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.
- 1986
Kunisaki
Folklore record
Sound by wells and pools, explained as a weasel
大分県
2 yokai with records here · Kyūshū · View on the map
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.
Sound by wells and pools, explained as a weasel
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.
Called yamawara, yama-aro or seko; in many districts the kappa that climbs the mountain at the autumn equinox