Editing Kensei (section)

===Kuroi-te Units===

* Kogen
Leader of the Kuroi-te. 

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* Sato
Kogen's second in command.

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* Taisho Yurei
A ghostly Taisho. 

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* Taisho Samurai
Undead Samurai officers.

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* Taisho Samurai On Horse
An Undead Samurai officer on a horse. 

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* Clan Hero Yari
A low-ranking officer with a spear.

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* Kensei
Undead Kensei. 

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* Samurai Kumigashira
An Undead Samurai officer.

Also called Go-Gashira, Kumi-Gashira are equivalent to a Lieutenant or a Platoon Commander in a modern military, answering to a Bugyo/Taisho (Captain) and commanding their troops directly. 

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* Ashigaru Kumigashira
An Ashigaru Undead low ranking officer.

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* Hatta-Jurushi

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Image:Katana Daisho Samurai.png|Samurai
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* Tenome
A bizarre-looking elderly person with no eyes on their head, which are instead in the palms of their hands. 

Most people would recognize this as the Pale Man from Guillermo del Toro's movie Pan's Labyrinth. Actually called the Tenome, there are several myths regarding his origin. In one he was a blind man who was killed by a bandit that returned so that his hands could be useful in a fight against him this time around. He wanders roads, using the eyes in his hands to see the face of every other being on the road until he finds his murderer. In another version, a bandit attacked an elderly man who overpowered him, causing the bandit to attempt to seek shelter at a nearby Shinto temple. The monster had eyes in its hands and made a sucking noise as it made chase, and by the time the priest had opened the door for the bandit the monster had stripped the skin and muscle from parts of him down to the bone and eaten the viscera. In a third story a boy who heard the first story was dared to visit a graveyard where the Tenome supposedly resided. The creature made chase, and the boy was forced to hide in the nearby shrine. The next morning the priests found the boy completely drained of blood. In Pan's Labyrinth, the Tenome/Pale Man resides in a giant underground complex seated at a table full of food, stationary until someone eats from it when he seizes his eyes off the plate in front of him and attacks. He exclusively eats children according to paintings of him on the walls, and eats fairies in the movie. 

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Image:Tenome.png|The mythological origin.
Image:Tenome Pale Man.jpg|The Pale Man. 
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* Yuki-Onna
A ghostly Yokai of a woman.

Yuki-Onna in real life Japanese myth are women who froze to death or died in the mountains. A more popular story, there's many variations from men who marry women and later find they are a ghost to spirits that chase the lost to their death to those that try to lead those who are lost to a more fortunate fate than their own (sometimes accidentally causing it, sometimes with success). In all versions of the story she produces frost, and can cause blizzards. 

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Image:Yuki-Onna Myth.png|The mythological origin. 
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* Undead Geisha
A Geisha who is Undead.

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* Samurai Katana Cavalry
Undead Samurai Katana Cavalry.

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* Samurai Naginata Cavalry
Undead Samurai Cavalry with Naginata. 

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* Samurai Yumi Cavalry
Undead Samurai Cavalry equipped with bows.

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* Yurei Naginata
Ghosts equipped with Naginata.

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* Yurei Nodachi
Ghosts equipped with Nodachi.

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* Ashigaru Yari Cavalry
Undead Ashigaru cavalry equipped with Yari.

* Katana Samurai
Undead Samurai with Katanas. 

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* Yumi Samurai
Undead Samurai with bows.

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* Yari Samurai
Undead Samurai with Yari.

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* Hone Samurai Naginata
Hone Samurai are those who die on the battlefield without having gained honor. They may have shamed themselves in their conduct, made a terrible mistake, or simply lost their only chance for a great victory by dying too soon. Hone Samurai souls remain within the increasingly rotted husk until they finally redeem themselves in a future conflict. 

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* Yari Ashigaru

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* Yumi Ashigaru

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* Doro-Ta-Bo
Undead Heinen. Basically the same as Kuro, but Undead. 

Based on the legend of the same name, where a farmer who labored his entire life to build a prosperous farm had a lazy and hedonistic son who sold his farm, causing his father to emerge from the mud every night to wander the ruins of the once-great land and wail in lament. 

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Image:Doro-ta-bo Banner.jpg|A Dora-ta-bo Hata-Jurushi.
Image:Dorotabo.jpg|The mythological origin. 
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* Goryo

Goryo (also spelled "Gorio") are hate-filled ghosts of nobility, and can be of either gender. 

