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3/29/2015

Bath and Hot Spring

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- Onsen 河童温泉 Hot Spring
Kappa taking a bath お風呂 -


There are various hot springs and bath houses named after the Kappa.



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Kappa no Yu 河童の湯


. Kappa no yu かっぱの湯 Kappa Hot Spring . - Fukushima

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Aomori青森県
Kappa no Yu Hot Springs
Located in the Yagen Valley in the mountains near the top of Aomori Prefecture’s Shimokita Peninsula, Kappa no Yu’s location is as remote as it is possible to be without leaving Honshu. It’s tucked away in the side canyon of a tributary of the Ohatagawa River, the pool itself appears to have been - for the most part - hewn out of the rocky stream bank just a few feet above the clear waters of the tributary river below, and the wood and bamboo roof that shelters the pool from the worst of the elements all but disappears into the surrounding forest of deciduous trees. I can only imagine the glory of the place in the fall.
The water in Kappa no Yu comes straight out of the ground and is the clearest blue of any hot spring I’ve yet seen in Japan, and as if this cake didn’t have enough icing and cherries on it already, there’s no entry fee, apart from what it costs to get you there, and the Yagen Valley is functionally uninhabited. If you go to Kappa no Yu, you’ll probably have it all to yourself.
- source : en.japantravel.com



. Arima Hot Spring 有馬温泉 Arima Onsen .

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Kappa Tengoku - Kappa Paradise - Hakone 箱根
Outdoor baths in the wooded slope just above Yumoto Station. The wooden bath house is slightly run-down but remains atmospheric.
- source : www.japan-guide.com


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Nikko 日光



Kappa Kokeshi from Nikko 日光

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. Sarugakyo Onsen 猿ヶ京温泉 . Gunma 群馬県

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Serigazawa Onsen 芹ケ沢 - Fukushima 福島

「いい湯だなぁ」 Kappa enjoying a bath




source : カッパのロードスター


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. Onsen Hot Spring and Bath .
- Introduction -


. Legends about Onsen Hot Springs 温泉と伝説 .

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. Kappa densetsu 河童伝説, Kappa minwa 河童民話 - Legends - Introduction .

. Mingei 民芸 Regional Folk Art from Japan .

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3/18/2015

moss koke

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- koke 苔 moss and Kappa - Moos -


If horses eat a bit from the moss growing on the grave of Lord Ozumi 大積隆鎮 of Fukushima, a Kappa will not be able to pull them into water.

. Kappa legends from Fukushima .

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On the other hand,
there are many stone statues of Kappa overgrown with moss.




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Others look like a Kappa !



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long rain -
colorful moss grows
into a Kappa


Gabi Greve, 2015


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. WKD - koke 苔 moss .
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. Kappa densetsu 河童伝説, Kappa minwa 河童民話 - Legends - Introduction .

. Mingei 民芸 Regional Folk Art from Japan .

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Kappa History

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- Kappa before the Edo period -

Japanese Tales - Royall Tyler



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The kappa, a water goblin that has become almost the emblem of Japanese folklore,
is not to be found in medieval tale literature at all.
Above all, farmers and their preoccupations, so basic to the modern folktale, are rare in the older literature.
Although they do include popular elements, the medieval collections are not folk literature.
- source : books.google.co.jp

. Legends and Folktales from Japan - Introduction .




- source : 河童日本紀行

size of Kappa during history
During the Edo period it was still seen as about 150 cm, now it has gone down to 120 cm.

Some Kappa legends can be dated by the persons involved, names of a local lord or a famous priest.
Records are kept in temples, shrines, villages and old families.

Here are legends about the Kappa dating before 1600.

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Fukushima 福島県

. Gennō Shinshō 源翁心昭 Priest Genno Shinsho .
(1329 - 1400)


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Ibaraki 茨城県

. Tetsugi Jinja 手接神社 .
lit. "The Shrine of the Grafted Arm"
. . . some say it was toward the end of the Heian period, on a late afternoon, the Lord Serizawa 芹澤氏 was riding alone along the banks of a river.



