Hone-onna

Hone-onna


 The hone-onna appears first time in a yōkai encyclopedia called Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki, written in 1779 by Toriyama Sekien. The story in which the bone woman is mentioned is named Botan Dōrō It tells about a beautiful, but very skinny lady carrying a red lantern in shape of a peony flower and visiting men in attempt to sleep with them. Botan Dōrō itself is derived from a buddhistic Chinese tale collection named Otogibōko ( 御伽ばうこ ), written by Asai Ryōi in 1666. The collection was composed as some kind of moralfree version of the Chinese work Jiandeng Xinhua written in 1378 by Qu You.Hone-onna is also a character in Jigoku Shoujo, an anime series.

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