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Bake-Kujira is an ocean spirit from the folklore tales of Japanese fishing villages. Literally meaning “ghost whale,” these eerie creatures are the vengeful spirits of whales killed by fishing villages. The whales appear in dark ocean waters on rainy nights and are said to be shadowed by strange, unrecognizable birds and a species of fish that no one had ever seen before. Whales were highly profitable and a blessing when a poor coastal village spotted one on the horizon. They would, naturally, race out to hunt it. Sometimes, it is said, the whale would not be a profit-blessing at all, but the animated skeleton of an already deceased whale. Spears would pass through the beast’s bony body and when the villagers sailed back, thoroughly shaken, they would experience a very powerful curse bestowed upon them by the angry whale. Famine, disease, death, misfortune, and poverty would plague the townspeople for years after.

geikai yoha / Matsudaira Naritami

藝海餘波 第十六集　松平斉民　1800～1860年代

化物蝋燭　絵師不明　年代不詳

"此圖のごとくろうそくのとぼしかけてしよくへたてしやうじの内へおき外にて御覧なされ候えバそのすがたしぜんとしやうじ一めんにあらわれ一トしほの御なぐさミと？成候？幾久しく御評判奉願候　本郷二丁目 古賀屋勝五郎"

百物語化物蠟燭　太雅堂 製　年代不詳

"百物語化物蠟燭　此御慰ハ眼前にいろ／＼の化物をいだし人ゝの目をおどろかす事誠に一興なるべし　口傳書内ニあり　太雅堂製"

化物蠟燭の口傳書？　太雅堂 製　年代不詳

Kappa (river imp)

Jorōgumo (lit. “whore spider”)

Kubire-oni (strangler demon)

Rokurokubi (long-necked woman)

Onmoraki (bird demon)

Nekomata (cat monster)

Tengu (bird-like demon)

Tenjō-sagari (ceiling dweller)

Enma Dai-Ō (King of Hell)

Kyūbi no kitsune (nine-tailed fox)

Baku (dream-eating chimera)

Yūrei (ghost)

Yamasei (mountain sprite)

Rashōmon no oni (ogre of Rashōmon Gate)

Waira (mountain-dwelling chimera)