List of legendary creatures from Japan

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List of legendary creatures from Japan - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of legendary creatures from Japan” in English Wikipedia has 41.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 24 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.64 points.

This article has the best quality in Polish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

Since the creation of article “List of legendary creatures from Japan”, its content was written by 248 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 524 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 502 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1637 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #100 in September 2024
• Global: #624 in September 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3178 in August 2014
• Global: #4118 in August 2014

There are 10 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Polish (pl) Lista legendarnych stworzeń Japonii		50.1862
2	French (fr) Liste des yōkai		48.7895
3	English (en) List of legendary creatures from Japan		41.8005
4	Chinese (zh) 日本妖怪列表		40.912
5	Italian (it) Elenco delle creature leggendarie del Giappone		38.8188
6	Japanese (ja) 日本の妖怪一覧		34.7078
7	Catalan (ca) Llista de Yōkai		21.9831
8	Romanian (ro) Listă de creaturi din mitologia japoneză		17.8086
9	Norwegian (no) Liste over legendariske skapninger i japansk mytologi		16.8686
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sinh vật huyền thoại Nhật Bản		13.1382

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 日本の妖怪一覧		11 396 149
2	English (en) List of legendary creatures from Japan		9 212 229
3	French (fr) Liste des yōkai		805 803
4	Chinese (zh) 日本妖怪列表		771 897
5	Polish (pl) Lista legendarnych stworzeń Japonii		314 145
6	Norwegian (no) Liste over legendariske skapninger i japansk mytologi		16 031
7	Vietnamese (vi) Sinh vật huyền thoại Nhật Bản		5 104
8	Catalan (ca) Llista de Yōkai		2 842
9	Romanian (ro) Listă de creaturi din mitologia japoneză		2 156
10	Italian (it) Elenco delle creature leggendarie del Giappone		461

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 日本の妖怪一覧		26 154
2	English (en) List of legendary creatures from Japan		18 435
3	French (fr) Liste des yōkai		2 797
4	Chinese (zh) 日本妖怪列表		2 360
5	Polish (pl) Lista legendarnych stworzeń Japonii		791
6	Italian (it) Elenco delle creature leggendarie del Giappone		245
7	Vietnamese (vi) Sinh vật huyền thoại Nhật Bản		66
8	Romanian (ro) Listă de creaturi din mitologia japoneză		38
9	Catalan (ca) Llista de Yōkai		23
10	Norwegian (no) Liste over legendariske skapninger i japansk mytologi		18

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of legendary creatures from Japan		248
2	Japanese (ja) 日本の妖怪一覧		110
3	French (fr) Liste des yōkai		58
4	Chinese (zh) 日本妖怪列表		50
5	Polish (pl) Lista legendarnych stworzeń Japonii		21
6	Norwegian (no) Liste over legendariske skapninger i japansk mytologi		18
7	Catalan (ca) Llista de Yōkai		9
8	Romanian (ro) Listă de creaturi din mitologia japoneză		4
9	Italian (it) Elenco delle creature leggendarie del Giappone		3
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sinh vật huyền thoại Nhật Bản		3

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 日本の妖怪一覧		2
2	Italian (it) Elenco delle creature leggendarie del Giappone		1
3	Chinese (zh) 日本妖怪列表		1
4	Catalan (ca) Llista de Yōkai		0
5	English (en) List of legendary creatures from Japan		0
6	French (fr) Liste des yōkai		0
7	Norwegian (no) Liste over legendariske skapninger i japansk mytologi		0
8	Polish (pl) Lista legendarnych stworzeń Japonii		0
9	Romanian (ro) Listă de creaturi din mitologia japoneză		0
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sinh vật huyền thoại Nhật Bản		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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