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Noragami (manga, anime) – the character Nora is called Mizuchi by Father and is frequently shown walking over water. Spirited Away (anime, movie) – the character Haku looks like a Mizuchi and he is a river spirit. Inuyasha (manga) - the character a snake yokai called Mizuchi using its spit venom and poison mist.
The ikuchi has depicted by Sekien's like a sea serpent and some sources categorize ikuchi as belonging to a class of sea serpents, or creature of uncertain identity, i.e., cryptids. [ 8 ] [ 10 ] It has been conjectured it might be unknown giant species of sea snakes .
A spirit that washes azuki beans on the shoreline of a river or other body of water. Azukibabaa An old woman yōkai who grinds azuki beans but would much rather devour a person. Azukihakari A yōkai that is only sound, like a poltergeist. It makes the sound of red beans being sown on the floor in the house it haunts, gradually becoming louder.
Nure-onna (濡女, "wet woman") is a Japanese yōkai which resembles a reptilian creature with the head of a woman and the body of a snake. They are also seen as a paranormal phenomenon at sea under the name of nureyomejo. In legends, they are often said to consume humans, but they have no single appearance or personality.
In the early Edo period scroll Bakemono no e, umibōzu is shown to have a shaved, smooth head and appears to be all black but it also looks like a mix between a dog and possibly a sea serpent and an octopus (see image). Its arms end in what resembles hand made up of five tentacle-like appendages constituting a hand.
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 ...
Accounts typically depict them as green, human-like beings with webbed hands and feet and turtle-like carapaces on their backs. A depression on the head, called a "dish" (Japanese: sara), retains water, and if this is damaged or its liquid is lost (either through spilling or drying up), a kappa becomes severely weakened.
[The old man] answered, saying: "Its eyes are like akakagachi, it has one body with eight heads and eight tails. Moreover on its body grows moss, and also chamaecyparis and cryptomerias. Its length extends over eight valleys and eight hills, and if one looks at its belly, it is all constantly bloody and inflamed."