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Kyushu 九州 

Kagoshima 鹿児島
. Toda Kannon 戸田観音 .
Lord Shibuya Tokushige Kedo-In 渋谷(祁答院)徳重, 1459


Kumamoto 熊本県 and Fukuoka 福岡県
. - Tanushimaru 田主丸 - Kumamoto and Fukuoka - .
九千坊 Kyusenbo - coming from China


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Miyagi 宮城県  

. Sakanoue no Tamuramaro 坂上田村麻呂 .
(758 - 811)

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. Mingei 民芸 Regional Folk Art from Japan .

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3/13/2015

Kappa Ishi stones

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- Kappa ishi 河童石 Kappa stone
Kappa iwa かっぱ岩 / 河童岩 Kappa boulder, Kappa rock
Kawadoo ishi 川童石 Kappa stone (river child stone) -


- - - - - There are various Kappa stones in Japan.
Akita
Fukushima
Miyazaki
Nagano
Nagasaki
Yamanashi

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. Akita 秋田県 .

Daisen town 大仙市 (near Yokote)

At the river pool near the bridge of Osanai village 土川心像の生内 there is a 河童石 stone where the Kappa likes to sit, with a dent in the stone.
In summer when the water gets less, the seat is quite visible and then gets forgotten.
Once in August there was a very strong rain and storm and the river pool was well flooded that even the top of the stone was hardly to be seen.
An old man 84 years of age living nearby remembered:
"Yes, it is like they say, the stone will be under water every 60 years."

Anyway, once upon a time
the home of 五郎右工門 Gorozaemon of the village kept horses and cared well for them. They even kept two very vigorous stallions, riding to the river pool morning and evening to wash them. Then one day in summer when they wanted to go back home one went wild with fear and gallopped into the horse barn. When the farmer looked, he saw that a Kappa was hanging onto the tail of the horse. They tried to get hold of the Kappa and catch him. The Kappa jumped into the fodder box and hid there.
But in the end with all the neighbours helping they got hold of the Kappa. His plate on the head had been almost dry and his power was gone.
He made the farmers understand with his best body language that he would not do any harm any more and they should let him go. So they did.
From that day on there had never been a drowning accident of children at this river pool.

- source : namahage.is.akita-u.ac.jp/monogatari

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Kawadoo ishi, Kawado-ishi 川童石 Kappa Stone (river child stone)

能代市 Noshiro town

Kawadoo 川童 Kawado, short for Kawa warawa かわわらわ, also Kawaero カワエロ (in Gifu), a local dialect for the Kappa.

Tanegawa no fuchi 種川の渕 Tanegawa River Pool

Once upon a time
there was a very rich farmer, 甚吉 Jinkichi, near the Tanegawa river who kept 40 horses.
One day after washing the horses at the Tanegawa river pool and trying to get them into the stable, the horses did not want to do what they did every day. When Jinkichi and his men looked closer, he saw a young Kappa crouching in a corner.
"Let's get him!" they shouted.
Then they told him all his misdeeds:
"You took the child of xyz, you killed the daughter of yxz, you also killed the horse of zyx . . . " and the Kappe admitted each one very docile and meek.
"And today you tried to pull a horse into the river, clinging to its tail, did you not?!"
But after all was said and made clear, the Kappa promised never to do any harm again to humans or animals and then they let him to.

The stone where he went back into the river is now called Kawado-ishi.

- source : namahage.is.akita-u.ac.jp/monogatari


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Fukushima 福島県

大沼郡 Onuma Gun 金山町 Kanayamamachi

At the river Nojirigawa 野尻川 there was a Kappa stone.
At the river pool called Araifuchi 洗い淵 people come to wash the horses.
Then some day a Kappa hang on to the tail of a horse.
The farmers made him promise to never come higher than the stone at the side of the bridge and he signed a contract about this. Then he could go.
But eventually this stone was washed away during a flooding.
The contract which was written with the blood from the Kappa biting off his finger had been kept in the Kannon hall 観音様のお堂, but this was also lost.


