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- KAPPA - 河童 / かっぱ /　カッパ - types -
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- mummy - miira 河童のミイラ mummy of a Kappa, Mumie -



From the Matsuuraichi Sake brewery in Saga, Kyushu 佐賀県- 松浦一酒造
312 Yamashirocho Kusuku, Imari, Saga Prefecture 849-4251

「河童の酒蔵」Matsuura Ichi - The Kappa sake brewery
According to a company brochure, the mummified kappa was discovered inside a wooden box that carpenters found hidden in the ceiling when replacing the roof over 50 years.
Reckoning the creature was an old curiosity their ancestors had passed down for generations, the company owners built a small altar and enshrined the kappa mummy as a river god.



- source : matsuuraichi.com

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Monster mummies of Japan
Zengyōji (善行寺) temple in the city of Kanazawa (Ishikawa prefecture) is home to the mummified head of a three-faced demon. Legend has it that a resident priest discovered the mummy in a temple storage chamber in the early 18th century. Imagine his surprise.
Nobody knows where the demon head came from, nor how or why it ended up in storage.

The mummified head has two overlapping faces up front, with another one (resembling that of a kappa) situated in back. The temple puts the head on public display each year around the spring equinox.

- Kappa mummies
Like the mermaid mummies, many kappa (river imp) mummies are thought to have been crafted by Edo-period artists using parts of animals ranging from monkeys and owls to stingrays.
- photo - Kappa mummy at the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden (Netherlands)
This mummified kappa, which now resides in a Dutch museum, appears to consist of various animal parts put together in a seamless whole. It is believed to have been created for the purpose of carnival entertainment in the Edo period.

Another mummified kappa can be found at Zuiryūji temple in Osaka. The 70-centimeter long humanoid purportedly dates back to 1682.
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source : pinktentacle.com





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. Kitano Tenmangu - Fukuoka 福岡県の北野天満宮 .
has a mummy of the arm / hand of a Kappa
- kahaku no te 河伯の手 / kappa no te 河童の手


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atama 河童の頭 - 明石市立文化博物館
The sara plate can be take off. The mouth is always closed.


Ibaraki
河童の手 旧満蔵寺 茨城 - Hand of Kappa
霞ヶ関に棲息していた河童の手と伝えられる。手の甲には緻密な毛が密集し、水掻きがある。

Kumamoto
河童の手 志岐八幡宮 熊本 - Hand of Kappa
天草の志岐八幡宮。伝わる河童の手には水掻きがある。悪さをして村人を困らせていた河童をこらしめるために、両手を切り落としたが、懇願するので左手は返したと伝えられている。

Nagasaki
河童の手 温泉山一乗院 長崎 - Hand of Kappa
雲仙は昔、温泉(うんぜん)と書いた。温泉山は行基によって大宝元年(701)に開山されたのが始まり。伝説の僧赤峰法印が諏訪の池に棲む悪い河童と戦う事になり、どちらも死力をつくして争った。山へ逃げた法印を追ってきた河童が、湧きのぼる地獄の熱気で頭の皿の水分がなくなり、ばったり倒れたその時、もぎ取った手だと伝え

Tokyo
河童の手 曹源寺 東京 - Hand of Kappa
天明年間（1786年頃）この付近は大雨毎に一帯が洪水となったため、合羽商を営む合羽屋喜八が、私財を投じて水はけ工事を行った。喜八の義挙に感動した隅田川の河童が、工事を手伝ったという言い伝えが残っている。河童の手は、鋭い爪と水掻きがあり、箱書きには「水虎の手」と記されている。


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- - - - - さいたま川の博物館 Saitamagawa Museum

蓋の表には「永嶽山水天之神身云」、箱身の底には「川太郎之右之手此ヲ所持スル人愛敬多呪力ヲ得ル」と記されている。


河童の手 個人蔵 熊本 - Hand of Kappa
親指と人差し指が欠けているが左手で、水掻きがある。切り傷や打撲などの薬材として、村民に請われるままに削って与えた。
指一本。甲は灰色の毛、掌は指紋が見られる

- source : kizakura

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Pink Tentacle about the Kappa - Monsters & Magic in Japan
Kappa, arguably Japan's most well-known creature of legend, are mischievous river imps notorious for luring people -- particularly children -- into the water to drown and eat them. They smell like fish, enjoy cucumbers and sumo, and are said to be very courteous despite their malicious tendencies.

Although kappa are typically about the size of a child and greenish in color, they can vary widely in appearance. They frequently have a turtle-like shell and scaly skin, but sometimes their skin is moist and slick, or coated in fur. Most walk upright on their hind legs, but they are occasionally seen on all fours. Regardless of body type, the top of the kappa's head usually features a bowl-shaped depression containing water. The water inside this bowl is the source of the kappa's power.

The Edo period (1603 to 1867) saw some serious scientific literature devoted to the study of these creatures. Suikokouryaku (1820), for example, is a compendium of kappa-related information gathered from a variety of sources from Japan and China. The book, which is housed in the Iwase Bunko Library, includes kappa sketches by artist Kurimoto Tanshu. Here are a few.
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The kappa on the left, sketched by Ito Chobei, was captured during the Meiwa period (1764 to 1772) in Edo, somewhere in present-day Tokyo's Edogawa ward. When the creature was shown to Ota Chogen, a noted herbalist of the time, he identified it as a kappa -- he happened to have a kappa sketch with him that showed a creature with strikingly similar features. According to the text in the book, this kappa measured 60 cm (2 ft) tall and had slippery skin like that of a catfish.

The middle picture above shows a type of kappa with no shell, and the picture on the right shows a kappa that was caught in a net in Mito, Japan in 1801. This kappa had a prominent chest, a crooked back and three anuses.
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Later in the Edo period, an illustrated guide to 12 types of kappa (Suiko juni-hin no zu) was produced based on information taken from Suikokouryaku. A portion of this document is shown above. Check out the complete, high-resolution version here.
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Ito Keisuke, a well-known man of medicine and prolific natural history artist in the Edo period, sometimes included depictions of mysterious creatures with his animal drawings -- like the kappa on the left above, for example. The middle picture shows a kappa that was observed in one of the moats around Edo castle in the late 18th century. The picture on the right shows a kappa observed in the early 17th century in what is now the city of Hita in Oita prefecture (Kyushu). This kappa looked sort of like a turtle standing on its hind legs, and it had a depression on its head, webbed fingers, and splotches on its chest and abdomen.
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The neneko (or neko) kappa, shown on the left above, was sketched by Akamatsu Sotan in his 1855 work entitled Tonegawa zushi ("Illustrated History of the Tone River"). This kappa was known to move to a new location along the river each year, causing trouble wherever it went.

The image on the right shows a kappa scroll and kappa hand belonging to Sougenji (Sogen-Ji, a.k.a. Kappa-dera, or "kappa temple") located in the Ueno-Asakusa area of Tokyo. The temple is one of countless places in Japan that has stories and legends of kappa associated with it. According to this temple's legend, the surrounding area was once a basin with poor drainage, making it prone to flooding. A local raincoat maker (the Japanese word for "raincoat" is "kappa") took it upon himself to construct a series of drainage ditches, which he was able to complete with the help of a kappa living in the Sumida River. It is said that people fortunate enough to lay eyes on this kappa were blessed with success in business.
source : Edo-period kappa sketches


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. Sokushinbutsu, the Living Mummies of Japan .
- Miira 即身仏のミイラ - Introduction -

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