Comments on: A-Yokai-A-Day: Sansei https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/28/a-yokai-a-day-sansei/ illustrations, folklore, and blog Tue, 23 Sep 2014 05:25:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kay Oss https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/28/a-yokai-a-day-sansei/comment-page-1/#comment-10569 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 05:25:18 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=9196#comment-10569 Its a popular local yokai in Dahau Japan. Okka means “large Ghost” Kozuka is a popuar surname or a “paper knife”. I think they are being playful calling him Big Ghost Kozuka.
Here is the Google Translation:
Dahua (Okka, Kozuka)
Good this monster picture book
It is a child of the monster, but it’s the mystery of all or become any figure when growth.

Not those that molt at the turn of the season, but saw the figure.

]]> By: Matt https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/28/a-yokai-a-day-sansei/comment-page-1/#comment-9840 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:31:45 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=9196#comment-9840 Those pages call him aka or okka. It’s one of many yokai that was illustrated long ago without any explanation, so what it is is pretty much left up to the imagination. According to the blog site you posted, it is a baby yokai, like a larva of some sort, and has yet to shed its skin and morph into some other yokai — however this is probably just made up by the author of the blog. This yokai really has no true origin other than scroll paintings.

]]> By: Michael https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/28/a-yokai-a-day-sansei/comment-page-1/#comment-9837 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:50:57 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=9196#comment-9837 I need a little help identifying a specific yokai. It looks like this: http://blog-imgs-26-origin.fc2.com/y/o/u/youkaiblog/z_otuka.jpg

The only sources I could find were these links:
http://youkaiblog.blog75.fc2.com/blog-entry-156.html
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/YoukaiGazouCard/U426_nichibunken_0054_0001_0004.html

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