Nowadays there is a hot spring with a Kappa legend:
金山町 玉梨温泉のかっぱの湯 Kappa no Yu



About 1700 years ago, the villagers had been in distress from the malicious deeds of a Kappa.
A mendicant monk passed the village and tried to help them. He engraved ritual Sanskrit letters on a large stone 大石に梵語 to ward off the Kappa.

At this hot spring hotel, the story has become the origin of it's name
Kappa Hot Spring かっぱの湯.
- source : www5c.biglobe.ne.jp/~angel-hi

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. 親河童の石、子河童の石 stone of Father and Son Kappa..
石川郡 Ishikawa gun 平田村 Hirata village

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Miyazaki 宮崎県

. Kappa Iwa 河童岩 The Kappa Rock .


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Nagano 長野県   

東筑摩郡 Higashi Chikuma gun 生坂村 Ikusaka village

Once a Kappa jumped from the かっぱ岩 Kappa boulder to grab a horse the villagers were washing, but he got caught himself.
The Kappa pleaded to let him go free and he would grant them one wish.
So the landlord said: 朱塗りの膳 "Bring me 20 food trays in red laquer, then I will pardon you.!
The next morning, the trays were delivered and the Kappa got free.


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Nagasaki 長崎県 

. Kappa Jizoo かっぱ地蔵 / 河童地蔵 Kappa and Jizo Bosatsu in Nagasaki .

Nagasaki Suijin-Sha 水神社 Shrine of the Water Deity
Suijin Jinja 水神神社
One of the five great shrines in Nagasaki.
本河内水源池 - at 長崎市本河内町

. - suijin 水神 water deity -
God of Water, Mizu no Kamisama 水の神様 .


donku ishi どんく石 Kappa Stone


The Kappa stone for the deity Kawatachi Kami 川立神(かわたちかみ)

Once upon a time
people depended on rain water in their daily life. During a drought, plants and animals withered and humans had to perform rain rituals (amagoi) to get help.
In the Suijin shrine in our village the Shinto priest planted a stone and used the color of the moss to divine when the rain would come 苔の色で降雨.

The river 中島川 Nakashimagawa, which is a long river in Nagasaki prefecture, was a very clean river with clear drinkable water and people relied on it for all things at home and in the fields..
Then more homes where build, more people came to live here and the water became dirty. Even the Kappa, which lived upstream, could not live in the filthy water any more.
So they sometimes stormed into the human habitats and devastated the crops and things.

Since olden times the shrine had pleaded with the authorities to take care and keep the water clean. Every year on an auspicious day in May the priest invited the Kappa, gave them food and drink and entertained them like special guests - this is a special event even now 珍しい行事.
The priests caring for the temple have all been from the 渋江家 Shibue family since generations.
Some say they descend from the line of King 栗隈王 / 栗前王(くりくまのおおきみ) Kurikuma no Okimi (? - 676) .

The inner sanctuary of the shrine was cut off with sacred ropes and only the Kappa were allowed to come in there and enjoy themselves with food and drink. Some say the Shinto priests were able to see the Kappa having their feast.
The Kappa shouted with joy - kii kii - and the sound of the plates on their head was to be heard outside.
During this feast, they had to prepare a dish with bamboo shoots at any cost, with bamboo picked by the priest and only the most soft and juicy pieces offered to the kappa.
The old dry parts of the bamboo were cut into rings 竹の子の輪切り and offered to look at.

One priest had once heard the Kappa complain:
"Oh dear, these humans must have strong and hard teeth to chew the hard parts of bamboo!"

But anyway, the Kappa have since then stopped to do malicious deeds in the village.
And every time on the night before there are special visitors to the shrine or during a shrine festival, the priests places a letter on the Kappa stone, asking the Kappa to bring food 河童の献立:
"Dear Kappa san, tomorrow is a special day and we need to prepare a feast.
Please bring this and that vegetable and fish, please!"
And indeed,
next morning the food was presented on the stone - the Kappa had done well.

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. A story from Nagasaki, Nakashimagawa river
長崎市桜馬場町の中島川 and Maruyama Koen Park 丸川公園 .


