Nekomata
猫又（ねこまた）
A 1931 Kagawa record describes an aging cat whose tail divides in two and that rises to dance on its hind legs.
- 1992
Shintomi, Koyu District
Folklore record
Heavy cat trains in the mountains and returns as a nekomata
宮崎県
Yokai of Miyazaki
4 yokai with records here · Kyūshū · View on the map
Records in Miyazaki
Yamauba
山姥（やまうば）
A man carries a woven object home from the hills, and that night a woman's voice demands the return of her ashinaka.
- 1992
Kotozuka, Nobeoka
Folklore record
Lent dishes from a cave but never showed her face
Kasha
火車（かしゃ）
Kasha began as the Buddhist fire cart that came for sinners at the hour of death. By the late sixteenth century it was a thing in the thunderstorm that stole the dead from funerals, and only from about the late seventeenth century was it said to be a cat.
- 1992
Miyazaki
Folklore record
Bodies taken by the kasha in the middle of funerals, several places
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.
- 1999
Koyu district
Folklore record
The mountain Tarō, also called yamawarō, is the mountain god and changes places with the river Tarō on the first day of the second month