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In traditional Japanese folklore a kappa (河童, "river-child") —also known as kawatarō (川太郎, "river-boy"), komahiki (駒引, "horse-puller"), with a boss called kawatora (川虎, "river-tiger") or suiko (水虎, "water-tiger") —is a reptiloid kami with similarities to yōkai. Kappa can become harmful when not respected as gods.
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]
Kappa (Japanese: 河童, Hepburn: Kappa) is a 1927 novella written by the Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. The story is narrated by a psychiatric patient who claims to have travelled to the land of the kappa , a creature from Japanese folklore.
The king of all kappa, who dwells in the Chikugo River, which flows through Fukuoka Prefecture and Saga Prefecture. He was originally merely the leader of the mountain kappa until he won a contest against Sha Wujing for leadership of the river kappa. Kuzuryū A nine-headed dragon deity sometimes associated with water. Kyōkotsu
In various places in the Western half of Japan, there have been confirmed to be legends where yamawaro are kappa that have moved into mountains. In many of them, kappa would move into the mountains during the autumn Higan to become yamawaro, and during the spring Higan they would move back to the rivers to become kappa.
Kappamaki (Japanese: かっぱ巻き), cucumber sushi roll, is a norimaki (seaweed roll) with cucumber core. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a typical thin sushi roll along with dried gourd rolls and iron fire ( thunnus sashimi ) rolls.
From January 2008 to April 2010, if you bought shares in companies when Ralph Snyderman joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -14.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -18.4 percent return from the S&P 500.
The people of Kōchi Prefecture on Shikoku believe in a creature called shibaten or shibatengu (シバテン, 芝天狗, lawn tengu), but this is a small childlike being who loves sumō wrestling and sometimes dwells in the water, and is generally considered one of the many kinds of kappa. [24]