. Nakashimagawa Matsuri 中島川まつり Nakashimagawa Festival   .
- beginning of May


. Nagasaki - Kappa stories of this BLOG .

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Yamanashi 山梨県

韮崎市 Nirasaki shi 藤井町 Fujiicho

A Kappa came every night to the outhouse of a farmhouse and reached out (for the shirikodama anus treasure). So the farmer one night cut off the hand.
The Kappa came back and got his hand back in exchange for medicine to heal wounds.
There is a Kappa stone related to this story.

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3/07/2015

rice offerings

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- buppan 仏飯 Buddhist rice offerings - 
and other things a Kappa dislikes and fears 嫌物

imu 忌む things a Kappa has to avoid



Most families make a food offering every morning at the altar of the ancestors.
The ancestor deity enjoys the rice offering by looking and smelling at it.
After the offering is made to the ancestors and deities, it is eaten in gratitude by humans.
Rice is never wasted, not even a single grain of it.

When a human eats rice offerings, there emanate strong rays from his eyes. The Kappa is afraid of them and runs away. He can also not win at sumo wrestling with someone having eaten rice offerings.

There are many stories in Kyushu about the power of humans and even animals, after eating the rice offerings. and the Garappa is running away.

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A story from Nagasaki, Nakashimagawa river
長崎市桜馬場町の中島川 and Maruyama Koen Park 丸川公園

The river is also called 魔の川, a deadly river.
Until about 1918 the most favorite place for swimming was a pond for fire extinguishing purposes, about 12 meters long and 6 meters wide. The pond was 2 meters deep and had a stone wall around it of about 2 meters height. Trees were planted around it and it was good to relax here in summer.



But there were also water accidents and five people died here. At that time there were rumours of Kappa and Kawauso 川獺 otters pulling children into the water, so, to be on the safe side, all swimming was forbidden.

Grandfathers of the town still tell their children:
"If you eat the rice offerings and go to the river after that,
the Kappa will not be able to pull you in."
- source : eonet.ne.jp/~nagasaki


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- - - - - Other things that a Kappa does not like

ami 網 net
In some parts of Kagoshima the Garappe does not like nets. So the humans can wear a net to protect themselves when working along riversides.


ha 人間の歯 human teeth
In some regions in Kyushu Kappa is said to dislike human teeth.


hai、butsudan no hai 仏壇の灰 ashes from the family altar
The ashes of Buddhist offerings of incense are rubbed on the human body before starting a sumo wrestling match with a Kappa. Then the human will win.

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hi 火 fire
The water in the sara plate on a Kappa's head get dry, if there is fire. If there is not enough water in the plate, the Kappa gets weak.

. Kappa hi yaroo 河童火やろう "Kappa I will give you fire" .
legend from Akita

. Kappa hi o yaroo 河童火をやろう "Kappa I will give you fire" .
legend from Fukushima

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kanamono 金物, kinzoku 金属 things made of metal

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The Kappa’s fear of metal, especially iron can be traced to the role of megalithic beliefs in folklore.
An example of this would be the Chinese water spirit, chiao-dragon, who is frightened away by anything made of iron or the miners of Halmahera who would boil iron in their drinking water prior to consumption . . .
(Ishida and Yoshida 1950, 34).
- source : Ken Lim

If you hang some metal things like a sickle or a spade 鎌や鋤 at the door of the horse barn, the Kappa can not come in. Other people hang metal nails on the eaves. Farmers carry a metal sickle to protect themselves on the wet rice fields.
The Kappa especially does not like the flimmering and glittering of metal things in the sunshine.

In some regions in Kyushu it is customary after digging an irrigation pond to throw some metal things like a hatchet into it. This will prevent the Kappa from living in this pond and doing harm to the farmers.

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Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩 Kannon

. Garappa Don ガラッパドン of Kyushu .


. kasuri 絣 Kimono with Ikat pattern .


koke 苔 moss
If horses eat a bit from the moss growing on the grave of Lord Ozumi 大積隆鎮, a Kappa will not be able to pull them into water.
. Kappa legends from Fukushima .



. koojin 荒神 Kojin deity, "rough deity" .



