π Legends of Japan
οΌ File legend8 legends and folk tales from Japan, mapped to where they were born and retold one by one.
Yotsuya Kaidan is one of Japan's classic ghost stories, first staged as kabuki theater in 1825 and set, according to the tale, in the Yotsuya distr...
One of modern Japan's most widespread school ghost stories concerns Hanako-san, said to haunt the third stall of the girls' bathroom on the third f...
Two levels below the keep of Himeji Castle there is an old well shown to visitors as Okiku's Well, where a servant accused of losing one of ten hei...
The Nihon Shoki, completed in 720, gives the story four sentences: in the seventh month of Emperor YΕ«ryaku's twenty-second year, a man of Tsutsukaw...
Hasshaku-sama is the rare legend that can be timed to the second. On Tuesday 26 August 2008, between 09:45:56 and 09:54:54 Japan time, a poster ide...
A bamboo cutter with a name β Sanuki no Miyatsukomaro β splits a shining stalk and finds a girl three sun tall, about nine centimetres, so small sh...
Every Japanese child knows Momotaro: the boy who came out of a peach, hired a dog, a monkey and a pheasant with millet dumplings and sailed to the ...
Everyone tells the same Yuki-onna story, and it has an author. Lafcadio Hearn published it in Kwaidan in 1904: two woodcutters trapped by a blizzar...