Yokai of Okayama

Records in Okayama

Sunekosuri

脛擦り（すねこすり）

A naturalist writing a national dictionary of yokai in 1935 gave the Sunekosuri of Oda district about one line: dog shaped, on rainy nights, brushing between a traveller's legs as it passes. Everything else you have read about it came later.

Road
Neutral

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1935 Oda District (Ibara) Folklore record
Dog-shaped thing that brushes between your legs on rainy nights

Nurarihyon

滑瓢（ぬらりひょん）

A long-headed old man stepping from a palanquin in the Edo scrolls and Sekien's 1776 print, a floating ball off Okayama, and the supreme-commander title added in the twentieth century.

House · Sea · Road
Unknown

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1984 Seto Inland Sea coast (Bisan Strait and Kojima Bay) Folklore record
A head-sized ball floating on the sea that sinks when grabbed and surfaces out of reach; counted among the umi-bōzu

Places to visit in Okayama

Kibitsu Shrine 吉備津神社 Shrine or temple Okayama, Okayama — The great shrine of the Kibi plain, where the head of the oni Ura is buried under the kettle whose rumble tells fortunes.
Kinojō, the Oni's Castle 鬼ノ城 Site Sōja, Okayama — An ancient hilltop fortress of stone ramparts above the Kibi plain, the castle of the oni Ura in the tale.

Places to Visit