. michikiri, michi-kiri 道切 cutting off a road with amulets .
to prevent a kappa or yokai from entering a village


. ogara おがら / 苧殻 hemp reeds .
. . . . . a kappa would die if he has to eat his rice with chopsticks made from
ogara hemp reeds - - - and asa 麻 hemp - 鹿の角や麻を忌む

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sasage ささげ (豆の一種) ササゲ sasage beans
Vigna unguiculata,  十六大角豆 cowpea

才津川は、田沢湖町では、 “さずけ”とも呼ばれているそうです。
“小豆”と“ささげ”は違う豆ですから、/“さずけ”と“ささげ”とは関係ありません。
- source : www.rg-youkai.com/tales

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shika no tsuno 鹿の角 deer horn

Seems to be related to his fear of metal.
柳田國男の『山島民譚集(一)- Yagagita Kunio
河童が金属を忌む / 鹿の角や麻を忌む
- source : sunekotanpako

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There are legends in Tosa about this. If someone has to go into a Kappa river, he better fixes some deer horn on his body to prevent the Kappa from killing him and taking his liver away.

新版河童の世界 - By 石川純一郎
- source : books.google.co.jp

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Wakamiya Jinja 若宮神社
伊予国(愛媛県)の高山城主、宇都宮正綱 Ehime
The lord of the Takayama castle was Lord Utsunomiya Masatsuna (1447 - 1477)

The shrine is dedicated to Masatsuna.





Komainu statues of a Kappa at the Shrine gate

Once upon a time
the Lord was on his way home late in the evening. Suddenly felt something jumping on his back and clinging to it. He tried to get rid of it, but it clung strongly.
Yes, indeed, it was a Kappa in great pain, with tears in his eyes, who pleased with the Lord to carry him for a while.
The gentle Lord let the Kappa have its way.
On the next morning, in front of the castle gate, there was a large sea bream as an offering for him. Surely this was a present from the Kappa he had helped last night.

And then one day
a retainer fixed the horns of a deer at the gate to make it easier for the fish to be offered. But - oh wonder - there were no more fish from that day on.
The Kappa must really dislike the horns of a deer very much ! 河童は鹿の角が大嫌い.
The End
- source : sinsi/fukuda/kappa


. Three Legends from Wakamiya Jinja .


. komainu, koma-inu 河童狛犬 Kappa as lion dog .


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tadejiru, tade-jiru 蓼汁 soup from the water pepper plant
Polygonum hydropiper. The leaves are squeezed for a pungent hot soup.

from Kappa no Aramitama 河童の荒魂
Aramitama is the "rough spirit" of Amaterasu ōmikami.

At the riverbank 大淵 at Kurumeki town 久留女木 in Shizuoka a young monk from the Dragon Shrine / Dragon Palace helped the busy farmers with their work in the fields. The farmers offered him some soup from the water pepper plant 蓼汁, which he did not really like at all, and he died.
This gentle Kappa was kind enough to help the farmers.
- source : www.nichibun.ac.jp


A legend from Aichi 愛知県, Chita Hanto peninsula 知多半島 and Shikushima
The legend tells of the God of the Hearth, 竈神 Kamadogami and a Kappa.



Once upon a time
a Kappa lived on the lid of the kitchen stove 竈の蓋 of a good family. This Kappa, also callen Enko 猿侯, helped the family with their work. One day in a very hot summer, they prepared a soup from water pepper, which is a speciality of this region, and offered it to the Kappa. The soup was very bitter and the Kappa did not like it. Angry, he ran away.
After that the good fortune of the family declined rapidly.
- source : forumdoi.exblog.jp - カッパ・猿侯

. Deity of the Kitchen and the Hearth 竈神 .


