yōkai

supernatural beings from Japanese folklore
Thing general Q503186
yōkai
Katsushika Hokusai · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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yōkai

Summary

yōkai ranks in the top 0.31% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,631 views/month, #241 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • yōkai is in the country of Japan[2].
  • yōkai's image is recorded as Shunkosai Hokuei Obake.jpg[3].
  • yōkai's image is recorded as Kuniyoshi Kidomaru.jpg[4].
  • yōkai's image is recorded as Suushi Nekomata.jpg[5].
  • yōkai's image is recorded as Yoshitoshi The Ground Spider.jpg[6].
  • yōkai's image is recorded as Yoshitoshi The Heavy Basket.jpg[7].
  • yōkai's GND ID is recorded as 1148583335[8].
  • yōkai's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2008000111[9].
  • yōkai's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 15589901c[10].
  • yōkai's IdRef ID is recorded as 12029964X[11].
  • yōkai's subclass of is recorded as monster[12].
  • yōkai's subclass of is recorded as obake[13].
  • yōkai's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00574284[14].
  • yōkai's Commons category is recorded as Yōkai[15].
  • yōkai's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q13955 (ara)-Spotless Mind1988-يوكاي.wav[16].
  • yōkai's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 78272[17].
  • yōkai's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01jlxw[18].
  • yōkai's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph1260381[19].
  • yōkai's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Yōkai[20].
  • yōkai's worshipped by is recorded as Japanese mythology[21].
  • yōkai's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[22].
  • yōkai's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '妖怪'}[23].
  • yōkai's different from is recorded as yōkai in a work of fiction[24].
  • yōkai's FAST ID is recorded as 1744824[25].
  • yōkai's has list is recorded as list of legendary creatures from Japan[26].

Why It Matters

yōkai ranks in the top 0.31% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,631 views/month, #241 of 77,819).[1] yōkai has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] yōkai is known by 82 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  15. [16] . lingualibre.fr. lingualibre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
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  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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