic Japanese ghost: white burial robe, black hair unbound, no feet below the knee.

A night heron whose feathers glow blue-white as it passes overhead—a real bird, and a real light.

Flames that rise from old battlefields on rainy nights, where the dead were never buried.

A blind, biwa-carrying giant who wades the open sea and asks travellers questions with no safe answer.

A clawed thing that peers down through the skylight on the one night you are required to stay awake.

A masked woman who asks 'Am I pretty?'—then removes the mask to reveal a mouth slit ear to ear.

Cold blue 'demon-fires' that flicker in graveyards and wetlands, said to be born of the dead.

Pale floating orbs of soul-fire that drift from the newly dead near graveyards and rooftops.

A colossal skeleton assembled from the bones of the unburied dead that roams to crush the living.

A Japanese merfolk—part human, part fish—whose flesh grants immortality to whoever eats it.

A chimeric, tapir-like beast that devours nightmares when called upon after a bad dream.

A colossal giant whose footsteps shaped Japan's lakes, hills, and valleys.

Ghosts of the drowned who beg for a ladle, then use it to swamp and sink your boat.

The spirit that dwells in an old tree; felling its host brings misfortune.

A small mountain spirit blamed for the echoes that answer you in the hills.

A river otter that shapeshifts and plays tricks, a smaller cousin of the kappa.

A hairy, tusked guardian beast that perches on shrine gates to punish the irreverent.

A fiery cat-beast that descends at funerals to snatch away the corpses of the wicked.

An unseen presence heard washing red beans by the river at night.

A small contrarian demon that provokes people into doing the opposite of their intent.

The ghost of a woman who died in childbirth, begging you to hold her baby.

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

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

A towering bald monk that grows taller the more you look up at it.

A woman whose neck stretches to impossible lengths at night.

An old cat whose tail splits in two as it becomes a powerful yokai.

A jolly shapeshifting raccoon dog, rival prankster to the fox.

Mysterious floating fox-fires that lead travelers astray at night.

A shapeshifting fox spirit that gains tails and wisdom with age.

A cat that gains supernatural powers with age and walks on two legs.

A proud mountain spirit with a red face and long nose, master of martial arts.

Horned, fanged ogres of immense strength, often red or blue.

A mischievous, turtle-like river imp with a water-filled dish on its head.