Yokai Night Parade 百鬼夜行

鹿児島県

Yokai of Kagoshima

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

Records in Kagoshima

Ittan-momen

一反木綿（いったんもめん）

A white bolt of cloth that flutters across a rural night road, dazzles a traveler and attacks.

  • Road · Sky · Field
  • Harmful

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

  • 1938 Kimotsuki (Kōyama) Folklore record

    Bolt of white cotton that flutters down a night road and attacks

Kodama

木霊（こだま）

Kodama can mean both a presence within an old tree and the echo that returns from a mountain — but Japanese tradition gives it no single fixed body.

  • Forest · Mountain
  • Neutral

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

  • undated Kagoshima Folklore record

    Kodama trees that bleed when cut

Kuchisake-onna

口裂け女（くちさけおんな）

Kuchisake-onna is not an old yokai. She is a rumour that swept through Japanese schoolchildren in 1978–79: a masked woman asking 'Am I pretty?' Almost every other detail changed from school to school.

  • Street · Road
  • Harmful

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

  • 1979 Kagoshima Modern rumour

    Suicide after rejection version

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.

  • 2000 Kagoshima Folklore record

    Give them rice balls and they help carry great trees; yamawaro in the mountains in winter, kawatarō in the river in summer

Records Library: Kagoshima