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Visual depiction of Onryo

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Vol. II · Polytheism · death

Onryo

Japanese vengeful spirit


a woman in a white burial kimono with disheveled black hair floating above the ground, her intense resentment distorting the world around her

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
death

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.