Yuki onna
Yuki Onna means 'Snow woman' in Japanese. It is a kind of frost spirit, or yōkai, in Japanese mythology that usually appears as a beautiful woman in a white robe with long black hair. In some stories, the Yuki Onna is good and helps people in the mountains. In other stories, she is evil and freezes people.
Yuki onna may also be known as yuki-musume[1] ("snow daughter"), yuki-onago ("snow girl"), yukijorō[1] (雪女郎, "snow woman"), yuki anesa ("snow sis'"), yuki-onba[2] ("snow granny" or "snow nanny"), yukinba[2] ("snow hag") in Ehime, yukifuri-baba[1] ("snowfall hag") in Nagano.[2] Yuki-onna also has many names that come from the Japanese word for icicle, like tsurara-onna, kanekori-musume and shigama-nyōbō.
Yuki Onna Media
Yuki-onna (ゆき女) from the Hyakkai-Zukan by Sawaki Suushi
Yuki-onna illustration from Sogi Shokoku Monogatari
Yuki-onna (雪女) from the Gazu Hyakki Yakō by Toriyama Sekien
Yuki-onna (雪女) from Bakemono no e (化物之繪, c. 1700), Harry F. Bruning Collection of Japanese Books and Manuscripts, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Konno 1981, cited by Hirakawa, Sukehiro (平川祐弘) (1992), 小泉八雲: 回想と研究 (Koizumi Yakumo: kaisō to kenkyū) (snippet), Kodansha, p. 227, ISBN 9784061590373, quote:"雪女の名称は雪娘、雪女郎、雪婆、雪降婆、シッケンケンなど.."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nobuyoshi Furuhashi (1992). "雪女伝説". In 吉成勇編 (ed.). 日本「神話・伝説」総覧. 歴史読本特別増刊・事典シリーズ. 新人物往来社. pp. 276–277. ISBN 978-4-4040-2011-6.
