![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is said that only an onmyōji clan head is strong enough to pass Nurarihyon's Hyakki Yagyō unharmed. One legend of recent vintage states that "every year the yōkai Nurarihyon, will lead all of the yōkai through the streets of Japan during summer nights." Anyone who comes across the procession would perish or be spirited away by the yōkai, unless protected by exorcism scrolls handwritten by Onmyōji spell-casters. Over more than one thousand years of history, and its role as a popular theme in traditional storytelling and art, a great deal of folklore has developed around the concept, making it difficult if not impossible to isolate any canonical meanings. As a terrifying eruption of the supernatural into the real world, it is similar (though not precisely equivalent) to the concept of pandemonium in English. Sometimes an orderly procession, other times a riot, it refers to a parade of thousands of supernatural creatures known as oni and yōkai that march through the streets of Japan at night. Hyakki Yagyō ( 百鬼夜行, "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons" ), also transliterated Hyakki Yakō, is an idiom in Japanese folklore. ![]()
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