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The following is a list of yōkai, obake, yūrei and other legendary creatures which are notable in Japanese folklore, mythology, literature and art.

A

 * Abura-akago - an infant ghost who licks the oil out of andon lamps
 * Abura-bō - a spook fire from Shiga Prefecture, in which the shape of a monk can often be seen
 * Abura-sumashi - a spirit who lives on a mountain pass in Kumamoto Prefecture
 * Akamataa - a snake spirit from Okinawa
 * Akaname - the spirit who licks the bathroom
 * Akashita - a creature that looms in a black cloud over a floodgate
 * Akateko - a red hand dangling out of a tree
 * Akki - another name for a wicked oni
 * Akkorokamui - an Ainu monster resembling a fish or octopus
 * Akuma - an evil spirit
 * Akurojin-no-hi - a ghostly fire from Mie Prefecture
 * Amaburakosagi - ritual disciplinary demon from Shikoku
 * Amamehagi - ritual disciplinary demon from Hokuriku
 * Amanojaku - a small demon which instigates people into wickedness
 * Amanozako - a monstrous goddess mentioned in the Kujiki
 * Amazake-babaa - an old woman who asks for sweet sake and brings disease
 * Amefurikozō - a little boy spirit who plays in the rain
 * Amemasu - an Ainu creature resembling a fish or whale
 * Ameonna - a female rain spirit
 * Amikiri - the net-cutting spirit
 * Amorōnagu - a tennyo from the island of Amami Ōshima
 * Anmo - ritual disciplinayr demon from Iwate Prefecture
 * Aoandon - the spirit of the blue paper lantern
 * Aobōzu - the blue monk who kidnaps children
 * Aonyōbō - a female ghost who lurks in an abandoned imperial palace
 * Aosaginohi - a luminescent heron
 * Asobibi - a spook fire from Kōchi Prefecture
 * Arikura-no-baba - an old woman with magical powers
 * Ashiaraiyashiki(足洗邸) - the story of a huge demon which demands that its leg be washed
 * Ashimagari - a spook which entangles the legs of travelers
 * Ashinagatenaga - a pair of characters, one with long legs and the other with long arms
 * Ato-oi-kozō - an invisible spirit that follows people
 * Ayakashi - another name for the ikuchi
 * Ayakashi-no-ayashibi - a spook fire from Ishikawa Prefecture
 * Azukiarai - a spirit which makes the sound of azuki beans being washed
 * Azukibabaa - azukiarai's more vicious cousin, a bean-grinding hag who devours people
 * Azukitogi - another name for azukiarai

B

 * Betobeto-san - an invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
 * Bake-kujira - a ghost whale
 * Bakeneko - a cat with magical powers
 * Bakezōri - a sandal spirit
 * Baku - an auspicious beast who can devour nightmares
 * Basan - a large fire-breathing chicken monster
 * Binbōgami - the spirit of poverty
 * Biwa-bokuboku - the spirit of a biwa lute
 * Bunbuku Chagama - a famous story about a tanuki in the form of a teakettle
 * Buruburu - a spirit which causes the shivers
 * Byakko - the white tiger of the west

C

 * Chōchinobake - a haunted paper lantern

D

 * Daidarabocchi - a giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
 * Daitengu - the most powerful tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
 * Datsue-ba - an old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
 * Dodomeki - the ghost of a pickpocket, her arms covered in eyes
 * Dorotabō - the ghost of an old man whose rice fields were neglected and sold

E

 * Enenra - a monster made of smoke
 * Enkō - the kappa of Shikoku and western Honshu
 * Eritate-goromo - the tengu Sōjōbō's enchanted clothes

F

 * Fūjin - the god of wind
 * Funayūrei - ghosts of people dead at sea
 * Futakuchi-onna - the two-mouthed woman

G

 * Gagoze - a demon who attacked young priests at Gangō-ji temple
 * Gaki - the hungry ghosts of Buddhism
 * Gangi-kozō - a fish-eating water-monster
 * Garappa - a kind of kappa from Kyushu
 * Gashadokuro - a giant skeleton, the spirit of the unburied dead
 * Genbu - the black tortoise of the north
 * Goryō - vengeful spirits of the dead
 * Guhin - another name for the tengu
 * Gyūki - another name for the ushi-oni, the ox demon

