Message sent! Check your Phone  In Ghostly Japan (Artwork by
David Hochbaum)  1y ago   'Kaidan Shu - Tales of Mist and Wind'
is a cycle of works realized by David Hochbaum in 2011 and based
upon Japanese ghostly legends and folklore.
http://www.davidhochbaum.com/ A short glossary of the main
Japanese ghosts: OBAKE (00:10) and BAKEMONO are a class
of yōkai, preternatural creatures in Japanese folklore.
Literally, the terms mean a thing that changes, referring to a
state of transformation or shapeshifting. These words are often
translated as ghost, but primarily they refer to living things
or supernatural beings who have taken on a temporary
transformation, and these bakemono are distinct from the spirits
of the dead. However, as a secondary usage, the term obake can
be a synonym for yūrei, the ghost of a deceased human being.
Obake derived from household objects are often
called tsukumogami. A bakemono usually either disguises itself
as a human or appears in a strange or terrifying form such as
a hitotsume-koz