E01 - 001 Kitsune

E01 – 001 Kitsune

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The Wise Trickster of the Sacred Forests

Japanese Name 狐
Romanization Kitsune
Classification Shapeshifting Animal Spirit
Expedition Expedition I — Sacred Forests
Threat Level ■■□□□ (Level II – Caution)
First Recorded 8th Century CE
The Kitsune is among Japan’s oldest and most enduring supernatural fox traditions. Both guardian and trickster, it has appeared in Japanese stories for more than a thousand years, serving as a sacred messenger in some religious contexts while elsewhere deceiving, possessing or interacting with humans through transformation and illusion.

E01 - 003 Bake-Danuki

E01 – 003 Bake-Danuki

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The Shape-Shifter Beside the Road

Japanese Name 化け狸
Romanization Bake-danuki
Classification Shapeshifting Animal Spirit
Expedition Expedition I — Sacred Forests
Threat Level ■■□□□ (Level II – Caution)
First Recorded Early 17th Century CE

Bake-danuki are supernatural tanuki associated with disguise, transformation, mischief and comic deception. Unlike the more ethereal fox traditions, tanuki stories often feel earthy and theatrical, with the animal fooling travellers, disguising itself as people or objects, and turning ordinary situations into elaborate supernatural performances.

E10 - 002 Ubume

E10 – 002 Ubume

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The Mother Who Could Not Let Go

Japanese Name 産女
Romanization Ubume
Classification Maternal Ghost
Expedition Expedition X — Spirits of Death
Threat Level ■■□□□ (Level II – Caution)
First Recorded Konjaku Monogatari-shū — c. 1120 CE
Ubume is a Japanese ghost tradition associated with women who died while pregnant or during childbirth. Stories frequently describe a woman appearing at night with an infant and asking a traveller to hold the child. Once accepted, the woman may disappear and the burden may become impossibly heavy or transform into a stone. Early-modern scholars later connected this maternal ghost with the Chinese bird-being 姑獲鳥, producing a second, birdlike Ubume tradition that should not be confused with the older Japanese ghost motif.