危険度
Danger rating
The one-to-five scale on each article, and what it is not.
Each yokai page carries a danger rating from one to five. It is an editorial summary made for readability and for the comparison features of the site: a five means the records describe the creature killing or maiming people as a matter of course; a one means it does nothing worse than follow you home or lick the bath. The same goes for the comparison statistics kept for each yokai, which the Yokai vs Yokai format draws on.
None of this is measured in the sources, which do not rate anything. A yokai that is deadly in one province and harmless in the next, like the snow woman, gets a rating that reflects the balance of the records and a note that says so. The ratings are ours, and the articles say so each time they appear.
Related yokai
Yuki-onna
雪女（ゆきおんな）
A pale woman seen on winter roads, sometimes deadly, sometimes harmless, and never described the same way everywhere.
Tofu-kozō
豆腐小僧（とうふこぞう）
Tofu-kozō, a big-headed child under a large hat carrying a tray of tofu, appears in Edo comic picture books from 1779. He follows people and does no harm, and in one story he drops his tofu running away from a human.
Kuchisake-onna
口裂け女（くちさけおんな）
Kuchisake-onna is not an old yokai. She is a rumour that swept through Japanese schoolchildren in 1978–79: a masked woman asking 'Am I pretty?' Almost every other detail changed from school to school.
Shuten-dōji
酒呑童子（しゅてんどうじ）
The tale of Shuten-dōji appeared in the fourteenth century: an oni lord on Mt. Ōe who carried off the daughters of the capital, and the warriors who got in disguised as monks and defeated him with sake.