Mononoke. Le temps des mauvais esprits. Numismatique the chapel was restored and

the chapel was restored and its polychromy fixed during work undertaken by the CFEETK in 1992-1993

the author draws on the rich corpus of written sources: literary texts

but of the rituals of a society

the great scholar was aware of this: neither the Vedic god Rudra

Only China and Japan have held Claudel's attention to this point

Mononoke. Le temps des mauvais esprits. Numismatique the chapel was restored andWhat are evil spirits? In Japan, there are said to be 8 million kami. These spirits encompass all manner of supernatural creatures, from the malignant to the monstrous, from the demonic to the divine, and everything in between. Most of them appear strange and frightening, even evil, from a human perspective. They are known by a myriad of names: bakemono, chimimry, mamono, mononoke, obake, oni, and ykai. Ykai is the most common catch all term for the