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toomorokoshi トウモロコシ / とうもろこし maize, corn

河童 首が落ちた話 
By 芥川龍之介
- source : books.google.co.jp

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takenoko 竹の子 bamboo shoots

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story of Yagoro kappa which "Even the best swimmers can drown" was derived from, story that it was if kappa dislikes bamboo shoot,
- source : www.kurume-hotomeki -
Kuruppa - Kappa from Kuruma


Kappa no kondate 河童の献立 menu from Kappa

水神社にお客さんがあるときは、いつも前の日に、「河童の献立」と紙に書いて、
この石にと感心したそうです。「人間というものは、歯の強いモノだ」ベている神主さんを見て、ほんものの竹の子を そなえ、河童どもの皿の上には、老い竹の輪切りを盛ってあったので、平気で喰河
ごちそうの中には、かならず竹の子の輪切りがあったのですが、このとき神主さんのものだけは、 ...
日本の民話 - Volume 48 - Page 55


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This needs to be explored further.
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tsuba, daeki 唾, 唾液 spittle

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It also works the other way, people dislike and fear the Kappa.

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Fear of kappa is phobia of kappa
The fear or phobia of kappa can produce both physical and physiological symptoms. In some cases, the physical symptoms are similar to those associated with typical anxiety disorder such as sweating, nervousness, nausea, rapid heartbeat, difficulty breathing, increased blood pressure, and tightness in the chest. Some psychological symptoms may include panic, overwhelming fear or dread, as well as general emotional distress. Depression symptoms or depression disorder may also accompany the phobia of kappa or those like it. The depression could be a symptom of the phobia or an effect of the phobia and how it can change a person's day to day life.

A phobia like this one can affect anyone of any age, sex, race, or background. Some people may be more prone to phobias like this one or may experience more severe symptoms than others. Fear is a natural human feeling and anyone can develop a phobia.

The phobia of kappa can be treated.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is usually the most effective treatment for a phobia like this one. It is also used to treat certain anxiety disorders, depression disorders, and mood disorders. Through cognitive behavioral therapy, a person affected by this phobia will essentially "learn" to not fear kappa anymore. This will be achieved by changing the behavior of the person and the person's brain when they come in contact with or see kappa. This can be achieved without the use of anxiety medication, eventually a full recovery from this phobia is possible.

Commonly, people do not understand why they have a phobia of kappa. Fears like these can cause embarrassment and further anxiety because it's hard to understand why phobias like this arise. Many people may feel silly or fear that others will judge them for being afraid.

Fear and anxiety are natural parts of life, everyone is afraid of something and it is common for people to avoid the things that they are afraid of, especially when they feel what they fear may be potentially dangerous to them or those they care for. In the same sense, it is common for those with a phobia of kappa to avoid situations where they will be near them or see them.

Phobias like the phobia of kappa vary from person to person, some people who suffer from this will have severe anxiety attacks because of it and some will only have minor anxiety. What triggers this phobia will also vary depending on the person who suffers from it. Some only feel this fear when they are near kappa while some experience anxiety attacks associated with this phobia from simply seeing a picture of a kappa or thinking about one.

It's suggested that a person suffering from a phobia of kappa take steps to begin conquering this fear. For example, most who have this fear understand that it is illogical. They have no real or logical reason to feel this crippling fear. Even so, it continues to frighten them and affect their day to day lives. Beginning to understand this fear is a step in the right direction. Understanding a phobia is one of the first steps in being able to recover from it. After that, receiving treatment from a licensed specialist to help battle a phobia like this one is one of the best things a person can do. It may also be helpful to address other problems a person may have like anxiety, depression, or other phobias.
- source : phobiaof.com/kappax


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. Garappa ガラッパ Garappa Don ガラッパドン of Kyushu .


. Buddhist food offerings (onjiki kuyoo 飲食 供養) .
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. Kappa densetsu 河童伝説, Kappa minwa 河童民話 - Legends - Introduction .

. Mingei 民芸 Regional Folk Art from Japan .

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One of the things a Kappa does not like at all.
Gourds always swim on the surface of water, they are like a life belt, preventing things from sinking to the bottom of the water as easy pray for a Kappa.

There are various kinds of gourds in Japan.


source : amazon.co.jp

河童之図(ひょうたん)Kappa painting : the Gourd
Honjoo Motoaki 本庄基晃 Honjo Motoaki


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Although the kappa is attracted to some foods of the uri, or melon, grouping - such as kyuri and kabocha - it is clear that it has an aversion to hyotan (gourds), which are also of the melon group.
Michael Dylan Foster

. Kappa and kyuuri キュウリ Kyuri, cucumber, Gurken .


