Japanese Yokai Girls - Yukionna (Honda Koji Shokai)

Honda Koji Shokai presents Yukionna as part of its Japanese Yokai Girls figure line, offering a collectible interpretation of one of Japan's most famous folkloric spirits. This prepainted figure stands at 70mm tall and was released in January 2018. The Yuki onna, or snow woman, is a yokai from Japanese folklore said to haunt mountain passes during heavy snowstorms in the Japanese Alps. Legends describe her as possessing otherworldly beauty with long black hair and dark, piercing eyes, her skin as white as snow and her body as cold as ice. She feeds on the life force of travelers, freezing them with an icy breath. Yet folklore also portrays her with surprising depth — she can fall in love with her intended prey and spare them, sometimes even marrying humans, though these unions inevitably end when her supernatural nature is discovered. A famous tale from Yamagata Prefecture tells of an innkeeper whose touch revealed a visiting woman's icy body before she dissolved into mist. This figure from Honda Koji Shokai captures the Yukionna in collectible form, bringing the eerie beauty of the snow woman to collectors' shelves.