Wow. 'Bout time they did this one.

Onwards to Chinese Mythology!

Other name for kyonshi? Wear the same clothes.

astarte952 said:

Other name for kyonshi? Wear the same clothes.

Yes. Jiangshi is closer to the original chinese reading. Kyonshi is how the Japanese think the Chinese read it. :P

_cf said:

Yes. Jiangshi is closer to the original chinese reading. Kyonshi is how the Japanese think the Chinese read it. :P

I think it may have been more that "Kyonshi" was similar to how "Jiangshi" would have been pronounced in Chinese at the time the word as borrowed into Japanese long ago. A language can change a lot in less than 2000 years.