Participants in cat-themed costumes attend the ‘bakeneko’ or supernatural cat festival as a pre-Halloween event in the Kagurazaka district of Tokyo. AFP ...
People dressed as cats and supernatural cats, known as “bakeneko”, take part in a parade to celebrate Halloween during the Kagurazaka Bakeneko Festival in Tokyo yesterday.
Cats have been an ever-present part of Japanese culture for hundreds of years: sometimes cherished as devoted protectors of Buddhist scriptures, other times feared as devious yokai (supernatural ...
One of the most enduring symbols of Halloween is the black cat, and their associations with the supernatural date as far back as the Middle Ages in Europe. Satan, witches and bad luck have followed ...