. Things a Kappa dislikes or fears .

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. - Mizuchi, Medochi 蛟 water yokai monster - .

Early references
The ancient chronicle Nihongi contains the earliest references to mizuchi. Under the 67th year of the reign of Emperor Nintoku (conventionally dated 379 A.D.), it is mentioned that in central Kibi Province, at a fork on Kawashima River (川嶋河, old name of Takahashi River (高梁川) in Okayama Prefecture), a great water serpent or dragon (大虬) dwelled and would breathe or spew out its venom, poisoning and killing many passersby.

A man named Agatamori (県守), ancestor of the Kasa-no-omi (笠臣) clan, came up to the pool of the river, and threw in three calabashes which floated to the surface of the water. He then challenged the beast, saying he would quit the spot if it could sink these gourds, but slay it if it failed. The beast transformed into a deer and tried unsuccessfully to sink them, whereby the man slew the monster. The record goes on to say: "..He further sought out the water-dragon's fellows. Now the tribe of all the water-dragons filled a cave in the bottom of the pool. He slew them every one, and the water of the river became changed to blood. Therefore that water was called the pool of Agatamori"
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Kappa Muko-Iri 河童婿入り Kappa as son in law, The Kappa Bridegroom
hyootan and hechima 瓢箪やへちま


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Naturally the woman is appalled and says she will be docile and obedient if the kappa can keep some gourds submerged. Try as he might he can’t and exhausted by the whole affair wanders off. So does the marriage.



The Kyūri vs. the Hyōtan – the Cucumber vs. the Gourd – 黄瓜 vs. 瓢箪:
A Freudian Interpretation


Michael Dylan Foster,
mentioned above, posits a completely Freudian approach to why kappas like cucumbers and are put off by gourds: Cucumbers are 98% water while gourds are hollow and dry. “In shape and in moisture content the cucumber clearly represents a fertility symbol . . . ” while the hyōtan is a threat to that potency. Another possibility is that both plants represent fertility because “ . . . kyūri is a symbol of the male aspect while the hyōtan, with its womb-like nature (and the fact that hyōtan often contain seeds), represents the female aspect.
Just as the kappa loses its potency upon spilling the water in its sara [the bowl-like shape at the top of its head], so the hyōtan, as a dry vessel that can contain and carry away liquid, may also represent to the kappa a potential loss of moisture and potency. The same sort of wet-dry . . .” hypothesis appears among the Indo-European and Semitic cultures.
- source : printsofjapan.wordpress.com - Vegder

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. Manga Nihon Mukashibanashi まんが日本昔ばなし
河童 folktales about the Kappa .


kappa to hyootan かっぱとひょうたん Kappa and the Gourd
Japanese version of the above English story.

河童が娘を嫁にしようとするも、娘のほうが一枚上手だった
Kappa as bridegroom and the clever woman

昔、ひょうたんのような山のふもとに、貧しい爺さんと娘が住んでおりました。二人はその山に田んぼを作っていましたが、近くの淵に住む河童が田の水をすっかり抜いてしまいました。
爺さんは淵から水を運んでみたが、焼け石に水で、途方に暮れていました。しょんぼりしている爺さんの前に、河童が現れ「おまえの娘を嫁にくれれば水を引いてやる」と持ちかけました。
翌日、約束通り田んぼには水が入り、枯れかけていた苗も元通り元気になりました。 爺さんは河童との約束を果たすべく、娘にわけを話して嫁に行ってもらうようお願いしました。 泣いて頼む爺さんに、快く河童の所へ嫁入りすることを決心し、大きなひょうたん持って淵にでかけました。



淵に着いた娘は、「まず先にこのひょうたんを淵の中へ運んでください」と河童にお願いしました。しかし、その大きなひょうたんの浮力はすごく、河童はどんなに頑張っても淵の中に沈める事が出来ませんでした。河童は仕方なく娘を嫁にもらう事をあきらめ、田の水を抜いたのは自分だと白状し、淵の底へ逃げ帰っていきました。
それからというもの、河童はいつも田んぼに水を引いてくれるようになり、稲も丈夫に育つようになりました。娘はそのお礼にと、河童の大好物のきゅうりを淵に流してあげたそうです
- source : nihon.syoukoukai.com

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. hechima 糸瓜, 蛮瓜,布瓜 sponge gourd .


