雪女，雪の精霊 · Echigo (Niigata) · 1928
Sōgi's yuki-onna, nearly transparent, gone when looked at
What the record says
The poet Sōgi, in Echigo, saw a yuki-onna with skin so pale it seemed transparent, in a single unlined white robe. When he tried to look closely she was gone. The people of the place told him the next day that she appeared only rarely, in years of heavy snow.
Our summary in English of the record as catalogued; the original card is in Japanese.
In our articles
Yuki-onna
雪女（ゆきおんな）
A pale woman seen on winter roads, sometimes deadly, sometimes harmless, and never described the same way everywhere.