Yuki-onna
雪女（ゆきおんな）
A pale woman seen on winter roads, sometimes deadly, sometimes harmless, and never described the same way everywhere.
- 1939
Daitō-dake above Sakunami
Folklore record
Hunter's son told 'don't make a sound'; shut your eyes and run
宮城県
Yokai of Miyagi
4 yokai with records here · Tōhoku · View on the map
Records in Miyagi
Bakeneko
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.
- 1956
Miyagi
Folklore record
Cat that speaks after long life
Okuri-inu
送り犬（おくりいぬ）
A 1936 Gifu account describes a mountain dog that follows a traveler all the way to his door — and leaves only after salt and a word of thanks.
- undated
Miyagi
Folklore record
Okuri-inu traditions
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.
- 1979
Sendai
Modern rumour
Escaped hospital patient version