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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 20h

I'm in Kyoto tonight for Mononoke Ichi and the KaiKai Yokai Festival, but that doesn't mean there's no A-Yokai-A-Day today!

Check it out here:

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A-Yokai-A-Day: The Yamabushi of Takurayama | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 2d

Tonight's A-Yokai-A-Day is up on my Patreon! Check out the link below.

How would you handle it if your employee told you needed some time off because he was a demon and he needed to take some time off to steal corpses?

Maybe it's better not to ask for reasons...

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A-Yokai-A-Day: The Demon Servant | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 2d

Tonight on A-Yokai-A-Day: Have you ever sat and watched a spider spinning a web, wondering what they're thinking? 🕷️

It may be something much more sinister than you'd expect! 🕸️

Check out tonight's #yokai story on my Patreon at the link below:

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A-Yokai-A-Day: The Strange River | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 3d

Ooh I love this!

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 3d

Reminder*

No need to re-mine this.

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 3d

Reminer! I'll be at Kyoto's Uzumasa Eigamura this Sunday, along with a bunch of other great yokai artists! Don't miss out on the year's greatest yokai attraction!

Hope to see you there!

#怪々YOKAI祭2025
#モノノケ市

Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 8d

Attention yokai lovers on Bluesky!

The Kaikai Yokai Festival is happening again this fall at Uzumasa Eigamura in Kyoto!

I'll be there next weekend (Oct 12) for Mononoke Ichi, along with a bunch of really awesome yokai creators!

Don't miss it!

#怪々YOKAI祭2025
#モノノケ市

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 3d

They say that plants have feelings, but this is not new news. Tonight's A-Yokai-A-Day confirms that even back in the Edo period, plants were expressing their feelings in all kinds of ways!

Check out tonight's story below on my Patreon:

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#yokai #halloween

A-Yokai-A-Day: How an Unconscious Thing Repaid a Kindness | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 4d

Tonight's A-Yokai-A-Day is story number 100 of Shokoku hyakumonogatari!

It took four years of A-Yokai-A-Days to finish this collection, and I am happy to complete it. I hope you enjoyed this book as much as I did.

Check it out for free on my Patreon below:

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A-Yokai-A-Day: How Telling One Hundred Ghost Stories Lead to Wealth and Honor | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 5d

A great moment! :D

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 5d

Aw thank you. :) And good luck on your studies! It's not an easy language, but it is a fun one.

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 5d

If you like Japanese traditional crafts, you owe it to yourself to check out the special write-ups I did for my Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/osa...

Help support local artisans preserving 1500 year old traditional crafts by joining my Kickstarter! This is some cool stuff, guys!

Update 2: About the Add-Ons: Echizen Lacquerware · Echizen-Wakasa Kidan: Strange Tales from Fukui

Hello backers!I'd like to take the chance to introduce a bit more about Fukui and the traditional crafts being used in this Kickstarter. While I've been translated yokai stories and introducing them t...

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 5d

So honored to be the first! <3

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 5d

My heart always skips a beat when I see my books on someone's shelf photo.

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 5d

Below are some sample pages so you can see how fabulous the books are. He also has a website and Patreon. I honestly can't recommend his work enough. And definitely check out his latest book project on Kickstarter, it looks amazing!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/osa...
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Open book with text to left and illustration to right, showing balls of light glowing along a path with mountains behind.

Open book with text to left and illustration to right, showing a white fix in front of red torii and small white fix statues around.

Open book with text to left and illustration to right, showing a ghostly turtle looming over terrified men.

Open book a two page illustration of a variety of red objects used to protect from evil and illness.

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 5d

My first book recommendation for #MythologyMonday is anything by Matthew Meyer (@yokai.com). His books are absolutely amazing and they feature his full page illustrations and information about each yokai. Matthew is continuously illustrating new yokai and translating the folklore into English.
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Five books by author Matthew Meyer, each in the same style but with different coloured covers. Books are listed on his website yokai.com

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 5d

A really cool and scary, detailed account of an #exorcism in today's A-Yokai-A-Day! Chills down my spine I tell you!

This is one of my favorite #ghost stories in Shokoku hyakumonogatari, and it's story #99! Just one more to go!

Read it for free on my Patreon below:

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A-Yokai-A-Day: The Woman’s Ikiryō; or, The Divine Power of a Yoritsuke | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 6d

Just make sure you bring an extra pair of glasses!

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 6d

If you died, what would make you come back as a #ghost?

I think I would definitely come back to play D&D, though I'm not sure my players would want an undead DM.

But an afterlife of board games seems like a fun one!

Check out today's A-Yokai-A-Day post below:

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A-Yokai-A-Day: How Ōmori Hikogorō’s Wife Died and then Came Back to Play Sugoroku | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 7d

Great film, and that art is just *chef's kiss*

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 7d

Shivers indeed! That is terrifying!

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 8d

Thank you so much! :) I'm glad you're enjoying them.

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 8d

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 4th!

Ever hear a strange call in the woods and think it sounds like a monster? It seems like this is a universal instinct. Even the Jersey Devil is theorized to have been a sandhill crane...

Enjoy tonight's yokai story free on my Patreon:

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A-Yokai-A-Day: The Ugume of Tsuru-no-hayashi | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 8d

Awesome! :) I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 8d

There's a ton of information & photos over on X, but unfortunately not as much here on Bluesky.

But you can see how awesome the festival is here: x.com/hashtag/%E6%...

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https://x.com/hashtag/怪々YOKAI祭2025

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 8d

Attention yokai lovers on Bluesky!

The Kaikai Yokai Festival is happening again this fall at Uzumasa Eigamura in Kyoto!

I'll be there next weekend (Oct 12) for Mononoke Ichi, along with a bunch of really awesome yokai creators!

Don't miss it!

#怪々YOKAI祭2025
#モノノケ市

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