Gaki (hungry ghosts)

The supplied materials do not contain a narrative origin story for gaki. Secondary scholarship commonly associates the Japanese term gaki with the Sanskrit preta (translated as 'hungry ghosts'), but this etymological and genealogical linkage is not demonstrated in the provided excerpts. Accordingly, this entry records that gaki are treated in broader academic usage as derived from preta while noting that the present sources do not supply primary-language or doctrinal origin accounts.

The provided documents do not describe the physical appearance or iconography of gaki. No visual or textual descriptions, attributes, or canonical depictions are present in the supplied excerpts. Where popular descriptions of 'hungry ghosts' exist in wider literature, those motifs are not available in these sources and therefore are not asserted here.

The supplied materials contain no documented statements about gaki abilities, powers, behaviors, or typical interactions with humans. The sources do not record whether gaki cause harm, express hunger in particular ways, accept offerings, or possess specific faculties; thus this entry does not assert behavioral traits beyond noting their classification as a type of supernatural spirit in Buddhist contexts as understood in secondary usage.