Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Taihei Hyakumonogatari, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources This is a tale of the Edo period, from Tajima province (modern day Hyogo pref...
https://hyakumonogatari.com/2013/10/21/tajima-no-sorei-the-poltergeist-of-tajima/
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Japanese Wikipedia, and Kaii Yokai Densho Database. Some yokai are scary, some are funny, and some are just … weird. The tenjoname—that...
https://hyakumonogatari.com/2013/09/19/tenjoname-the-ceiling-licker/
Translated and sourced from Japanese wikipedia and other sources Are you brave enough? That is the question that will be answered by playing kimodameshi, the Japanese test of courage. You will ha...
https://hyakumonogatari.com/2012/02/01/kimodameshi-the-test-of-courage/
Translated and adapted from Japanese Wikipedia and other sources This is a story from the Edo period. In Honjo, in Hirosagi-han fiefdom, a Daimyo of the house of Tsugaru had his mansion. Daimyo�...
https://hyakumonogatari.com/2012/01/11/tsugaru-no-taiko-the-taiko-of-tsugaru/
Translated and adapted from Japanese Wikipedia and other sources This is a story from the Edo period. In Honjo, in the Hiradoshinden-han fiefdom, in the house of Matsura, there stood a Daimyo’s...
https://hyakumonogatari.com/2012/01/10/ochiba-naki-shii-the-chinkapin-tree-of-unfallen-leaves/
Translated from Edo Tokyo Kaii Hyakumonogatari In North Toyoshima, in the town of Oji, a dealer in hardware named Kumatani Harumachi had a house where five people died in the month of March. In...
https://hyakumonogatari.com/2011/05/09/the-snake%E2%80%99s-curse/
Translated from Nihon no Yurei In 1870, Yoshioka Gondayu died in jail, imprisoned by the newly-installed Meiji government at the start of the Meiji reformation. But before that, he had been ...
https://hyakumonogatari.com/2010/11/17/the-cursed-mansion-of-yoshioka-gondayu/