Yokai Night Parade 百鬼夜行

福岡県

Yokai of Fukuoka

3 yokai with records here · Kyūshū · View on the map

Records in Fukuoka

Nurikabe

塗り壁（ぬりかべ）

A night-road obstruction that stops travelers like a wall, though the early record does not describe a visible body.

  • Road
  • Harmful

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

  • 1938 Onga District Folklore record

    Night road becomes a wall; sweep the bottom with a stick

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 Ashiya, Onga District Folklore record

    Lend the akatori with its bottom knocked out

Yamawaro

山童（やまわろ）

The hairy mountain child of Kyushu: a 1950 Ashikita record of one snapping twigs all night beside a charcoal burner, the rice balls and sake it works for, the paths where no kiln may stand, and the belief that it is the kappa gone up the mountain for the winter.

  • Mountain · Forest · River
  • Mixed

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

  • 1953 Fukuoka Folklore record

    Kappa leave the river and climb the mountain for the winter, where they become yamawaro

Records Library: Fukuoka

Places to visit in Fukuoka

  • Tanushimaru Station, the Kappa Station 田主丸駅（河童駅舎） Site Kurume (Tanushimaru), Fukuoka — A country station built in the shape of a kappa's head, in a town on the Chikugo river that has made the river child its own.
  • Kurume Suitengū 久留米水天宮（全国総本宮） Shrine or temple Kurume, Fukuoka — The head shrine of the water gods of Japan, on the bank of the Chikugo river, where the kappa of the river are said to have taken service.

Places to Visit