The Bakeneko of the Sasakibara Family (猫) from the Buson Yōkai Emaki by Yosa Buson. It depicts a cat in Nagoya that would wear a napkin on its head and dance. Unlike nekomata which have two tails, this cat has only one tail.[1]
The bakeneko (化け猫, "changed cat") is a type of Japanese yōkai, or supernatural entity; more specifically, it is a kaibyō, or supernatural cat.[2] It is often confused with the nekomata, another cat-like yōkai.[3] The distinction between them is often ambiguous, but the largest difference is that the nekomata has two tails, while the bakeneko has only one.
There are legends of bakeneko in various parts of Japan, but the tale of the Nabeshima Bakeneko Disturbance in Saga Prefecture is especially famous.
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The bakeneko (化け猫, "changed cat") is a type of Japanese yōkai, or supernatural entity; more specifically, it is a kaibyō, or supernatural cat. It is often...
grown old and transformed into yōkai. Nekomata are often confused with bakeneko. Nekomata appear in stories even earlier than in Japan. In the Sui dynasty...
exhibit in the Ghibli Museum. Catbus is believed to be based on the Japanese bakeneko (化け猫, “changed cat”), an ancient urban legend where cats that grow old...
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(見世物) in which a cat/woman hybrid was displayed. Stories of shape-shifting bakeneko prostitutes were popular during the Edo period. The popularity of the nekomusume...
such as naming of the main heroine. In the story, Himari is shown to be a bakeneko or demon cat, a type of Japanese spirit known as a yōkai. Reception of...
is among the most commonly known, but other such creatures include the bakeneko, the mujina, and the tanuki. Korean mythology also contains a fox with...
"girl". Nekomusume can refer to: A specific transformation of the folkloric Bakeneko Catgirls, female anime characters or cosplayers with nekomimi (cat ears)...
man-eating weretigers. Also, in Japanese folklore there are creatures called bakeneko that are similar to kitsune (fox spirits) and bake-danuki (Japanese raccoon...
by cursing whalers and those who eat whale meat with plagues and fire. Bakeneko A shapeshifting cat spirit, different from the nekomata in that it doesn't...
buildings of Washington, D.C. Kaibyō (Japanese) – various forms of cat Yōkai Bakeneko (Japanese) – two tailed cat yōkai Kasha (Japanese) – corpse stealing yōkai...
Brooklyn Museum, and the Van Gogh Museum. List of Utagawa school members Bakeneko Ōkubo, Junichi (1994), "Utagawa Kuniyoshi", Asashi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu...
the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2020-12-17. Planty, Blake. "From Bakeneko to Bakemonogatari: The Secret History of Catgirls". Crunchyroll. Retrieved...
of ghost cats and similar creatures were part of the sub-genre known as bakeneko mono, or monster-cat tales starting with The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond (1960)...
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi. More specifically, it belongs to the kaibyō eiga or bakeneko mono subgenre of horror films, in which the spirit of a vengeful woman...
title song in the BBC children's series. Jibanyan Yo-kai Watch The Cat Bakeneko ghost Jiji Kiki's Delivery Service Kiki's black cat. Josehpine Nyan Koi...
people all over the city are being attacked by a mysterious cat-girl (化け猫, bakeneko), who he realizes must be Tsubasa. When classes resume and Tsubasa never...
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