Kappa
河童（かっぱ）
A child-sized water yokai whose strength lives in the water held by the dish on its head.
- 1914
Tsushima
Folklore record
Crowds of kappa pass the inn at night on their way to the sea; harmless
長崎県
Yokai of Nagasaki
5 yokai with records here · Kyūshū · View on the map
Records in Nagasaki
Umi-bōzu
海坊主（うみぼうず）
One account describes a vast Buddha-like shape crossing ahead of a boat on a clear, windless day, then slowly thinning until it vanished.
- 1983
Sago, Tsushima
Folklore record
Umi-bōzu borrows the bailer; fishermen enshrine Funadama
Funayūrei
船幽霊（ふなゆうれい）
A ruined boat draws alongside at night and its crew asks for a scoop. Give them an ordinary one, and they may use it to fill your boat with seawater.
- 1932
Gotō Islands
Folklore record
Funayūrei never board over the stern, where Funadama faces
Mikoshi-nyūdō
見越入道（みこしにゅうどう）
A 1938 Nagasaki record warns of bamboo rustling over a night road and a looming figure that must be recognized aloud.
- 1938
Nagasaki
Folklore record
Bamboo rustles overhead; say 'I've seen through you' or it falls on you
Iso-onna
磯女（いそおんな）
A 1929 record from Mizuho in Nagasaki describes a wrestler who tried to speak to a black-haired woman sitting on a shore stone at night — and other accounts from the same coastline describe something else entirely under the same name.
- 1929
Mizuho, Unzen
Folklore record
Woman on a shore rock whose scream stopped a wrestler
- 1932
Gotō Islands
Folklore record
Human above the chest, ghostly below; attacks boats
- 1963
Ojika Island
Folklore record
Umihime-sama, one of the drowned, asks boatmen to carry souls ashore
Records Library: Nagasaki
- 1914 Kappa pass the inn at night on their way to the sea
- 1929 The woman on the rock whose scream stopped a wrestler
- 1932 Ghost boats, the umi-bōzu, and the half-ghostly iso-onna
- 1938 Bamboo rustling overhead, and the words that save you
- 1963 Umihime-sama asks the boatmen to carry souls ashore
- 1983 The umi-bōzu borrows the bailer and sinks the boat