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Umibōzu (海坊主, "sea priest") is a giant, black, human-like being and is the figure of a yōkai from Japanese folklore. Other names include Umihōshi (海法師, "sea priest") or Uminyūdō (海入道, "sea priest"). Little is known of the origin of umibōzu but it is a mythical sea-spirit creature and as such has multiple sightings ...
Sea monsters are beings from folklore believed to dwell in the sea and are often imagined to be of immense size. Marine monsters can take many forms, including sea dragons, sea serpents, or tentacled beasts.
Devil's Sea. A map of the Izu Islands, the centre of the Devil's Sea legend. The Devil's Sea ( Japanese: 魔 の 海, Hepburn: Ma no Umi), also known as the Devil's triangle, the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa Triangle and the Pacific Bermuda Triangle, is a region of the Pacific, south of Tokyo. The Devil's Sea is sometimes considered a ...
Inugami Gyōbu. The name of a bake-danuki from Matsuyama in Iyo Province. Isonade. A giant shark-like sea monster with a barb-covered tail, sighted off the coast of Western Japan. Issie. A lake creature similar to the Loch Ness Monster, found in Lake Ikeda on Kyūshū. Itsumade.
Isonade. The isonade as depicted in Takehara Shunsen's Ehon Hyaku Monogatari [1] The Isonade (磯撫で, "beach stroker") is an enormous, shark -like sea monster said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan. [2]
Wani (dragon) An illustration of Princess Toyotama, the daughter of the dragon king of the seas, who transformed herself into a wani to give birth to her son (1836). Wani ( 鰐) was a dragon or sea monster in Japanese mythology. Since it is written using the kanji 鰐 (from Chinese e 鰐 or 鱷 "crocodile; alligator") wani is translated as ...
Shachihoko. Shachihoko on the roof of Nagoya Castle. A Shachihoko (鯱・鯱鉾) – or simply Shachi (鯱) – is a sea monster in Japanese folklore with the head of a dragon and the body of a carp [1] covered entirely in black or grey scales. [2] According to the tale, Shachihoko lives in the cold northern ocean. Its broad fin and tails ...
INTERVIEW: Louis Chilton speaks to award-winning filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda about his powerful new film ‘Monster’, which follows two young schoolboys who find themselves drawn to each other