Hone-onna (骨(ほね)女(おんな); "bone woman") is a type of Japanese yōkai first depicted in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki (1779) by Toriyama Sekien, and retroactively originated in the famous kaidan Botan Dōrō (1666) by Asai Ryōi. As their name implies, they are depicted as women in the form of bones, though to the men they loved back when they were alive, they appear as beautiful women.
Hone-onna (骨(ほね)女(おんな); "bone woman") is a type of Japanese yōkai first depicted in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki (1779) by Toriyama Sekien, and retroactively originated in the famous kaidan Botan Dōrō (1666) by Asai Ryōi. As their name implies, they are depicted as women in the form of bones, though to the men they loved back when they were alive, they appear as beautiful women.
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