Japanese Ghost Stories - The Eyes! The Eyes! (Mokumokuren)

Shoji is traditional Japanese paper screen covering doors and windows. It was believed that if a shoji screen was left uncared for it could be inhabited by a spirit or spirits known as Mokumokuren which took the form of a myriad eyes peering out of the shoji screen. Some think Mokumokuren to be harmless supernatural peeping toms perhaps but others beg to differ. This story tells of a brave but foolish young man who dared to stay in abandoned temple of ill repute.

Some believe Mokumokuran to be a creation of 18th Century artist Toriyama Sekien as a kind of a pun on the popular game, Go.

Our Shoji demonstrator is none other than the Biwa Player whose spooky performance I filmed 3 years. I met her again this past June.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnIQl5CZRr8

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• Japan
• ghosts
• storytelling
• japanese-ghosts
• yokai
• mokumokuren
• shoji
• spooky
• scary

[presvi]

Hi Sir, thank you! I've been looking for Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai narrations for a long time. Can you group your stories in a playist?

[RoninDave]

@presvi already done - just check my channel page for my playlists

[Mobius49]

Aaaah, now THIS is the type of stuff I've been looking for, great story, subbing now...

[RoninDave]

@Mobius49 thanks! be sure to check out my other ghost stories

[FlubbahProductions]

THUMBS UP IF YOU F***ING HATE BUFFERING! *THUMBS UP*

[Communitychoud]

oh god the end bit was like unexpected

[BlasianIndustries]

dat is scary crap

[Monkeyzombie405okc]

That gave me chills!!!!!!! @(・●・)@

[shane8109]

Now this is some creepy stuff

[Xaviersama016]

great... it`s night time while I`m hearing this and I`m scared =.=

[LikesGhostStories]

I wonder if you have made a vido clip of teke-teke or slit mouth woman. I think her name is Kuchisake Onna. It would be great to hear stories about them from you :)

[sanchen21]

Wow gr8 ..... Thnx for putting up all these great stories ..!!!

[DorkyMcLame]

@Johnathanmaturino "Because in that rag was a...uh...ghost. Yeah that's it, a ghost or something."

[Temarioneesama]

Now I know where Ichimokuren from Jigoku Shoujo came from :O

[HaggisMacfee]

Great atmospherics, imagine......old house

deep in the Japanese mountains, ghost stories by

candelight, shadows in the background, brrrrrrrr.... sends a shiver down the spine.