H

 * Hakutaku - the wise Bai Ze beast of China, who reported on the attributes of demons
 * Hakuzōsu - a fox who disguised himself as a trapper's uncle
 * Hannya - a noh mask representing a jealous female demon
 * Harionago - a female monster with deadly barbed hair
 * Hayatarō - the dog that killed the sarugami
 * Heikegani - crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
 * Hibagon - the Japanese Bigfoot
 * Hiderigami - the god of drought
 * Hihi - a baboon monster
 * Hitodama - a fireball-ghost that appears when someone dies
 * Hitotsume-kozō - a one-eyed boy
 * Hoji - the wicked spirit of Tamamo-no-Mae
 * Hōkō - a dog-like tree spirit from China
 * Hone-onna - a skeleton woman
 * Hō-ō - the mythical Fenghuang bird of China
 * Hotoke - a deceased person
 * Hyakki Yakō - the demons' night parade
 * Hyakume - a creature with a hundred eyes
 * Hyōsube - a kind of hair-covered kappa
 * Hyōtan-kozō - a gourd spirit

I

 * Ibaraki-dōji - the oni of the Rashomon gate, Shuten-dōji's accomplice
 * Ichimoku-nyūdō - a one-eyed kappa from Sado Island
 * Ikazuchi-no-Kami - a thunder god
 * Ikiryō - a living ghost
 * Ikuchi - a sea-serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil
 * Inugami - a dog-spirit created, worshipped and employed by a family via sorcery
 * Ippon-datara - a one-legged spirit of the mountains
 * Isonade - a fish-like sea monster with a barb-covered tail
 * Itsumaden - a monstrous bird that appeared over the capital in the Taiheiki
 * Ittan-momen - a cloth-like monster which attempts to smother people by wrapping itself around their faces
 * Iwana-bōzu - a char which appeared as a Buddhist monk

J

 * Jakotsu-babaa - an old woman who guards a snake mound
 * Jatai - an obi which has transformed into a snake
 * Jibakurei 地縛霊, 自縛霊 - a ghost that is bound to a certain place
 * Jikininki - ghosts that eat human corpses
 * Jinmenju - a tree with human-faced flowers
 * Jinmenken - a human-faced dog appearing in recent urban legends
 * Jishin-namazu - the giant catfish that causes earthquakes
 * Jorōgumo - a spider woman
 * Jubokko - a vampire tree

K

 * Kage-onna - the shadow of a woman cast on the paper doors of a haunted house
 * Kahaku 河伯 - another name for a kappa
 * Kamaitachi - the slashing sickle-weasel that haunts the mountains
 * Kamikiri - the hair-cutting spirit
 * Kameosa - a bottle that never runs dry
 * Kanbari-nyūdō - a bathroom spirit
 * Kanedama - the spirit of money
 * Kappa - a famous water monster with a water-filled head and a love of cucumbers
 * Karasu-tengu - a tengu with a bird's bill
 * Kasa-obake - a paper umbrella monster
 * Kasha - a cat-like demon which descends from the sky and carries away corpses
 * Kashanbo - kappa who climb into the mountains for the winter
 * Katawa-guruma - a woman riding on a flaming wheel
 * Katsura-otoko - a handsome man from the moon
 * Kawa-akago - an infant monster that lurks near rivers and drowns people
 * Kawa-uso - a supernatural river otter
 * Kawa-zaru - a smelly, cowardly kappa-like creature
 * Kerakera-onna - a giant cackling woman who appears in the sky
 * Kesaran-pasaran - a mysterious white fluffy creature
 * Keukegen - a creature made of hair
 * Kijimunaa - a tree sprite from Okinawa
 * Kijo - a witch or ogress
 * Kirin - the Qilin of China, part dragon and part hoofed mammal, sometimes called the "Chinese unicorn"
 * Kitsune - a supernatural fox
 * Kitsune-Tsuki - fox possession
 * Kiyohime - a woman who transformed into a serpent-demon out of the rage of unrequited love
 * Kodama - a spirit that lives in a tree
 * Kokakuchō - the ubume bird
 * Koma-inu - another name for the shishi, the pair of lion-dogs that guard the entrances of temples
 * Konaki-Jijii - an infant spirit that cries until it is picked up, then increases its weight and crushes its victim
 * Konoha-tengu - a bird-like tengu
 * Koropokkuru - a little person from Ainu folklore
 * Kosode-no-te - a short-sleeved kimono with its own hands
 * Kuchisake-onna - the slit-mouthed woman
 * Kuda-gitsune - a small fox-like animal used in sorcery
 * Kudan - a human-faced calf which predicts a calamity and then dies
 * Kurabokko - the guardian spirit of a warehouse
 * Kurage-no-hinotama - a jellyfish which floats through the air as a fireball
 * Kyōkotsu - the ghost of a corpse discarded in a well
 * Kyūbi-no-kitsune - a fox with nine tails

