These Japanese mythical creatures were born from disaster. Many of the country’s most iconic legends come from the Tohoku region, where history is riddled with natural disasters, famine, and ...

Meyer's database of Japanese folklore describes ryugu no tsukai as "large fish with human heads, horns, long hair, and sometimes beards." In a retelling of a legend on the database, the creatures ...

Namazu, the giant catfish from Japanese mythology, is a creature of both chaos and fortune, lurking in deep underground ...

They named two of them after glowing creatures in Japanese folklore, and the other after the former director of Notojima Aquarium who helped find the worms. Skip to main content.

Given their amorphous, ever-changing nature, it’s perhaps no surprise that onis have no single, unifying origin story. Indeed, in her book Japanese Demon Lore, Reider describes four distinct cultures ...