Those who love Japanese horror and mythological story’s will be delighted with today’s news. Apparently the International Research Center for Japanese Studies has scanned in drawings and ink-tings from scrolls and old literature with Yokai depictions, creating an online visual database.
Yokai make for interesting characters and are widely used in manga and anime these days (GeGeGe no Kitaro anyone?). I always wondered what the original depictions looked like , and what horrors must have been imagined by the original artist. Now we can have a first hand look without having to visit archives or museums.
These drawings most have been the cause of a few nightmares don’t you think?