M

 * Maikubi - the quarreling heads of three dead miscreants
 * Makura-gaeshi - the pillow-moving spirit
 * Mekurabe - the multiplying skulls that menaced Taira no Kiyomori in his courtyard
 * Miage-nyūdō - a spirit which grows as fast as you can look up at it
 * Mikoshi-nyūdō - another name for miage-nyūdō
 * Mizuchi - a dangerous water-dragon
 * Mokumokuren - a swarm of eyes that appear on a paper sliding door in an old building
 * Momonjii - an old-man who is waiting for you at every fork in the road
 * Morinji-no-kama - another name for Bunbuku Chagama, the tanuki teakettle
 * Mōryō - a long-eared, corpse-eating spirit
 * Mujina - a shapeshifting badger
 * Myobu - a title sometimes given to a fox

N

 * Namahage - ritual disciplinary demon from the Oga Peninsula
 * Nando-baba - an old-woman spirit who hides under the floor in abandoned storerooms
 * Narikama - a kettle spirit whose ringing sound is a good omen
 * Nebutori - a spook-disease which causes a woman to grow immensely fat and lethargic
 * Nekomata - a bakeneko with a split tail
 * Nekomusume - a cat in the form of a girl
 * Nikusui - a monster which appears as a young woman and sucks all of the flesh off of its victim's body
 * Ningyo - a fish person or "mermaid"
 * Nobusuma - a supernatural wall, or a monstrous flying squirrel
 * Noppera-bō - a faceless ghost
 * Nozuchi - Another name for the tsuchinoko serpent
 * Nue - a monkey-headed, tiger-bodied, snake-tailed monster which plagued the emperor with nightmares in the Heike Monogatari
 * Nukekubi - a vicious human-like monster whose head detaches from its body, often confused with the rokurokubi
 * Nuppefuhofu - an animated lump of decaying human flesh
 * Nure-onna - a female monster who appears on the beach
 * Nuribotoke - an animated corpse with blackened flesh and dangling eyeballs
 * Nurikabe - a ghostly wall that traps a traveler at night
 * Nurarihyon - a strange character who sneaks into houses on busy evenings, said to be the supreme commander of the yōkai
 * Nyūbachibō - a mortar spirit

O

 * Oboro-guruma - a ghostly oxcart with the face of its driver
 * Ohaguro-bettari - a female spook lacking all facial features save for a large, black-toothed smile
 * Oiwa - the ghost of a woman with a distorted face who was murdered by her husband
 * Okiku - the plate-counting ghost of a servant girl
 * Ōkamuro - a giant face which appears at the door
 * Ōkubi - the face of a huge woman which appears in the sky
 * Okuri-inu - a dog or wolf that follows travelers at night
 * Ōmukade - a giant centipede
 * Oni - the classic Japanese demon, an ogre-like creature which often has horns
 * Onibi - a spook fire
 * Onikuma - a monster bear
 * Onmoraki - a bird-demon created from the spirits of freshly-dead corpses
 * Onryō - a vengeful ghost
 * Otoroshi - a hairy creature that perches on the gates to shrines and temples

R

 * Raijin - the god of thunder
 * Raijū - a beast which falls to earth in a lightning bolt
 * Rokurokubi - a person, usually female, whose neck can stretch indefinitely
 * Ryū - the Japanese dragon

