Hyakki Yagyo

Time

approx. 3 hrs

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3 edited JPEG photos

Deep in the mountains, many lights strung out in a line are said to be a fox wedding procession. They swell into a long column, then vanish all at once; follow to learn their nature and you lose them.

A hundred lights across the hills — a wedding procession. The woman wrapped in white: is she human, or fox…

Time

approx. 3 hrs

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3 edited JPEG photos

Long ago the capital had gates on all four sides; beyond them lay the world of demons, within, the world of people. One was Rajomon, to the south. Hearing an oni dwelt there, a warrior went to slay it, but the oni drew near disguised as a person and attacked. He cut off its arm and fled by a hair, and the oni said: “Remember this — within seven days I will come to take that arm back.”

That figure — a woman, or an old crone…? Be not deceived. By the seventh night it comes to reclaim its arm.

Time

approx. 3 hrs

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3 edited JPEG photos

A man grieving his late wife met a beautiful woman and a girl bearing a peony lantern. She came each night; the woman he pledged himself to was, in truth, a set of white bones. To stay was ten days’ life. He fled in terror, but after fifty days longing drew him back to her coffin, where the peony lantern stood. Rejoicing, the two went deep beyond the gate of Manju-ji temple…

…the next day the man was found in the grave, turned to the same white bones beside her.

Time

approx. 3 hrs

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3 edited JPEG photos

On nights from winter into spring, people called the many fires seen in fields and hills “fox-fire.” Some say foxes strike their tails to make the flames; others, that a fox with a bone in its mouth breathes fire.

The dimly glowing light — a fire to guide me, or one to lead me astray?

Time

approx. 3 hrs

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3 edited JPEG photos

A yokai who brings the rain, in the form of a young woman. A young mother who lost her newborn to a rainy-day spiriting-away turned, in her grief, into a yokai — and may come to carry off crying children. Is that a small child crying somewhere? Or is it I who weep?

Is the rain-woman a nuisance who summons the rain… or a goddess of rain who ends the drought…

Time

approx. 3 hrs

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3 edited JPEG photos

• The special tights come only in Japanese sizes M–L. If they do not fit, we style you with a substitute or bare feet.

At dusk a white cloth about one tan long flutters softly across the sky. Soundlessly it steals close, wraps a person’s face or neck, and takes their breath. Grasp at it and it slips away; cut at it and there is no resistance. In the nights of Kyushu, it appears even now.

Is that drying bleached cloth… or a cloth-spirit adrift in the night…

Time

approx. 3 hrs

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3 edited JPEG photos

A spider that lived four hundred years, transformed into a human woman. Whether she drinks human blood to survive from a sad past with a man she met while in a woman’s guise, or because the memory of human cruelty will not fade, the bitterness of betrayal never leaves — and before you know it, you too may be caught in her thread.

Is the beautiful woman a deception to avenge her regret? Waste not even an inch of life… see, she may be beside you too…

Time

approx. 3 hrs

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3 edited JPEG photos

Chief of the oni, said to dwell on Mt. Oe and to carry off and devour people from the capital. Once a beautiful youth, he is said to have turned into an oni at the end of an unfulfilled love. Plied with sake by Minamoto no Yorimitsu and his men, he was slain as he lay drunk.

Was it birth that made him an oni, or the cruelty of people… At the end of a drunken doze, the head is struck off.

Time

approx. 3 hrs

Delivery

3 edited JPEG photos

• This plan is possible for both men and women. As the costume is a men’s XL size, sleeves and the like tend to be loose for guests under 155 cm.
• There is no washbasin available for men, so makeup can only be wiped off. Please understand in advance.

Said to be the oni closest to Shuten-doji, famed with him on Mt. Oe. Though his arm was cut off at Rajomon, he later called disguised as an aunt and, seizing his chance, took his own arm back.

Is the old woman who called truly your aunt…? When that hand reaches out, the true form appears.

Time

approx. 4 hrs

Delivery

5 edited JPEG photos

• 50 shots include solo shots (10+ each) and shots of the two of you together (up to 30).
• As this is a single plan, the all-data option covers both guests. Discounts apply as one plan. Points are awarded one each.
• Last reception 15:00

Lit by flames, two demons bring their horns together and exchange cups. Beings apart from human reason fill their cups and pledge a bond — a night bewitching and voluptuous.

Is it sake that fills the cup, or…? What reflects at its bottom may be your own face.

Time

approx. 3 hrs

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3 edited JPEG photos

A beautiful woman in white robes, with white skin, appears suddenly before a man. In her wish that he never tell of their meeting, is something hidden? They pass happy days together, but by chance he speaks of her — and she vanishes without a trace. Or perhaps she was a woman who never existed at all.

Never, ever tell anyone that you met me…

Time

approx. 3 hrs

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3 edited JPEG photos

A legendary being with a face beaked like a crow, said to fly at will. The Karasu-tengu of Mt. Kurama is said to have taught swordsmanship to the young Ushiwaka-maru; gifted with supernatural power, it is said to have once descended even to the capital and raged. Fears of nature and of mountain bandits were laid upon the tengu; it is called both yokai and god.

Passed down in many tellings, with no true record. What are they, truly… yokai… or god…

Time

approx. 3 hrs

Delivery

3 edited JPEG photos

The bones of those who died in vain of famine and war gather together and appear at midnight as a giant skeleton — the Gashadokuro. The Bone Princess is a corpse-princess who, clad in countless bones, still strives to be beautiful.

The clatter of bones — is it a dirge… or the sound of hunting the next prey…

Time

approx. 3 hrs

Delivery

3 edited JPEG photos

• This plan is possible for both men and women. As the costume is a men’s XL size, sleeves and the like tend to be loose for guests under 155 cm.
• There is no washbasin available for men, so makeup can only be wiped off. Please understand in advance.

The Gashadokuro, a giant skeleton formed of the bones of the aggrieved. The Wraith-Bones is its wandering figure — faint and half-transparent, still holding a lingering attachment to this world.

To wander still even as bones — is it in search of something left unfulfilled…

Time

approx. 4 hrs

Delivery

5 edited JPEG photos

• 50 shots include solo shots (10+ each) and shots of the two of you together (up to 30).
• As this is a single plan, the all-data option covers both guests. Discounts apply as one plan. Points are awarded one each.
• Last reception 15:00

Two Gashadokuro standing side by side in the dark night. Bones that share the same regret draw their corpses together in the darkness.

Beyond where the two corpses look up — is there a moon… or only the dark night going on…