{"id":1276,"date":"2026-08-20T08:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:40:29","slug":"kuchisake-onna-slit-mouthed-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/kuchisake-onna-slit-mouthed-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuchisake Onna: Japan’s Slit-Mouthed Woman Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kuchisake Onna as pictured in modern horror film<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kuchisake Onna (\u53e3\u88c2\u3051\u5973, “slit-mouthed woman”) is a Japanese urban legend about a masked woman who stops someone alone at night, asks whether she is pretty, then lowers the mask to show a mouth cut open from one ear to the other. Unlike almost every other figure in Japanese folklore, she can be dated: the rumor surfaced in Gifu Prefecture in late 1978, reached the whole country inside about six months, and faded by the summer of 1979. She is a twentieth century invention rather than an inherited yokai, and she was catalogued into the yokai canon only after the panic. What follows separates what the rumor actually said from the origin stories attached to her afterwards.<\/p>\n

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