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Shiryō

Index Shiryō

are the souls of the dead in Japanese folklore. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 6 relations: Ikiryō, Japanese folklore, Kōjien, Kunio Yanagita, Onryō, Soul.

  2. Goryō faith
  3. Japanese ghosts

Ikiryō

, also known as,, or, is a disembodied spirit or ghost in Japanese popular belief and fiction that leaves the body of a living person and subsequently haunts other people or places, sometimes across great distances. Shiryō and Ikiryō are Japanese folklore and Japanese ghosts.

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Japanese folklore

Japanese folklore encompasses the informally learned folk traditions of Japan and the Japanese people as expressed in its oral traditions, customs, and material culture.

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Kōjien

is a single-volume Japanese dictionary first published by Iwanami Shoten in 1955.

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Kunio Yanagita

was a Japanese author, scholar, and folklorist.

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Onryō

In Japanese traditional beliefs and literature, are a type of ghost believed to be capable of causing harm in the world of the living, injuring or killing enemies, or even causing natural disasters to exact vengeance to "redress" the wrongs it received while alive, then taking their spirits from their dying bodies. Shiryō and Onryō are Goryō faith, Japanese folklore and Japanese ghosts.

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Soul

In many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is the non-material essence of a person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence of a living being that is believed to be able to survive physical death.

See Shiryō and Soul

See also

Goryō faith

Japanese ghosts

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiryō

Also known as Shiryo.