Their purpose for remaining in the world is to avenge their dishonor, as each was invariably killed in some petty intrigue. Like Onryo though, they're not particular to whom they torture and kill. Bringing a sense of justice to them by enacting suffering on their killer or a descendant is all that can send them on outside an exorcism however. 
By knowing their true names, you can command them. Thus Goryo are not usually eager to tell you their story unless they believe your heart is pure. 

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* Gaki
Their name means "Hungry Spirits". Gaki are emaciated humans with rotting skin and bloated bellies who walk hunched or on all fours. They have grown fingernails like claws and their sharp teeth are bared whenever they see humans. 

Gaki are souls given a special punishment in the wheel of reincarnation, their sins not terrible enough to be made a demon but they still require penance. When they escape the Yomi they wander the Kuni looking to eat. They can be found anywhere there is manflesh to be had including battlefields, cemeteries, and even villages which aren't secured against the things that lurk in the night waiting to snatch a baby or a drunk, even entire households. 

tl;dr [[Ghouls]]

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* Mekurabe
Ghostly disembodied heads of various kinds.

Originally Mekurabe were skulls that appeared in increasing numbers in the courtyard of the general Taira no Kiyomori, who had survived several bloody wars and managed to instill the first Samurai-lead government in Japan in the 12th century, representing those who's deaths he caused. They along with demons continued to appear to him until when fever took him in old age they were all he could see until he died. 
The reason for the Mekurabe skulls is Namakubi, an important ritual of Japanese warfare of taking the severed heads of foes, especially those in positions of leadership, to present to their own leaders as a trophy. As a result of this many depictions of the ghosts of those who die in battle are merely floating severed heads. 

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Image:Mekurabe Myth.png|The myth the name comes from. 
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* Ukuri Inu
Yokai dogs.

Based on the myth of the same name who behave like wolves that feed exclusively on humans. Yosuzume are black sparrows that appear in swarms at night and find potential prey for the Okuri-Inu. They stalk any travelers the Yosuzume find for them, looking for any sign of weakness. If the traveler stumbles they must look like they did it on purpose, and must maintain a confident gait and exude a lack of fear. Those who can keep the Okuri-Inu at bay have the benefit that the Okuri-Inu will eat any less-confident bandits who may harass the traveler otherwise. Those who successfully leave the Okuri-Inu's territory will never be harmed by them if the traveler thanks them for their companionship loudly, then when they arrive at their destination wash their feet and set out food for the Okuri-Inu.

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Image:Okuri-Inu Myth.jpg|The mythological origin. 
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* Jikininki
Ghoul-like Yokai that eat the flesh of the living.

Based on a myth of the same name, where a young traveling priest encountered the ghost of a local priest that had been selfish in life and prized the luxuries of good food and fancy clothing that his position afforded him above all else, even his duties. This resulted in him transforming into a shapeless being after death that was forced to eat the corpses of the nearby village before they could be buried. The old ghost priest begged the young priest to bless him so he could escape his fate, which he was obliged through a Segaki (a ritual where monks set out food for the hungry spirits to help them find peace or perform their duties). 

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* Kubikajiri
A Yokai that feeds on human heads. 

Kubikajiri is the Japanese myth of is a headless Yokai that eats the heads of the living, and smells like fresh blood. The headless aspect is never actually portrayed in any images, for obvious reasons. Kubajikiri wander graveyards mostly while trying to find their own head until they find someone else's. 

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* Onryo
Ghostly women who savagely kill the living. 

Onryo are female ghosts that come in MANY different forms, beings who are not being punished but rather are owed a spiritual debt that cannot be repaid by those who caused their suffering. Instead, they cause misery in their own ways to any mortals they come across. Particularly bad hauntings can wipe out entire populations, leaving tainted places full of tortured ghosts from which there is no escape. Many are disfigured, others bring along those who suffered alongside them, most have a gimmick or two that they love to replicate. Some like the Kuchisake Onna are formulaic and have a set pattern to how they find victims and kill them, others like Kayako from The Grudge just kill and kill and kill. Chances are good that if you watch Japanese horror cinema, its almost always going to be about an Onryo.

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Image:Onryo Myth.png|The mythological origin.
Image:Ultimate Showdown Of Onryo Destiny.png|No, this is not photoshopped. This movie really exists. Forget praying, just try to die in something you're okay with wearing forever. 
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