Akaname

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The akaname (垢(あか)嘗(なめ), 'scum-licker'; 'filth-licker') is a Japanese yōkai depicted in Toriyama Sekien's 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, with its precursor or equivalent akaneburi (/垢ねぶり/垢舐(ねぶり)) documented earlier in 1686.

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Image: Utagawa Yoshikazu (歌川芳員, Japanese), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.