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The name kappa is a contraction of the words kawa (river) and wappa, a variant form of 童 warawa (also warabe) "child". Another translation of kappa is "water-sprite". [3] The kappa are also known regionally by at least eighty other names such as kawappa, kawako, kawatarō, gawappa, kōgo, suitengu. [4]
The cat yokai, for example resembles the Chinese 仙狸 or "leopard cat immortal". Yet others are uniquely Japanese, such as the ambivalent and occasionally cute kappa, [34] the haradashi - a goofy yokai with its belly on its face, [35] and the mumashika, which are comical-looking yokai with horse heads and deer bodies. [36]
Deep in the mountains of Shizuoka Prefecture, there is a tale that the "yamahime" would appear as a woman around twenty years of age and would have beautiful features, a small sleeve, and black hair, and that when a hunter encounters her and tries to shoot at it with a gun, she would repel the bullet with her hands.
A woman whose jealousy turned her into an evil spirit, associated with a particular bridge in the city of Uji. Heikegani Crabs with human faces on their shells, said to be the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura. Hibagon The Japanese version of Bigfoot or the Yeti, sighted on Mount Hiba in Hiroshima Prefecture. Hiderigami
Yuki-onna illustration from Sogi Shokoku Monogatari. Yuki-onna originates from folklores of olden times; in the Muromachi period Sōgi Shokoku Monogatari by the renga poet Sōgi, there is a statement on how he saw a yuki-onna when he was staying in Echigo Province (now Niigata Prefecture), indicating that the legends already existed in the Muromachi period.
Jorōgumo (Japanese: 絡新婦 , じょろうぐも ) is a type of yōkai, a creature of Japanese folklore. It can shapeshift into a beautiful woman, so the kanji that represent its actual meaning are 女郎蜘蛛 (lit. ' woman-spider '); the kanji which are used to write it instead, 絡新婦 (lit.
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Rokurokubi (ろくろ首, 轆轤首) is a type of Japanese yōkai (apparition). They look almost completely like humans with some differences. There is a type whose neck stretches and another whose head detaches and flies around freely (nukekubi). The Rokurokubi appear in classical kaidan (spirit tales) and in yōkai works. [1]