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Examples
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Now Kotoko is learning firsthand that healing the yokai is a lot more challenging than getting rid of them!
Mania News Feed 2009
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So I didn't recognize the name, but following a viewing of the Takeshi Miike movie "The Great Yokai War" I did a little bit of digging on "yokai", the various Japanese forest spirits and demons that make up Japanese mythology.
Comics212 2008
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So I didn't recognize the name, but following a viewing of the Takeshi Miike movie "The Great Yokai War" I did a little bit of digging on "yokai", the various Japanese forest spirits and demons that make up Japanese mythology.
Comics212 2008
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So I didn't recognize the name, but following a viewing of the Takeshi Miike movie "The Great Yokai War" I did a little bit of digging on "yokai", the various Japanese forest spirits and demons that make up Japanese mythology.
Comics212 2008
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Kotoko hates yokai; Kuro is linked to them in ways beyond his mystical, medical ministrations; can the two ever be true friends?
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Papp shows how the symbolism of yokai (Japanese folk spirits) has changed over the years.
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Mysterious and nerdy classmate Yuko arrives and reveals himself to be a “yokai doctor,” whose ministrations tend to make the imps cease and desist their mischief.
Weekend reading 2009
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Today, yokai have become the defenders of indigenous Japanese culture.
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Kotoko hates yokai; Kuro is linked to them in ways beyond his mystical, medical ministrations; can the two ever be true friends?
Weekend reading 2009
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Mysterious and nerdy classmate Yuko arrives and reveals himself to be a “yokai doctor,” whose ministrations tend to make the imps cease and desist their mischief.
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There are several terms for these (yokai, ayakashi, kami), and are described in lots of different ways in different tales, sometimes like elves or brownies, sometimes more like giant invisible organisms which, like microorganisms, naturally dwell in various places and only cause problems when things go out of whack (like when the bacteria in your guts are messed up by antibiotics and make you ill, or the bacteria that live all over your body at all times get into a cut).
The Ghost Did What?! Translation Exposing Providentialist Thinking Ada Palmer 2023
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