For locally based yokai, the artist incorporated notable buildings and plants from their home turf for the background art. He also featured the Tojinbo cliffs in Fukui Prefecture, the Kenrokuen ...

Japan-based illustrator Matthew Meyer has drawn over 500 varieties of yokai―supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore. We ask him about his fascination with the phenomenon of yokai.

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore, we follow the cry of the Konakijiji, a Yokai that resembles an old man but with a voice like a weeping infant. It's said to lure ...

Yokai.com is a comprehensive encyclopedia with ... “In the beginning, I was doing all the art myself, but I’m not an animator and it was clear pretty early on that I would need help creating ...