Yokai

A couple of weeks ago I did a post covering my visit to the Japan Supernatural exhibition in Sydney earlier this year. This was an exhibition covering depictions of yokai, or Japanese monsters, ghosts and goblins.

Today I stumbled across this website - Yokai.com - which is a beautiful illustrated database of yokai run by Japanese-based artist and folklorist Matthew Meyer.

The site is a lovely introduction to the yokai, and is chock-full of inspiration for games, miniature and RPG, whether you need giant monsters, or troublesome annoyances.

Here's a few I liked (all images and text are (c) Matthew Meyer) - the caption is a link to the article for each:

Bakekujira

Funayūrei

Isonade

Maneki neko

Tsuchigumo

And there's plenty more where those came from ...