Yokai Legend Images

The "Strange Phenomenon and Yokai Legend Image Database is big news for yokai lovers. Loaded with close to 2,000 images taken from scrolls, woodblock prints, and other vintage yokai material, this represents the first time so many yokai illustrations have been collected online in one place. Go ahead and give it a try! Kappa! Tengu! Tsukumo-gami! Tesso! A spectacular Nue by Yoshitoshi, who influenced Frank Miller! Even offbeat characters like good ol' Tofu Kozo! The only catch: you need to know at least the hiragana reading of a yokai's name to pull it off. It doesn't accept English-language searches," as written in the AltJapan blog.Click here to read the rest of the story! Additionally, be sure to follow AltJapan on Twitter.[ad]