Akaname
Sign in to savethumb|alt="Akaname of the Deep Dark Valley" from the pictured paper used as dice game board, Utagawa Yoshikazu|Sokokuradani no Akaname ("Akaname of the Deep Dark Valley"), a frame of something beating it to a picture print used as dice board. Hyakushu kaibutsu yōkai sugoroku (1858) by . thumb|upright|"Akaname", Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Toriyama Sekien]]
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thumb|alt="Akaname of the Deep Dark Valley" from the pictured paper used as dice game board, Utagawa Yoshikazu|Sokokuradani no Akaname ("Akaname of the Deep Dark Valley"), a frame of something beating it to a picture print used as dice board. Hyakushu kaibutsu yōkai sugoroku (1858) by . thumb|upright|"Akaname", Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Toriyama Sekien]]
The is a Japanese yōkai depicted in Toriyama Sekien's 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, with its precursor or equivalent documented earlier in 1686.
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