Yokai Night Parade 百鬼夜行

愛媛県

Yokai of Ehime

4 yokai with records here · Shikoku · View on the map

Records in Ehime

Funayūrei

船幽霊（ふなゆうれい）

A ruined boat draws alongside at night and its crew asks for a scoop. Give them an ordinary one, and they may use it to fill your boat with seawater.

  • Sea · Coast · Ship
  • Harmful

Danger 4/5 Editorial rating Danger rating 4 out of 5. This is an editorial rating, not a folklore measurement.

  • 1985 Ōzu and Uwajima Folklore record

    Ruined boat whose crew asks for a ladle

Azuki-arai

小豆洗い（あずきあらい）

A bean-washing sound repeats beside a dark stream, but the person making it cannot be found.

  • River · Mountain
  • Unknown

Danger 2/5 Editorial rating Danger rating 2 out of 5. This is an editorial rating, not a folklore measurement.

  • 1978 Tōon Folklore record

    Counting sound under a bridge on rainy nights

Ushi-oni

牛鬼（うしおに）

Toriyama Sekien's 1776 print shows a bull-like head on a squat clawed body at the water's edge — and tells us nothing else about it.

  • Coast · Sea
  • Unknown

Danger 3/5 Editorial rating Danger rating 3 out of 5. This is an editorial rating, not a folklore measurement.

  • 1784 Uwajima Living rite

    Festival ushi-oni carried ahead of the portable shrine

Makura-gaeshi

枕返し（まくらがえし）

From Niigata in 1935 to Ibaraki in 1998, people recorded going to sleep facing one way and waking facing the other. The culprit changes from house to house; the reversal never does.

  • House
  • Neutral

Danger 1/5 Editorial rating Danger rating 1 out of 5. This is an editorial rating, not a folklore measurement.

  • 1985 Tobe Folklore record

    House on the shunned nawame ridge turns its sleepers

Records Library: Ehime

Places to visit in Ehime

  • Warei Shrine 和霊神社 Shrine or temple Uwajima, Ehime — The shrine of a murdered retainer on the edge of Uwajima, where the ushi-oni of the summer festival come to pay their respects.
  • Uwajima Ushi-oni Festival うわじま牛鬼まつり Festival Uwajima, Ehime — Three days in July when twenty-odd ushi-oni from the districts of Uwajima parade through the streets and the portable shrine runs into the river.

Places to Visit