On the winter solstice in Japan it's traditional to take a hot bath with yuzu citrus fruits floating in the water. (There aren't usually yokai and capybaras in the tub with you, but you can hope!😂) It might be good for your health and good luck, but even if not, yuzu smell awesome #FolkloreThursday

Namahage go door to door at new years in the north of Japan, brandishing knives, calling "are there any crybabies here?," chastising bad children and lazy people, and eating and drinking sake offered by the families they visit. #FolkloreThursday

KFC is the traditional Japanese Christmas feast, the result of a marketing campaign supposedly inspired when the manager of Japan's first KFC outlet heard an American resident complaining about missing their holiday turkey and having chicken as the next best thing #FolkloreThursday

the Tsurara Onna, Icicle Woman, is created by the longing of a lonely man gazing at an icicle in the winter. He falls in love with his beautiful visitor and lives happily till spring comes when the snow and icicles melt and she disappears, leaving him heartbroken #FolkloreThursday art @yokai.com

In Japanese folklore, Hatsuyume, the first dream one has in the new year, is said to be especially significant, and it is believed to be good luck to dream of Mount Fuji, a hawk...and an eggplant🤷‍♀️ #FolkloreThursday art by Isoda Koryusai

Have you ever noticed how snow seems to melt faster right around a tree? That's the work of a yokai called Yukinbo, a one-legged child who hops in circles around tree trunks after it snows. #folklorethursday art by @samkalensky.com

Hey all, did you know yokai.com has a web shop? 📘📙📗📕📚 🎅🎄 There's still time to order and have it shipped anywhere in the world by Christmas! 🎄🎁 This holiday, why not give the gift of yokai to that special someone? ⛩️👹👺🦊🐉👻 -> yokai.com/shop/

if you missed Cyber Monday, our cyber shop is always there for you anyway💖😂

and now it is a cyber shopping holiday? our shop is very cyber as well. go get yourself some yokai at YokaiParadeShop.etsy.com and we promise the screen will not look all psychedelic like it does in that photo😅

Kitaro on sale for 50% off? That is an amazing deal!!!

and now it is a cyber shopping holiday? our shop is very cyber as well. go get yourself some yokai at YokaiParadeShop.etsy.com and we promise the screen will not look all psychedelic like it does in that photo😅

another one of our small shops :) we can't sell you grilled eel online, but our pins are nice ;)

another one of our small shops :) we can't sell you grilled eel online, but our pins are nice ;)

Hey it's a holiday for shopping at small shops? Our shops are very small indeed😂 Get some yokai pins for yourself and your friends at yokaiparadeshop.etsy.com #SmallBusinessSaturday

It's happened again... An e-commerce site called Tokyo Tiger has stolen my art and is selling t-shirts and putting ads on IG/X with my artwork. Do not buy from them. These are not licensed products. They are stolen.

TALES OF THE HUNDRED MONSTERS NEXT DOOR Vol. 1 In this supernatural manga, one man’s life is forever altered when a late-night convenience store run leads him into the Yokai market! Out today in print/digital! See RETAILERS section: sevenseasentertainment.com/books/tales-...

btw this is GORGEOUS, you definitely need to ask for it for Christmas or whatever😍

oh hey now that we are back from Japan, the shop has reopened! Get started on your holiday yokai shopping now! yokaiparadeshop.etsy.com

it’s kind of a bummer to be home from Japan but at least I came home to this💖

ooo guess what it turns out this guy has poseable arms!

tanuki of the day

got some yokai stickers! artist is reithanstore on insta

lovely side dishes

hello #folklorethursday I’m traveling in Japan and don’t have anything for the theme but please enjoy this, from a temple in Tokyo where daikon are offered to the god

tanuki of the day

tanuki of the day

tanuki of the day

tanuki of the day

got some more yokai

the yokai went to a cat shrine

tanuki of the day

tanuki of the day

Newspaper clipping from April 28, 1993. In Hirase Village (Gifu Prefecture) a tanuki and fox were found passed out together after drinking 2 cups of sake left out as an offering to the gods. A local snapped this photo several hours before the pair woke up and staggered back into the forest.

got a yokai

yokai had a bento on the train

today’s lunch

Japanese breakfast 💖

possibly the second tanuki of the day, depending on your time zone

tanuki of the day

the yokai had an onigiri at the onigiri shrine

tanuki of the day

our old friends got a makeover!

YOKAI CATS VOL. 10 A fun and full-color comic about supernaturally adorable cats from the creator of THE EVIL SECRET SOCIETY OF CATS and MONSTER CATS (both also from Seven Seas)! Out today in print/digital! See RETAILERS section: sevenseasentertainment.com/books/yokai-...

Special Halloween episode 😱 -- a skit about Sukima Onna (the Woman in the Gaps). Listen here 📻: open.spotify.com/episode/2uPM... #spectrevisionradio #spectrevision #uncannyjapan #japan #jhorror #hauntedhouse #sukimaonna #sukimaonnathegapwoman #halloween2025

a spooky tour of yokai town for halloween

Celebrated Halloween by going to a fox's wedding, in a rainstorm at night funnily enough (funny bc the idiom 狐の嫁入り means sun shower).

RJL's latest—The Master of the Japanese Ghost Story—is now available! In this episode, we explore the enduring legacy of Greek/English/Irish/American/Japanese author Lafcadio Hearn and the ghost story "The Peony Lantern".

love this one

the yokai are getting ready for a trip to the homeland, so order today if you want any pins before we get back in mid November! yokaiparadeshop.etsy.com

Hyōtan-kozō - [yokai] - Once a hollow drinking gourd; used like a bottle or flask, but instead of holding “spirits" it was used superstitiously as a vessel to trap bad luck. it became a sickly Tsukumogami. It pops out of thickets, causing monks to riot in prayer! - samkalensky.com/products/hyo...