Records in Kanagawa

Futakuchi-onna

二口女(ふたくちおんな)

The 1841 Ehon Hyaku Monogatari made Futakuchi-onna a stepmother punished with a mouth at the back of her head. Folktales of the wife who eats nothing, recorded in the twentieth century, give the same hidden mouth to brides who turn out to be snakes, spiders, and oni.

  • House
  • Harmful

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

  • 1977 Kanagawa Folklore record

    Spider bride; neighbours called to rescue the husband

Daidarabotchi

だいだらぼっち

In Sagamihara, a giant called Deirabotchi carried Mt. Fuji on his back, sat down to rest, and found the mountain had taken root. He stamped in frustration, and his footprint became a pond.

  • Field · Mountain
  • Neutral

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

  • undated Kanuma Park, Sagamihara Legend or tale

    Giant who set down Mt. Fuji; his footprint became the pond

Ugoku Jintai Mokei

動く人体模型(うごくじんたいもけい)

The school science-room anatomy model that moves at night, a Japanese school ghost story recorded from pupils since the 1980s and told again by first-graders in a 2024 Fukui school report.

  • Other
  • Unknown

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

  • 1990 Yokohama Modern rumour

    The waterfall painting in the science room flows at night

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.

  • 1990 Fujisawa (a school) Modern rumour

    A voice in a staff toilet asked three times whether to put a red cloak on you

Records Library: Kanagawa

Places to visit in Kanagawa

  • Daiyūzan Saijōji 大雄山最乗寺 Shrine or temple Minamiashigara, Kanagawa — A Zen temple in a cedar forest, guarded by the monk who became a tengu, with giant iron sandals left as offerings.

Places to Visit