Yokai of Ishikawa

Records in Ishikawa

河童（かっぱ）

A child-sized water yokai whose strength lives in the water held by the dish on its head.

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1982 Kanazawa Folklore record
Kawabiso pulls a horse's leg, loses an arm, buys it back with a medicine jewel

化け猫（ばけねこ）

Stories of old cats that speak, perform, dress like people or take human form—and the separate cat yokai they keep getting confused with.

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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.

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1982 Kanazawa Folklore record
Kawabiso: an otter-named river creature that was the local kappa