Gashadokuro

Origin and tradition

Modern Japanese yokai tradition describes Gashadokuro as a giant skeleton formed from the bones and resentment of the unburied dead.

Illustration in this atlas

A towering skeleton whose teeth clatter like distant bells and whose hand can close around a traveler whole.

References and further reading

1. en.wikipedia.org — Gashadokuro

These references offer further reading. Accounts and depictions vary; the atlas illustration is interpretive artwork, rather than historical or scientific evidence.