In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore, we journey to the Shima Peninsula of Mie Prefecture, where legend tells of the Tomokazuki. When shell divers descended into the ocean ...

Yokai" who gives serious thought to these folklore creatures. He is Masanobu Kagawa, the chief curator at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History, and the first Japanese to get his doctorate in ...

Japan-based illustrator Matthew Meyer has drawn over 500 varieties of yokai―supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore. We ask him about his fascination with the phenomenon of yokai.