yōkai

yōkai (plural yōkai or yōkais)

1. Alternative form of yokai.
   • 2019 August 2, AMC, “Dreaded and Revered: The Ghosts of Japan”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 September 2021:

     Even today, visitors to Japan can see just how interwoven the nation’s culture is with its reverence toward the supernatural or unexplainable. This ranges from whimsically animated spirit worlds on film to the eccentric monsters and ghosts that feature prominently in contemporary artwork, to the yōkai woven into the tales of post-modernist writers.

   • 2020 April 10, Russell Thomas, “Meet Amabie: the pandemic-defeating monster bringing hope to Japan”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 April 2020:

     Japanese Twitter is alive with images of a duck-billed mermaid yōkai from Edo-era folklore with the supposed power to see off the coronavirus

   • 2021, Marie Brennan [pseudonym; Bryn Neuenschwander], chapter 5, in The Night Parade of 100 Demons (Legend of the Five Rings), Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Aconyte Books, →ISBN, page 60:

     Ryōtora passed under a torii arch, leaning semi-drunkenly to one side and propping itself up on a nearby tree. It looked like the work of time and weather, not yōkai malice.

   • 2022, Jack McGuigan, chapter 1, in Dog Walker III: Wedding Siege, [Chicago, Ill.]: Gorilla House, →ISBN, page 14:

     Nobody knows more about these yōkais than you. You have the police experience, and you took care of a giant one without any human casualties.

yōkai

1. Rōmaji transcription of ようかい