船幽霊，海坊主，磯女 · Gotō Islands, Nagasaki · 1932
Ghost boats, the umi-bōzu, and the half-ghostly iso-onna
What the record says
Ghost boats and the umi-bōzu ask to borrow a ladle; unless you knock the bottom out before lending it, they pour water into your boat and sink it. Funayūrei never climb aboard over the stern, because Funadama-sama, the boat's guardian, faces that way. The iso-onna is human from the breasts up and streams away like a ghost below, and she too attacks boats.
Our summary in English of the record as catalogued; the original card is in Japanese.
In our articles
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.
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.
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.