Ikiryō
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Ikiryō, also known as shōryō, seirei, or ikisudama, is a disembodied spirit or ghost in Japanese popular belief and fiction that leaves the body of a living person and subsequently haunts other people
Ikiryō (生霊) from the 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama
Nihonga Honō (焔, Flame) by Uemura Shōen, 1918. Tokyo National Museum. This work was inspired by Lady Rokujō, the ikiryō from The Tale of Genji and the Noh play Aoi no Ue.
"Onna no Mōnen Mayoiaruku Koto" (女の妄念迷ひ歩く事) from the 1573 work Sorori Monogatari (曾呂利物語)
Rikonbyō (離魂病) from the Kyōka Hyaku Monogatari, illustrated by Masasumi Ryūkansaijin in 1853. The woman on the left is afflicted by the "soul separation illness", and her ikiryō appears next to her.
Mononoke
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Mononoke are vengeful spirits, dead spirits, live spirits, or spirits in Japanese classical literature and folk religion that were said to do things like possess individuals and make them suffer, caus
Lady Rokujō depicted as an ikiryō in the work titled "Aoi no Ue" (葵上) from the Hokusai Manga by Katsushika Hokusai
"Mononoke Kikyo no Koto" (物怪帰去の事) from the "Totei Bukkairoku" (稲亭物怪録)