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Suppon on Onryo – The Vengeful Ghosts of the Turtles
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara and Japanese Wikipedia You can still see turtle restaurants in Japan today offering a full-course suppon meal, including a glass of blood served...
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Nebutori – The Sleeping Fatty
Translated and adapted from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Ehon Hyakumonogatari, and Japanese Wikipedia A tale as old as time; in a drunken night of revelry, you climb in bed with a beautiful girl but wake...
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When Food Attacks – 6 Food Monsters From Japan
Japan’s native Yokai monsters can be almost anything—haunted trees, magical cats, transformed rats, or vengeful ghosts of slaughtered warriors. Or they can be food. Maybe animals who are sick of being...
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Oshiroi Baba – The Face Powder Hag
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Konjyaku Hyakki Shui, and Japanese Wikipedia Weather-beaten, sake-bearing snow lady or servant to the Goddess of Cosmetics? It all depends on who...
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Tsurara Onna – The Icicle Woman
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Kaii Yokai Densho Database, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources Is Japan’s Icicle Woman naughty or nice? Loving or lethal? If the stories are to...
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Yuki Warashi / Yukinbo – The Snow Babies
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources Snow and ice have a certain magic to them. You can craft them into whatever shape you want, from snow men to...
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Yuki Onna – The Snow Woman
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Kaii Yokai Densho Database, Kwaidan, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources The Yuki Onna is one of Japan’s most well-known and yet unknown yokai....
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Yuki Jiji – The Old Man of the Snow
Translated and Sourced from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujyara, Kaii Yokai Densho Database, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources In the village of Hishiyama in Nigata prefecture, there is at least one...
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7 Types of Yokai – Japan’s Snow Monsters
In the frozen north of the Japan, the snow piles deep and high and brings monsters. Whether riding on the avalanche, or coming in the guise of a beautiful young woman or a little lost boy, or hoping...
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Mizuki Shigeru and American Horror Comics
When you think of influences on Japanese comic book legend Mizuki Shigeru, names like Basil Wolverton, Bob Powell, and Warren Kremmer don’t usually spring to mind. After all, those artists drew for...
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Happy 92nd Birthday Shigeru Mizuki!!!
Shigeru Mizuki is 92 years old today. (A day early, I know. But March 8th falls a day earlier in Japan.) On his last birthday, he was already hailed as the world’s oldest working comic book artist. He...
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Jakotsu Baba – The Old Snake-Bone Woman
Translated from Konjaku Hyakki Shui, Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujara, and Japanese Wikipedia If you are wandering through the woods at night and stumble upon something that looks like a carved stone stamped...
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Shigeru Mizuki’s The Dunwich Horror
Sourced from Japanese Wikipedia and this article It should come as no surprise that Shigeru Mizuki is well versed in world horror and weird fiction. Beneath his beneficent smile and charming penchant...
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Countdown to Showa 1939 – 1944 A History of Japan
Only a few short days until the release of Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan, the second volume of my translation of Shigeru Mizuki’s 4-volume series “Showa: A History of Japan”!! The first volume,...
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Kosodate Yūrei – The Child-Raising Yūrei
Translated and Sources from Mizuki Shigeru’s Mujara, Nihon no Yūrei, Inga Monogatari, and Other Sources To learn much more about Japanese Ghosts, check out my book Yurei: The Japanese Ghost Yūrei...
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Happy 93rd Birthday Mizuki Shigeru!!!
Mizuki Shigeru is 93 years old today! And if you don’t know who that is, you have been reading the wrong website! He is the man responsible for this websites existence, and for most of the world’s...
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Shigeru Mizuki Ends Watashi no Hibi (My Everyday)
Translated from Yahoo! Japan News 93-year old manga artist Shigeru Mizuki—creator of Gegege no Kitaro and numerous other comics—announced the sudden end of his comic Watashi no Hibi (My Everyday). The...
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Neko Musume – Cat Daughter
Translated and Sourced From Ansei Zakki, Gegege no Kitaro DVD Magazine, Japanese Wikipedia, and Other Sources Part Cat / Part Human, the Neko Musume are interesting and unique creatures in Japan’s...
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Otsukare, Sensei—Goodbye to Mizuki Shigeru
There is nothing sad about the death of Mizuki Shigeru. And I say this as someone who shed more than a few tears when I heard the news last night. He lived about as good a life that could possibly be...
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Message from Mizuki Shigeru’s Family
Translated from the official statement: “My father is dead.” I still can’t believe I am saying those words. “I’m going to live to be a 100 … no, maybe 120 or so.” That’s what Mizuki used to always...
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