Yokai of Hyōgo

Records in Hyōgo

Kitsune

狐（きつね）

A 1930 account from Toyooka describes blurred blue or red foxfire moving restlessly from beyond the mountain to somewhere close by.

Mountain · Forest · Road
Unknown

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

1930 Toyooka (Tajima) Folklore record
Blue or red foxfire that never stays beyond the mountain

Teke Teke is a modern school ghost story, best known as the upper half of a woman who drags herself along on her elbows. Its origin cannot be traced, and one recorded version from a Kobe high school puts it in a mirror instead.

Street · Other
Harmful

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

2001 Kobe (a high school) Modern rumour
Teke-teke-san who lives in a mirror

Aka Manto

赤マント（あかマント）

The red-cloaked man of a Tokyo rumour in February 1939, denied on the radio by the police and spread by schoolchildren across the capital, and the school-toilet Aka Manto of the 1980s who asks whether you want the red cloak or the blue.

Street · Other
Harmful

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

1972 Amagasaki (a school) Modern rumour
A voice in the school toilet asked, red paper or white paper; the earliest dated toilet-colour tale

Records Library: Hyōgo

1930 The fox's fire that never stays still Toyooka, Hyōgo · Kitsune
2001 Teke-teke-san in the mirror Kobe, Hyōgo (a high school) · Teke Teke

Places to visit in Hyōgo

Fukusaki: Yanagita Kunio's Birthplace and the Yokai Benches 福崎町（柳田國男・松岡家記念館と妖怪ベンチ） Site Fukusaki, Hyōgo — The town where the founder of Japanese folklore studies was born, which has filled its park and streets with the yokai he wrote about.

Places to Visit