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«ISSUES OF JAPANOLOGY, vol. 9» St-Petersburg State Univ 2022 239 and all by turning onlookers to stone. Also in the legend of Ishinome an allusion is made by Otsuichi to the famous Japanese legend of Yuki Onna, who appears in one of kaidans (Japanese ghost stories) 4 . Yuki Onna is a monster from the ancient Japanese fairytale who lives deep in the mountains just like Ishinome and has a magical ability to turn the one who encounters her to the ice statue. Only once she confided in the young man who married her, but later betrayed her and broke the word he had given her; after that she got even angrier than she was before and never showed up again in the places inhabited by people. A monster from the second novel – “The Flat Dog” – also appears when the principal character feels solitude and internal emptiness, helplessness in front of circumstances. A 15-year-old girl, Suzuki-chan, whose relationships with her family aren’t going well, gets a tattoo of a dog on her arm. Very soon the dog named “Pokkie” turns out to be “alive”. The magic “dog” sees that the girl does not want to obey her parents. Suzuki-chan hates both them and her brother, and they seem never to be able to reach mutual understanding; therefore Pokkie kills the whole family but saves the girl from melanoma – although on the other hand she suffers the torture from him because he wants more tattoos on her skin: 4 See, for example: Лафкадио Хирн. Юки-онна (Lafcadio Hearn. Yuki- onna ) // in: Призраки и чудеса в старинных японских сказаниях. Кайданы. (Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan). Moscow, 2017. Pp. 121-129. (In Russian); Mizuki Shigeru. Yuki Onna (Snow Woman) // in: Zusetsu Nihon Yōkai Taizen (An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Japanese Monsters). Tokyo, 2008. Pp. 474-475. (In Japanese); Foster Michael Dylan. Yuki Onna // in: The Book of Yōkai. Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore. Oakland, 2015. Pp. 173-175; Yoda Hiroko and Alt Matt. Yuki Onna. Snow Woman // in: Yokai Attack! The Japanese Monster Survival Guide. Tokyo, Rutland, Vermont, Singapore, 2012. Pp. 158-161.