Oni Name Generator

How the Oni Name Generator works

Oni name generator: the patterns behind each name

The oni is the horned giant of Japanese folklore, red or blue skinned, iron clubbed, living on a mountain and coming down to break gates, eat travellers and lose drinking contests, and the generator names it with that bulk. The plain name is coined in a hard Japanese sound, heavy consonants and long vowels, Gorozan, Tetsumaru, Akagane, Doukaimaru, Kurogoro, Raigou, Gankai, Kongoumaru, Kurotetsu, and for the female oni, the mountain hag and the horned woman of jealousy, Kurenaiba, Onibara, Shuraka, Akaneme, Kijoumi, Rasetsuko, Benikage, Kokuen, with a role after it, the Mountain-King, the Gate-Breaker, the Iron-Club, the Bridge-Lord, the Toll-Taker, the Thunder-Horn. The horn name is the villagers' description, since an oni is known by its horns and its colour, the Iron-Horned, the Twin-Horned, the Broken-Horned, the One-Horned, Akagane the Iron-Horned, Onibara Twin-Horn, or simply the Red Oni, the Blue Oni, the Black Oni. The mountain is the high or waste place of the shared map of this section that the oni holds, the Red Mountain, the Broken Pass, the Iron Waste, the Burned Hills, Mourncastle, Cairnhold, Frostgard, the Ninth Tower. The epithet is the strength, the Unslain, the Iron-Skinned, the Thunder-Voiced, the Mountain-Tall, the Never-Fooled, and the deed is the story, drawn from the shared characters and events, drank the Salt Sea, held the Broken Pass against the Nine, broke the gate of Mourncastle with one hand, ate the Iron Duke's horse, took toll from the Last King, was tricked out of the Red Mountain by a kitsune, drank the Grey Knight under the table. The band is the mountain's oni together, the Red Oni of the Broken Pass, the Nine Oni of the Iron Waste, the Gate-Breaking Band, the Drunken Oni.

Plain name gives the name alone or with the role. Horn name gives the horns or the colour. Name with mountain gives the place. Name with epithet or deed gives the strength or the story. Oni band name gives the band.

The gender option splits the plain names, since the male oni and the mountain hag have different sounds, and leaves roles, horns, mountains, epithets, deeds and bands shared.

The lists are original. The plain names are coined for this page in a hard Japanese sound and are not taken from any anime, manga, game or card set, the roles, horns, mountains, epithets, deeds and bands are coined for this page, and no name is copied from a published oni; a match would be chance, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.

For the other spirits of the same tradition, the yokai page; for the fox that tricks the oni, the kitsune page; for the ogre of the west, the ogre page; and for the giant, the giant page.

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