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7/2/2025, 5:17:49 AM
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Oh, there's also oni which are sometimes translated as ogres, but Japan doesn't really have a perfect fairy equivalent (except arguably tengu which are at the least sometimes called Japanese goblins in English albeit having little in common with European goblins) and even if they did, it wouldn't be oni. Japan has a diverse variety of monsters in various nebulous groupings, but oni are sorta in their own little corner on account of 1 important key trait. They're *corporeal*. They're about as far as what you could consider Japanese fairy analogues as you could get.
And the Chinese ghosts from which they are possibly descended are not at all related to Chinese fairies.
Oh, but I guess oni which could be considered Japanese ogres were mischaracterized as Japanese goblins in a Touhou song that reached meme status so if you knew goblins are fairies and you knew oni were Japanese ogres and you knew the song was about an oni you could have been brought to the mistaken assumption that ogres are fairies through that shit.
>>149237923
Oh, there's also oni which are sometimes translated as ogres, but Japan doesn't really have a perfect fairy equivalent (except arguably tengu which are at the least sometimes called Japanese goblins in English albeit having little in common with European goblins) and even if they did, it wouldn't be oni. Japan has a diverse variety of monsters in various nebulous groupings, but oni are sorta in their own little corner on account of 1 important key trait. They're *corporeal*. They're about as far as what you could consider Japanese fairy analogues as you could get.
And the Chinese ghosts from which they are possibly descended are not at all related to Chinese fairies.
Oh, but I guess oni which could be considered Japanese ogres were mischaracterized as Japanese goblins in a Touhou song that reached meme status so if you knew goblins are fairies and you knew oni were Japanese ogres and you knew the song was about an oni you could have been brought to the mistaken assumption that ogres are fairies through that shit.
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