Ōzatō

02/10/202402/10/2024| EliŌzatō| 0 Comment| 3:25 pm
Ōzatō
Depiction in the Konjaku Hyakki Shui.

Ōzatō

Ōzatō (大座頭) is a man portrayed as a type of yōkai depicted in the Konjaku Hyakki Shūi by Toriyama Sekien.

He was a shamisen player, who performed at brothels, dressed in ragged clothes, wooden sandals and clutching a wooden cane. He was said to wanders streets on stormy nights.

He was presumably blind if he was a Zato.

They are not really a type of yōkai, but these kind of people were seen as loansharks and so became considered evil after being published about in the 1812 tabloid Seji Kenbunroku.1

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Footnotes

1. Yoda, H. and Alt, M. (2016) “Japandemonium: Illustrated: The Yokai Encyclopaedia of Toriyama Sekien.”. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.

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