日本的鬼为什么没有脚？画师1750年代画了一幅画

Japanese ghosts are generally dressed in white, with loose hair, two hands hanging in front, and the lower half of their bodies floating without feet. Why do they have no feet?

One theory is that this image was created in a painting. Maruyama Ōkyo, a painter of the Edo period, painted a work titled "The Ghost of Oyuki": a woman in white clothing with long hair, whose lower half gradually faded away, leaving only a wisp of smoke. Legend says he painted his beloved wife, who had died young, bringing her back to life on canvas. Later painters learned from him, kabuki troupes learned from him, and gradually everyone came to feel that this is what ghosts should look like.

However, some researchers say that before Ōkyo, there were already footless ghosts in Japanese paintings; it's just that Ōkyo's painting was the most famous, so everyone remembered him.

The all-white attire also has its significance: the "shrouds" Japanese people dress the dead in are white, with the left side of the collar overlapping the right—the opposite of the living—and a triangular piece of white cloth is worn on the forehead. So the image of the ghost actually comes from the appearance of the deceased at funerals.

Another theory is that China's "ghosts cast no shadow" was transmitted to Japan and became "ghosts have no feet."

To this day, Japanese horror films still feature white clothing and long hair, though the footless depiction is not as common anymore; most show a back view, slowly crawling toward the viewer. In the 1998 film *Ringu*, Sadako crawling out of the television—dressed in white, with long hair covering her face—influenced Asian horror films for the next twenty years.

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