Yuki-Onna appears as a beautiful
woman, tall, long-haired, pale-skinned inhumanly and sometimes even
transparent.Sometimes wears a white kimono. Despite her inhuman beauty, her
eyes causing terror in mortals; also in walking leaves no footprints in the
snow (according to some stories do not have feet, a trait common to YUREI), and
can turn into a cloud of mist or snow if threatened.
The Yuki-Onna, associated
with winter and snowstorms, is according to some legends the spirit of a dead
person in the cold in the snow. It is both beautiful and serene, yet ruthless
in killing the unwary travelers. Until the eighteenth century, it was almost
always portrayed as evil. Today, however, many stories describe in tones more
human, emphasizing her ghostlike nature and its ephemeral beauty.
In my version she appears in a field of cherries in a snow stormy day.
