Freaky Field Guide to Tokyo's Top 10 Mythical Beasts

Matt Alt writes a guide to Tokyo's legendary animals and mythical beasts on CNN Go with wonderful illustrations by Chip Boles. This is the Nue, a Japanese chimera with a head of a monkey, body of a tiger and tail of a poisonous snake. Don't look at it if you meet one because it can make you really sick.

(via Boing Boing)