Hone-onna
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hone-onna-195-15314962
title:
Hone-onna
text:
Hone-onna is a yōkai depicted in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki (1779) by Toriyama Sekien. As its name implies, it depicts this yōkai as a woman in the form of bones. In Sekien's explanatory text in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki states that there is a story called Otogi Bōko (御伽ばうこ) in which an aged female skeleton would carry a chōchin (lantern) decorated with botan flowers on it and visit the house of a man she loved back when she was still alive, and then cavort with that man. In other words, th
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description:
Yōkai
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hone-onna
date created:
date modified:
2023-03-08T14:14:02Z
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