Yokai Database

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. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
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Kaii-Yōkai Denshō Database 怪異・妖怪伝承データベース

The International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)

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A database of yōkai and mystery stories which have been collected from Japanese folklore.
The database is published by International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
The prototype was created on March 19, 2002, and the first live version was released on June 20, 2002.
The project supervisor is Kazuhiko Komatsu (小松和彦), a Japanese folklorist who is a professor of the study of yōkai.

The database includes verbal information, without visual information. Data are collected from:

Akira Takeda (竹田旦) "民俗学関係雑誌文献総覧" 1978
"日本随筆大成" 1975 - 1978
Kunio Yanagita "妖怪名彙"
Books of histories of Japanese local governments.

For each item, in the database has an abstract of around 100 characters.
The full text is searchable, and the database can be searched by name or the region where the item was found.
- source : wikipedia -

Folktales of Strange Phenomena and Yōkai (Spirits, Ghosts, Monsters)
Paintings of Strange Phenomena and Yōkai (Ghosts, Monsters, Spirits)

. nichibun.ac.jp/en .. .

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- search the nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -

- search the database in English -

- the old search pages - sekiei.nichibun.ac.jp -
https://sekiei.nichibun.ac.jp/cgi-bin/YoukaiDB3/msearch/msearch.cgi?index=&config=&hint=%E3%81%B2%E3%82%89%E3%81%8C%E3%81%AA&set=1&num=100&query=
- now I get the message
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/YoukaiDB3/msearch/msearch.cgi on this server.

the very old search page (not active any more)
https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/YoukaiDB/search.html
now gives a list of the most frequent words
(from kitsune キツネ ［3,768事例］ to mujina ムジナ ［462事例］ )
and links to all prefectures


The second search function on this page
その文字を含む怪異・妖怪呼称の一覧を示します。（全国）
［呼称検索］ has a space for words that works !!

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. Japanese legends and tales 伝説　民話　昔話 - Introduction .

- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan - My Collection

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