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Kappa, and creatures based on them, are recurring characters in Japanese tokusatsu films and television shows. Examples include the kappas in the Daiei/Kadokawa series Yokai Monsters, the 2010 kaiju film Death Kappa, [39] [40] and "King Kappa", a kaiju from the 1972 Tsuburaya Productions series Ultraman Ace. [41]
A Japanese chimera with the features of the beasts from the Chinese Zodiac: a rat's head, rabbit ears, ox horns, a horse's mane, a rooster's comb, a sheep's beard, a dragon's neck, a back like that of a boar, a tiger's shoulders and belly, monkey arms, a dog's hindquarters, and a snake's tail.
A clan of kappa once lived in the Yellow River in China, but migrated to Kuma River. The kappa clan had over nine-thousand members, and was called the Kuzenbo clan, which was also the name of their leader. Katō Kiyomasa recruited the help of local monkeys, which are the enemies of kappa, to defeat the king Kuzenbo and his clan. [1] [2] [3]
According to mythology, it is sometimes said that they are kappa that have come to dwell in the mountains. Yamawaro are known by a number of different, similar terms; in Ashikita District , Kumamoto Prefecture , they are also known as yamawarō, yamamon, yamanto , yaman wakkashi ( 山の若い衆 , "young person of the mountain") and yaman ...
Articles relating to the Kappa, an amphibious yōkai demon or imp found in traditional Japanese folklore. They are typically depicted as green, human-like beings with webbed hands and feet and a turtle-like carapace on their backs.
Yōkai (妖怪, "strange apparition") are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore.The kanji representation of the word yōkai comprises two characters that both mean "suspicious, doubtful", [1] and while the Japanese name is simply the Japanese transliteration or pronunciation of the Chinese term yaoguai (which designates similarly strange creatures), some Japanese ...
Hyōsube (ひょうすべ) is a Japanese yōkai. There are legends about them in many areas such as Saga Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture. [1] It is a child-sized river monster from Kyūshū that lives in underwater caves. It prefers to come out at night and loves to eat eggplants. It is a cousin of the supernatural yōkai in kappa folklore. [2]
A kappa Yo-kai who is the evolved form of Walkappa. Namigappa (なみガッパ, from nami (波, "wave")) / Supyo A kappa Yo-kai who is a recolored version of Appak. Robogappa (ロボガッパ) / Robokapp A robot kappa Yo-kai who is a robotic version of Walkappa. Komasan (コマさん) See recurring character section. Shishikoma (ししコマ ...