Japanese Yokai consists of ghosts and supernatural monsters which have been used as an explanation for the phenomena which can’t be accounted scientifically. Numerous Japanese Yokai from the ancient period has dreadful features as they needed the darkness to exist. The darkness stimulates the fear and the imagination at the same time, that produced countless Yokai.
Keywords: all art folklore japanese monsters mythology shinto yokai
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