Talk:List of legendary creatures from Japan

Itsamu-Na

The only sources I can find for this in Japanese indicate this is a katakanization, then re-romanization of the Mayan founder spirit Itzamna, and therefore not a Japanese mythological creature.--Ben Applegate 08:41, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Akago

Should the Akago be in here if it only links to an inuyasha article?

Japanese Wikipedia Yōkai list

I think people need to be a little more choosy about adding things from this list. I think whoever wrote it got a little overzealous in including everything that could possibly be considered a yōkai, including a lot of things that are so extremely obscure there isn't really any information about them on the internet, and iffy things like historical figures with supernatural legends associated with them, or like dōsojin, roadside stone markers that are supposed to house protective kami, but which don't really fall into the "legendary creature" category unless you want to be extremely loose with the definition.

It is horrendously thorough, though, so it might be good to use it to double-check entries from Encyclopedia Mythica, to make sure things like "Yofune Nushi" and "Uwibami" (which don't even seem to exist on the Japanese-speaking internet) don't get re-added. Kotengu 23:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Equivalent creatures?

Are the Biwa-bokuboku on this list and the Biwa-yanagi the same? Pfhreak (talk) 19:36, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Even though I know some yōkais, I know no yōkai known as Biwa-yanagi. I Googled this one with katakana and possible kanji translations, but to no avail. So I believe Biwa-yanagi is mistakenly referred... Shigerello (talk) 15:14, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Reference!

Cho Hakkai in the Japanese yōkai list is not a Japanese yōkai. You know, historically, he only appeared in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. So I suggest we should remove Cho Hakkai from the list. What would you say? Shigerello (talk) 15:14, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]