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.
- 1931
Chino
Folklore record
Harmless snow spirit that lays felled trees across the valley
長野県
Yokai of Nagano
4 yokai with records here · Chūbu · View on the map
Records in Nagano
Kamaitachi
鎌鼬（かまいたち）
In Nagano in 1955 the kamaitachi was a weasel so fast that no one had ever seen it — known only by the clean cut it leaves on a stumbling traveler's shin.
- 1955
Nagano
Folklore record
Painless cut on a windy road
Azuki-arai
小豆洗い（あずきあらい）
A bean-washing sound repeats beside a dark stream, but the person making it cannot be found.
- 1938
Kitasaku District
Folklore record
Bean-washing sound at the water's edge
- 1943
Suwa
Folklore record
Boy who vanished when spoken to; beans heard at the same spot
- 1943
Higashichikuma District
Folklore record
Washer with a black towel over its head at the stream
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.
- undated
Toyoshina (now Azumino)
Modern rumour
A school where red cloak or blue cloak was asked, remembered from the mid-1930s in a collection of 1987
Records Library: Nagano
Places to visit in Nagano
- Kinasa Folk Museum and the Demon Woman Momiji 鬼無里ふるさと資料館と鬼女紅葉の里 Museum