Yokai Night Parade 百鬼夜行

徳島県

Yokai of Tokushima

4 yokai with records here · Shikoku · View on the map

Records in Tokushima

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.

  • Sea · Ship · Coast
  • Mixed

Danger 4/5 Editorial rating Danger rating 4 out of 5. This is an editorial rating, not a folklore measurement.

  • undated Awa–Tosa waters Legend or tale

    Thirty-metre Buddha-like shape on a calm sea

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.

  • Mountain · Forest · House
  • Mixed

Danger 3/5 Editorial rating Danger rating 3 out of 5. This is an editorial rating, not a folklore measurement.

  • 1962 Naka Folklore record

    Yamauba of the katsura tree who borrowed fire

Inugami

犬神（いぬがみ）

A possessing spirit of western Japan with no agreed-upon body — and a label that excluded entire households from marriage and community life.

  • House · Mountain · Field
  • Harmful

Danger 3/5 Editorial rating Danger rating 3 out of 5. This is an editorial rating, not a folklore measurement.

  • 1930 Tokushima Folklore record

    Inugami-suji households and marriage avoidance

Konaki-jiji

児啼爺（こなきじじい）

A 1938 record from the Miyoshi mountains of Tokushima gives an old man's appearance and an infant's cry, in a single line. The famous part — that it grows unbearably heavy once you pick it up — is not in it.

  • Mountain · Forest
  • Unknown

Danger 2/5 Editorial rating Danger rating 2 out of 5. This is an editorial rating, not a folklore measurement.

  • 1938 Miyoshi District (Yamashiro) Folklore record

    Old man deep in the mountains who cries like an infant

Records Library: Tokushima

Places to visit in Tokushima

  • The Konaki-jiji Statue at Fujikawa Valley 児啼爺の碑（藤川谷） Site Miyoshi (Yamashiro), Tokushima — A stone statue of the crying old man by a mountain road above the Ōboke gorge, in the valley where the 1938 record placed him.
  • Yokai Yashiki at Ōboke 妖怪屋敷と石の博物館（道の駅大歩危） Museum Miyoshi (Yamashiro), Tokushima — A hall of some seventy yokai figures made by the people of the Ōboke valleys from their own tales, at the roadside station in the gorge.

Places to Visit