Mountain Spirits

Spirits dwelling in ancient trees. The mountain echo is said to be their voice.

An old man yokai from Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyo, depicted holding a great mirror. Once a mortal guardian of the fields, transformed over time into something uncanny.

A mountain spirit from Chinese and Japanese tradition, often depicted as a one-legged elder who understands human speech. Also used as a general term for mountain supernatural phenomena.

A mountain spirit with a long nose or crow's beak, master of martial arts.

A supernatural spirit inhabiting the fierce winds that blow down from mountain peaks. The yama-oroshi represents the mountain god's breath or wrath, made manifest as a devastating gale.

A small mountain spirit that mimics sounds and voices in mountain valleys. The yamabiko is the yokai personification of echoes heard in the mountains.

A one-eyed, one-legged old man who dwells in deep mountain wilderness, encountered by hunters and woodcutters and sometimes understood as a manifestation of the mountain deity itself.

A mountain hag who devours travelers yet guards the peaks and raises heroes.

A beautiful supernatural woman inhabiting the deep mountains of Tohoku and central Japan, luring woodcutters and hunters into the wilderness. A feminine personification of the mountain's seductive danger.

A child-like yokai inhabiting the mountains of Kyushu, Japan. It loves sumo wrestling, sometimes helps and sometimes harasses mountain workers, and is widely considered the mountain counterpart of the water-dwelling kappa.