Kappa
河童（かっぱ）
A child-sized water yokai whose strength lives in the water held by the dish on its head.
- 1913
Kikuchi District
Folklore record
Fills its dish before leaving the water; hit the head to spill it; fears blades
熊本県
Yokai of Kumamoto
4 yokai with records here · Kyūshū · View on the map
Records in Kumamoto
Inugami
犬神（いぬがみ）
A possessing spirit of western Japan with no agreed-upon body — and a label that excluded entire households from marriage and community life.
- 1976
Hitoyoshi
Folklore record
Ingame kept by certain houses; the inkaze most feared
Amabie
アマビエ
A printed sheet dated 1846 tells of a creature with long hair and a beak that rose from the sea off Higo, foretold six years of good harvests and an epidemic, and asked people to copy its picture and show it around.
- 1846
Higo coast (Kumamoto)
Print or picture
Broadsheet of a shining sea creature that foretold harvests and disease
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.
- 1950
Ashikita (Higo)
Folklore record
A yamawaro snaps brushwood all night beside a sleeping charcoal burner; an amulet of the Great Shrine stops it; no kiln on its path
- 1951
Tōyō, Yatsushiro (former Kawamata village)
Folklore record
Yamawaro help with mountain work, sing by night the songs heard by day, and bathe in the hut's tub, leaving an oily scum
Records Library: Kumamoto
Places to visit in Kumamoto
- The Kappa Landing Stone at Yatsushiro 河童渡来之碑（徳渕の津） Site