Comments on: A-Yokai-A-Day: Hakutaku | 妖怪シリーズ：白澤

By: Damien

Damien — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:13:06 +0000

I was just wondering if you’d ever come across any historical representations of hakutaku with a fully formed set of three faces or more than the semi standard six horns?
(pretty sure i’ve found a carving of one with fifteen horns – five on the head and ten between the two mid section faces)

By: Five More Prehistoric Beasts that Could Stand In for Mythical Monsters | Into the Wonder

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:37:05 +0000

[…] might provide an interesting template for the Far Eastern creature called a bai ze (in Chinese) or hukutaku (in Japanese). This sacred animal is monstrous in appearance, as large as an ox, with both bovine […]

By: YokoYamaguchi (@YokoChibiyo)

YokoYamaguchi (@YokoChibiyo) — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:26:30 +0000

In some legends or myths in the world, sacred animals often have a lot of eyes to identify truth, but nowadays they hide themselves somewhere, never appear before us. So, to identify truth or to prevent wrongdoings and corruptions from spreading, we need more eyes of more people.

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 06:29:54 +0000

11,520 is an amazing number!
Michael: if you look close, most of the Pokemon (at least for the 1st generation) are inspired by Yokai 😉 Even their Japanese names sometimes are!

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:11:42 +0000

11,520 different kinds of yokai?!

It’s like Pokemon!