5 Japanese Mythical Creatures

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Every culture has some kinds of mythical creatures. But none are quite as unique as the Japanese wild bunch. Join me in this video as I count down 5 mythical creatures of Japan!


Written, narrated and animated by Matty Lukman.


All pictures are under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.


The following pictures are used under the CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY 4.0 licence:

Taxidermy of a Japanese raccoon dog, wearing waraji on its feet: This tanuki is displayed in a Buddhist temple in Japan, in the area of the folktale "Bunbuku Chagama" by Namazu-tron.
Tanuki next to a shrine by Jesper Rautell Balle.
A paired male and female kappa statues at the Sogenji Buddhist shrine at the Asakusa district in Tokyo by Karenjc.
Kappa (かはつは) from Bakemono no e (化物之繪, c. 1700), Harry F. Bruning Collection of Japanese Books and Manuscripts, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University by Brigham Young University - https://archive.org/details/bakemonoz....
A tengu mikoshi (portable shrine) in the city of Beppu, Ōita Prefecture, on Kyūshū.
Kōtai-jingū (Naiku) at Ise city, Mie prefecture, Japan by N yotarou.
Crow Tengu, late Edo period (28×25×58 cm) by WolfgangMichel.

MUSIC:

Japan by MusicService.


Thanks to:

Japanese Traditional Garden by bazzier.
Hand Drawn Kitsune Character by MissChatZ.
Beautiful transition graphics and animations by elmake.
Outro animation by PickmeDigital.