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In yōkai karuta, hitotsume-kozō are depicted carrying tōfu, but according to the yōkai researcher Katsumi Tada, since "mametsubu (豆粒, bean pieces)" leads to "mametsu (魔滅, sound health)", hitotsume-kozō are supposed to dislike beans, but somehow before anyone knew it the hitotsume-kozō switched to having tōfu (made from soybeans ...
Kokehime was almost cursed by Sodemogi but saved by Kurotabo. 400 years ago, Kokehime was a human, but because of her power that made her tears into pearls, she was targeted by Hagoromo Gitsune. After being saved by the Nura Clan, she moved to Edo. She was shown to be attached to Hitotsume Nyudo after the defeat of Hagorome Gitsune 400 years ago.
Hitotsume-kozō A bald child spirit with a single eye like a cyclops. Hitotsume-nyūdō A monk spirit with a single eye like a cyclops. Hiyoribō The spirit which stops rainfall. Hoderi The eldest son of Ninigi-no-Mikoto and Konohanasakuya-hime, a kami of the sea's bounty and the brother of Hoori.
Rikuo Nura is the third heir of the Nura Clan as one-quarter yōkai and a middle school student as three-quarters human. Meanwhile, Gyuki secretly plans to usurp Rikuo. At school, Rikuo is invited by classmate Kiyotsugu Kiyojuji to the old school building, where it is rumored to be haunted by yōkai at nighttime.
They are said to visit people's home together with a hitotsume-kozō. [3] 。 In order to avoid a mikaribaba, one would leave a basket or zaru at the entrance of the home, [2] and it is said to be effective to put the tip of a rod into the bamboo basket and make it stand on the ridge of the house's roof. [4]
In the kusazōshi like what were previously mentioned, they were frequently treated as servants, but there were also yōkai that appeared earliest that were also servants such as the hitotsume-kozō, the amefurikozō, the tanuki, and the kappa, and since the hitotsume-kozō and the kappa have been depicted possessing tōfu, there is the theory ...
Also, a hitotsume-nyūdō appears in the kaidan Inō Mononoke Roku from the Edo period, and there was a picture depicting it attempting to capture the main character Heitarō (refer to image), but this one is a tanuki that has shapeshifted. [2] In Hidaka District, Wakayama Prefecture, there is a yōkai tale as follows.
In order to placate him, the emperor restored all his offices, burned the official order of exile, and he was promoted to Senior Second Rank. Even this wasn't enough, and 70 years later he was elevated to the post of Daijō-daijin, and he was deified as Tenjin-sama, which means "heavenly deity". He became the patron god of calligraphy, of ...