The ubume is essentially a mother who died in childbirth, with some having successfully given birth first. While not all ubume have their children survive, those lucky enough will do anything to ...

The Yokai Ubume was said to be a ghostly woman appearing at night, asking passersby to hold her child under threat of death. We examine how this terrifying figure came to be seen as a sympathetic one.

As a writer, Kyogoku displays the same tendencies as philosophers who try to do fiction, often seeming far more interested in pushing ideas than advancing the story. Ubume opens with a 40-page ...

An ubume is either the ghost of a woman who died in pregnancy or a mysterious feathered creature that harms children. But unbeknownst to its creator, ...

The scary image with goggly eyes and a pained expression was based on a Japanese ghost called ubume'. Tokyo: The Japanese artist behind the images that sparked the recent viral “momo challenge ...

Such was the case with Natsuhiko Kyogoku’s "The Summer of the Ubume." When it was first released in 1994, the book was deemed too long to be eligible for any Rookie of the Year awards (which have ...