Yurey

Typically, yureys are:

• Those who died a violent death. This includes onre , such as Sugawaru no Mitizane , who later became revered as the god of thunder and the patron of science. Such onre can be considered a prototype of classical ghosts, the ideas of which were formed in the XVII-XVIII centuries. Most of them are women who died through the fault of their husbands. The most famous example of such a woman is O-Yves .
• Those over whom the proper ceremonies were not performed. Such perfumes are very common in modern Japan. The favorite place for their appearance is road tunnels dug under their graves.
• Not completed some important thing. Most often this is revenge.
• Souls who temporarily left their bodies.
• Apostates who found no place on earth or in heaven. Since in Japan there are practically no religious movements admitting this, this type of yurei is practically not found. ^[one]

The first mention of vengeful ghost literature can be found in the pages of The Tale of Genji , written a thousand years ago. Then, the authors of plays for the theater began to acquaint themselves with the appearance of the afterlife representatives of their compatriots. In the XIV-XV centuries, ghosts and spirits became the main characters on the stage of this theater. In the years of the Edo period (1603-1868), ghosts also took root on the stage of the kabuki theater. Famous woodcutters, for example, Katsushika Hokusai , devoted their engravings to this topic.

Japanese ghosts are not tied to a specific habitat. Yurei are especially interested in abandoned houses, old temples, dilapidated mountain shacks, where they await the belated traveler. Unlike youkai , as a rule, unlucky, innocent, gullible, although sometimes malicious, yurei are often characters in truly terrible tales. Sometimes their very appearance terrifies the hero, because a ghost in a female guise instead of a face may have a translucent ball with one eye on her chin, or even without an eye at all, or suddenly, gracefully waving her sleeve, an unknown beauty will bare her elbow, and with he will be watched, without blinking, for two or three eyes. The souls of these sufferers (warriors, abandoned wives, unfortunate lovers), not finding peace, roam the earth, most often around places associated with their death, in the hope of revenge. According to experts, their phosphorescent contours at night with long flexible arms, but without legs, with glowing ruby ​​light, can be quite often seen in some hotels or in dilapidated houses where the crime once occurred, at cemetery gates or abandoned duckweed-covered duckweeds ponds. And if you do not see, so hear their heavy breathing in an empty room, steps behind the wall, heartbreaking moans, rattling of heels of wooden shoes in a dark alley.

• Hanako-san is a famous Japanese urban legend about a Yurey girl living in a school shower room.
• “ The Curse ” is a film by Takashi Shimizu .
• "The Bell " is a film by Hideo Nakata .
• Pulse is a film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa .
• Yuyuko Saigyouji , a character in the Touhou Project series of computer games, first appeared in touhou youyoumu perfect cherry blossom in 2003.
• Hitodama

• A. Lazarev “Japan Today” No. 8, 2004
• Voityshek E. E. Maps of "Iroha". Ancient intellectual Japanese game. - Novosibirsk: Publishing House of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS, 1999.

• http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/youkaidb