Yokai Night Parade 百鬼夜行

群馬県

Yokai of Gunma

2 yokai with records here · Kantō · View on the map

Records in Gunma

Bake-danuki

化け狸（ばけだぬき）

Morinji tradition tells of the monk Shukaku, an inexhaustible iron kettle, and the mujina or tanuki form revealed while he slept.

  • Temple or shrine · House
  • Helpful

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  • 1570 Morinji temple, Tatebayashi Legend or tale

    The monk Shukaku and the kettle that never ran dry

Kawauso

川獺（かわうそ）

In Gunma in 1956 the kawauso was a figure on a riverside road at dusk who glances back and beckons — not a traveler, but an otter in human form.

  • River · Pond
  • Harmful

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  • 1956 Shōwa Village, Tone District Folklore record

    Beautiful woman on a riverside road beckons; follow and be pulled in

Records Library: Gunma

Places to visit in Gunma

  • Morinji 茂林寺 Shrine or temple Tatebayashi, Gunma — The temple of the tea kettle that was a tanuki, with a row of tanuki statues up the approach and the kettle itself on show.
  • Kashōzan Mirokuji 迦葉山弥勒寺 Shrine or temple Numata, Gunma — The third of Japan's great tengu mountains, with a tengu mask taller than a house and a custom of borrowing a mask and bringing two back.

Places to Visit