What is the most beautiful yōkai?

Description. Hinoenma are wicked female yōkai which look like beautiful women.
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What's the most famous yōkai?

Tengu. The tengu is one of the best-known types of Japanese yokai, often intertwined with stories of mountain spirits and forest dwellers.
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What are the most powerful yōkai?

One such list is the Three Most Evil Yokai of Japan (japanese: 日本三大悪妖怪, Nihon san dai aku yōkai). These are the three monsters who, according to legend, posed the greatest threats to Japan's existence.
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Japanese Legends: The Three Most Evil Yokai of Japan
  • Shuten dōji, oni. ...
  • Tamamo no Mae, kitsune. ...
  • Emperor Sutoku, tengu.
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What is the most powerful Japanese yōkai?

So it's said, Gashadokuro are indestructible and capable of invisibility too. Apart from a strange ringing in the ears as any approaches, a victim has no way of knowing. Long story short, this bloodthirsty Japanese Yokai easily qualifies as one of the most powerful and deadly on this list.
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What is the biggest yōkai?

Description. Daidarabotchi are colossal humanoids which resemble bald-headed priests. They have big, rolling eyes, long, lolling tongues, and pitch black skin. They share a lot of similarities with other giants, like ōnyūdō and umi bōzu, but they are by far the largest giants found in yōkai folklore.
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Are there any friendly yōkai?

Some yokai are friendly and totally harmless, while others are outright fearsome and malicious — there are some man-eating monsters in the mix, too!
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What are popular yōkai?

Kappa is a famous yokai that every Japanese person knows. The body of this creature is covered in green and it has fins for hands and feet. One distinctive feature of kappa is the plate on its head.
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What animal is kirin?

Girin or kirin (기린) is the Korean form of qilin. It is described as a maned creature with the torso of a deer, an ox tail with the hooves of a horse. The girin were initially depicted as more deer-like, however over time they have transformed into more horse-like.
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Who is the God of yōkai?

Yokai are the demons of Japanese mythology. They were born when the god Izanagi washed himself in a river to purify himself after entering Yomi in search of Izanami. When he removed his clothes, an innumerable amount of beings of all kinds emerged from his body, such as the Kappa, Nekomata, Kitsune, and so on.
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Is kirin a unicorn?

In Korea, the Kirin is described as deer shaped creature with an ox tail and horse hooves. Clearly, a Kirin is not the same thing as a unicorn. In fact, there is a word for unicorn in Korean pronounced ilgaksu which means one horned creature.
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What kind of yōkai is Tora?

Tora is a gigantic orange yokai in the form of a humanoid tiger.
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What kirin look like?

The kirin is a chimerical beast resembling a deer with scales like a dragon's covering its body. It has a tail like an ox's and a flowing mane. Its body and mane are covered in brilliant holy fire. Its face is the picture of utter serenity.
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Are Yokai real in Japan?

Kappa (河童) are one of the well-known yokai in Japan.

Their actual existence has even been believed at some point as mummified remains of creatures discovered that had the morphological characteristics of this mythological monster.
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Are there female tengu?

They were now established as the ghosts of angry, vain, or heretical priests who had fallen on the "tengu-realm" (天狗道, tengudō). They began to possess people, especially women and girls, and speak through their mouths (kitsunetsuki).
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Is Raiden a Raijin?

Raijin, also called Raiden or Raiden-sama, the god of thunder and lightning in Japanese mythology.
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Are Raijin and Fujin enemies?

Raijin and Fujin in Japanese culture. Despite their rivalry for control of the sky, Raijin and Fujin are often represented together in Japanese traditional arts.
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Can ganyu turn into a qilin?

Her personality is also attractive as Ganyu is a hardworking individual whose favorite hobby is taking naps. She is also part Qilin, and an Adeptus, so her design is a bit more unique than some of the other characters around her.
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Can Kirin have wings?

A very common power attributed to kirin is Flight, despite them never being depicted with wings, and sometimes the ability to Walk on Water.
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Is qilin a chimera?

The legendary kirin, or popularly referred to in Chinese as "qilin", is a mythical chimera established in East Asian culture. Chimeras are best described as an extreme hybridization of several species.
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Is Kitsune a yōkai?

Kitsune are believed to possess superior intelligence, long life, and magical powers. They are a type of yōkai. The word kitsune is sometimes translated as 'fox spirit', which is actually a broader folkloric category.
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How do you become a yokai?

It is a common Japanese belief that after a certain amount of time, ordinary objects and animals gain life and personality, becoming a kind of youkai. In some cases even a normal human can become a youkai under the right conditions.
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How are yokai born?

It is said that the vast majority of Yokai are born from the emotions of human, especially the powerful emotions of fear, yearning or hate. But there are other ways for a Yokai to come into being: 1. From the violence of natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, windstorms or volcanic eruptions.
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Is Kaiju yokai?

Furthermore, gigantic, city crushing monsters like Godzilla are called Kaiju (怪獣) and are generally not considered to be Yokai, although they might have been inspired by them. Yokai have a very long tradition in Japan, and folktales of Yokai have been spread and passed on through word of mouth and scriptures for ages.
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What is Sasuke's Kirin?

Kirin is an extremely powerful Lightning Release technique created by Sasuke Uchiha.
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Is qilin a dragon?

In Mythology

Qilins often are represented as a dragon-like creature, most notabily their heat, mane, scales, and tail. They are often shown with fire around their mane and hooves. Their horn resembles Chinese dragons, the most reconizable creature across the world.
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