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Ama-no-zako

天逆毎 (あまのざこ)

Heavenly Beast Princess

From the now defunct site Obakemono Project:

It is said that once the storm god Susano-o-No-Mikoto let his raging spirit build up inside him until, like a grotesque Athena, this princess deity burst forth. She had a beastly head with long ears, nose, and fangs, the latter of which were so strong they could easily chew through steel blades, and she could fly for thousands of miles at a go. This ferocious female spirit is considered the ancestor of such creatures as Ama-no-jaku and the tengu.

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Check out these links for more on Ama-no-zako

http://yokai.wikia.com/wiki/Amanozako

Ao-nyōbō

青女房 (あおにょうぼう)

Blue Wife

From the now defunct website Obakemono Project:

In the ruins of an old imperial palace, one might encounter this female ghoul, who seems to be the ghost of an old-fashioned court lady with blackened teeth and shaved eyebrows. She is rumored to devour young men who visit her.

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Ashi-magari

足曲がり (あしまがり)

Leg Turner

From the now defunct website Obakemono Project:

On the island of Shikoku, strange occurances are often attributed to the wiles of the raccoon dog, and this nocturnal phenomenon from Kagawa prefecture is no exception. Like the sune-kosuri, the ashi-magari is felt coiling around the legs of people walking at night, eventually becoming a hindrance and making it difficult or impossible to move. Those who bend down to touch it feel something soft like raw cotton, and if they squeeze it tightly, the ashi-magari is said to feel something like the tail of an animal.

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Aka-shita

赤舌 (あかした)

Red Tongue

From the now defunct website Obakemono Project:

This hairy beast, whose name means "red tongue", appears leering out of a black cloud over a floodgate in the third volume of Sekien Toriyama's Gazu Hyakki Yakō. It appears to have been based on the akakuchi.

(赤口, red mouth), a monster from a Kano school picture scroll. This creature's name may have been taken from one of the six auspicious labels of the Japanese calendar, shakkō (also 赤口, red mouth), which indicates a day of terrible luck and atrocity. Sekien's creature, with its lolling tongue, may have itself been based on the Shakuzetsu-jin (赤舌神, red-tongue deity) of Onmyōdō, a name that indicates a god who guards the Western gate of Jupiter, or else one of the Indian Rakshasha.

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Read more about the Aka Shita at Yokai.com and Yokai.wikia.com

Rokuro-kubi

ろくろ首 (ろくろくび)

Pulley Neck

From the now defunct website Obakemono Project:

Rokuro-kubi are yōkai that used to be ordinary human beings, but somehow they have come to suffer from a ghostly affliction that allows their heads to float away from their bodies, their necks stretching in between like a fleshy garden hose, sometimes indefinitely. Usually they are women.


The rokuro-kubi's condition is sometimes brought about by a curse, and sometimes as a supernatural 
manifestation of the person's desires. The neck-stretching almost always happens at night, often while the 
rokuro-kubi sleeps, and the freed head may wander through the house perpetrating such obake-esque
mischief as sucking the life energy out of people and animals, and licking up the oil of andon lamps.
Some of them simply wind up using lintels high above doors and windows as their pillows, and scaring 
the living daylights out of anyone who happens to peek in on them.


Rokuro-kubi women are often unlucky in love, frightening their new husbands away when the men discover
their wives’ unnerving nocturnal abilities.