. カッパ封じ地蔵 Jizo subduing the Kappa - Legend .

Mountain Priest 堂丸総学 Domaru Sogaku heared about the water shortage and came to Mount Takatosan. He had been involved with wicked Kappa before and fought them with leaves of the gourd ヘチマの葉.
So he thought he could help the people by subduing the Kappa here too.

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Hyotan-ike no Kappa 瓢箪池の河童 Kappa of the Gourd-Pond

Once upon a time
a Kappa lived all alone in this pond. He longed for a friend all the time.
This is a stroy I heard from my grandpa.
The bad boys had to walk along this pond on the way to and from school.

. kappa ehon 河童絵本 picture books for children .

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kappa dorei 河童土鈴 clay bell with Kappa
- source : kappakyoto

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. WKD - hyootan 瓢箪 gourd .
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. Kappa densetsu 河童伝説, Kappa minwa 河童民話 - Legends - Introduction .

. Mingei 民芸 Regional Folk Art from Japan .

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ehon picture book

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Hyotan-ike no Kappa 瓢箪池の河童 Kappa of the Gourd-Pond

. hyootan 瓢箪 Hyotan gourd, calabash and Kappa .

Many legends ond stories are available as picture books.
Other as manga or here

. - Manga Nihon Mukashibanashi まんが日本昔ばなし
Old Stories from Japan
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. Kappa densetsu 河童伝説, Kappa minwa 河童民話 - Legends - Introduction .

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Kappa living in quiet forest

This story is set around a pond in picturesque rural Japan.
- source : itunes.apple.com



河童のカパと静かな森 Kappa named Kapa


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Kappa no gochisoo カッパのごちそう The Feast of the Kappa
A young boy meets a Kappa in a river . . .

阿部夏丸 Text / 渡辺 有一 pictures / 童心社

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Kappa no aisatsu カッパのあいさつ Greeting of a Kappa
高畠那生 / 長崎出版

ミドッパとアカッパ Midoppa and Akappa (Green Kappa and Red Kappa)
stand back to back to greet each other . . .
and then some happenings . . .

- source : www.asajikan.jp/asabijin

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- Picture books with Kappa
- source : www.ehonnavi.net/ehon

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. Kaibutsu Ehon 怪物絵本 Illustrated Book of Monsters - 1881.
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Kappamura village

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Kappamura, Kappa-mura, kappa mura かっぱ村 Kappa Village

There are various Kappa vilages in Japan.


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Chiba

Chiba 千葉かっぱ村 Chiba Kappamura
- 銚子かっぱ村 Choshi Kappamura
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Fukuoka

宮田町河童村 Miyata Kappa Village -

Yoshida Ryuushiroo 吉田龍四郎 Yoshida Ryushiro
- Author and 宮田町河童村村長 - Fukuoka, Mayor of the Kappa Village


- mizu to koora 水と甲羅 Water and the tortoise shell

カッパの復権  舌間信夫 - 2005年1月20日
- - mizu to koora - 水と甲羅

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Near the Village Fire station, Kappa is calling out to watch for fire - 火の用心.

Kappa Village has been closed in 2006 - 宮田文化村 - 河童福祉の里
平成18年3月閉村 / 鞍手郡宮田町本城隠谷
- source : fuji.pro.tok2.com/kappa


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Iwate

Michinoku Iwate Kappamura みちのく岩手かっぱ村
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Okinoshima Kappa Village 隠岐の島 河童村



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Fukushima, Tamura Town 福島県田村市



田村市船引『工芸の里かっぱ村』 Kogei no Sato - Kappamura

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- source : kazemeguri.blog.fc2.com


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