S

 * Sakabashira - a haunted pillar, installed upside-down
 * Sagari - a horse's head that dangles from trees on Kyushu
 * Samebito - a shark-man from the undersea Dragon Palace
 * Sarugami - a wicked monkey spirit which was defeated by a dog
 * Satori - an ape-like creature that can read minds
 * Sazae-oni - a turban snail which turns into a woman
 * Seiryū - the azure dragon of the east
 * Seko - a kind of kappa, which can be heard making merry at night
 * Senpoku-Kanpoku - a human-faced frog which guides the souls of the newly deceased to the graveyard
 * Sesshō-seki - the poisonous "killing stones" which Tamamo-no-Mae transformed into
 * Setotaishō - a warrior composed of discarded earthenware
 * Shachihoko - a tiger-headed fish whose image is often used in architecture
 * Shibaten - a kind of kappa from Shikoku.
 * Shikigami - a spirit summoned to do the bidding of an Onmyōji
 * Shiki-ōji - another name for a shikigami
 * Shiro-bōzu - a white, faceless spirit
 * Shin 蜃 - a giant clam which creates mirages
 * Shinigami - the "god of death", the Japanese name for the Western Grim Reaper
 * Shiro-uneri - an old, rotten dishcloth appearing in the form of a dragon
 * Shiryō - the spirit of a dead person
 * Shisa - the Okinawan version of the shishi
 * Shishi - the paired lion-dogs that guard the entrances of temples
 * Shōjō - red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol
 * Shōkera - a creature that peers in through skylights
 * Shōki - the fabled demon-queller Zhong Kui
 * Shunoban - a red-faced ghoul that surprises people
 * Shuten-dōji - an infamous princess-kidnapping, bloodthirsty oni
 * Sodehiki-kozō - an invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves
 * Sōjōbō - the famous daitengu of Mount Kurama
 * Sōgenbi - the fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk
 * Soragami - a ritual disciplinary demon in the form of a tengu
 * Soraki-gaeshi - the sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut
 * Sorobanbōzu - a ghost with an abacus
 * Sōtangitsune - a famous fox from Kyoto
 * Sunakake-baba - the sand-throwing hag
 * Sunekosuri - a small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night
 * Suppon-no-yūrei - a ghost with a face like a soft-shelled turtle
 * Suzaku - the vermilion bird of the south

T

 * Taimatsumaru - a tengu surrounded in demon fire
 * Taka-onna - a female spirit which can stretch itself to peer into the second story of a building
 * Tamamo-no-Mae - a wicked nine-tailed fox who appeared as a courtesan
 * Tankororin - an unharvested persimmon which becomes a monster
 * Tanuki - a shapeshifting raccoon dog
 * Tatami-tataki - a poltergeist that hits the tatami mats at night
 * Tengu - the infamous bird-man demon of the mountains
 * Tenjōname - the ceiling-licking spirit
 * Tennin - a heavenly being
 * Te-no-me - the ghost of a blind man, with his eyes on his hands
 * Tesso - the ghost of the priest Raigō, who transformed into a swarm of rats
 * Tōfu-kozō - a spirit child carrying a block of tofu
 * Toire-no-Hanakosan - a ghost who lurks in grade school restroom stalls
 * Tōtetsu - the Taotie monster of China
 * Tsurara-onna - an icicle woman
 * Tsuchigumo - a giant spider which was defeated by Minamoto no Raikō
 * Tsuchikorobi - a tumbling monster which rolls over travelers
 * Tsuchinoko - a legendary serpentine monster, now a cryptid resembling a fat snake
 * Tsukumogami - inanimate objects that come to life after a hundred years
 * Tsurube-otoshi - a monster that drops out of the tops of trees

U

 * Ubume - the spirit of a woman who died in childbirth
 * Uma-no-ashi - a horse's leg which dangles from a tree and kicks passerbies
 * Umibōzu - a giant monster appearing on the surface of the sea
 * Umi-nyōbō - a female sea monster who steals fish
 * Ungaikyō - a mirror monster which can display assorted wonders in its surface
 * Ushi-Oni - a name given to an assortment of ox-headed monsters
 * Uwan - a spirit named for the sound it shouts when surprising people

Y

 * Yagyō-san - a demon who rides through the night on a headless horse
 * Yakubyō-gami - spirits who bring plagues and other unfortunate events
 * Yadōkai - monks who have turned to mischief
 * Yama-biko - a creature that creates echos
 * Yama-bito - the wild people who live in the mountains
 * Yama-chichi - a mountain spirit resembling a monkey
 * Yama-inu - the fearsome mountain dog
 * Yama-otoko - the giant mountain man
 * Yama-oroshi - a radish-grater spirit, a pun on a word for "mountain storm"
 * Yamata-no-Orochi - the eight-headed serpent slain by the god Susanoo
 * Yama-uba - the mountain hag
 * Yama-waro - a hairy, one-eyed spirit, sometimes considered a kappa who has gone into the mountains for the winter.
 * Yanari - poltergeists which cause strange noises
 * Yatagarasu - the three-legged crow of Amaterasu
 * Yato-no-kami - deadly snake-gods which infested a field
 * Yomotsu-shikome - the hags of the underworld
 * Yōsei - the Japanese word for "fairy"
 * Yosuzume - a mysterious bird that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near
 * Yukinko - a child-like snow-spirit
 * Yuki-onna - the snow woman

Z

 * Zashiki-warashi - a protective child-like house spirit.
 * Zennyo Ryūō - a rain-making dragon
 * Zunbera-bō - another name for the noppera-bō