Kappa - The Kappapedia

1/14/2015

Haiku and Senryu

. - Haiku and Senryu about Yokai monsters - . 　

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河童の恋する宿や夏の月
kawataro no koi suru yado ya natsu no tsuki

in a lodging
where the kappa is in love -
summer moon

. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .

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The Buson Zenshu has a rubi giving Kawataro for the pronunciation, usual for Kyoto. The editor/s imagine a sort of enchanted atmosphere with maybe a pretty maiden . . . Recalling Bassho's inn with the hagi plants also meaning mature women, I would not be surprised if it also hinted at the inn serving as a rendevous spot/getaway for kawatarou-kuge (a not so complementary term for nobles/kuge, as they, like kappa, were said to be weak in the presence of metal (money and/or weapons? or gold and/or silver -- not sure of these things)).
source : Robin D. Gill, fb, 2013

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at Isawa Onsen 石和温泉 Isawa Hot Spring

納涼の河童二匹で語ること　
nooryoo no kappa nihiki de kataru koto

two Kappa
talking in the cool
of the summer breeze . . .

鴻風 Kofu

川内の河童は見えず寝込む夏
Sendai no kappa wa miezu nekomu natsu

to bed early in summer
not even seeing
the Kappa at Sendai

チー Chii

河童など出そうな譚や風薫る
kappa nado desoo na tanshi ya kaze kaoru

seems like a poem
about kappa is coming up now -
fragrant summer breeze

- source : 句写美じぃじ - 鴻風

. WKD : suzumi, nooryoo 納涼 to enjoy a cool breeze .
- - kigo for late summer - -

. WKD : kaze kaoru　風薫 fragrant breeze, balmy breeze .
- - kigo for all summer - -

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苧殻売る河童来さうな沼の店
ogara uru kappa kisoo na numa no mise

a store at the swamp
just like made for a Kappa
to sell ogara hemp

Machida Shigeki 町田しげき

. ogara 苧殻 hemp reed, hemp string .
- - kigo for early autumn - -
- and how to kill a Kappa with ogarabashi 苧殻箸 chopsticks from ogara hemp reeds

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- - - - - haiga　俳画 haiku or senryu and painting 河童の色紙 - - - - -

サッカーに入部少年らしくなる
美和句

and more haiga about various subjects
河童と山頭火 Santoka haiku with Kappa illustrations

source :　kajika3/archives - 河童の書(色紙教室）

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the two of us worked hard
and got drunk together
on sake for a couple

久米南町弓削は、川柳の町 Okayama, Kumenan Yuge village - a senryu village

Kappa Kaido, the Kappa Road　河童街道散歩道

- - - - - more flags with senryu from Yuge
- source : blogs.yahoo.co.jp/tanadanopapa

- Kappa Kaido in Japan 河童街道 reference TBA

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. - Kappabuchi, Kappa-buchi 河童淵 / カッパ淵 / 河童が渕
"Kappa pool", Kappa riverside - .

. Kappadera かっぱ寺 / 河童寺 Kappa temples .

. - Ogawa Usen 小川芋銭 - painter - . (1868-1938)
Haiku by him and about his paintings

. - sara　皿 plate with water on the Kappa's head - .

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Akebono Kappa Sweet Store あけぼの - 河童菓庵の俳句集
Yoshiimachi, Ukiha, Fukuoka Prefecture 839-1321 /筑後吉井/和菓子
The sweet confectionery store Akebono which features haiku (not about kappa) on plates and scrolls

- source : 獅子ヒロキさん

With a collection of Kappa Hina Dolls 河童のおひなさま
- source : yoshiiohinasama.blog

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- - - kappa - - -

河童に梅天の亡龍之介飯田蛇笏
河童の手がけてたてり大魚籃飯田蛇笏
河童の供養句つゞる立夏かな飯田蛇笏
河童子落月つるす夜の秋飯田蛇笏 - kappako
河童祭山月これを照らしけり飯田蛇笏 Kappa matsuri
濠の月青バスに乗る河童かな飯田蛇笏 kappa climbing into a bus
河童の恋路に月の薔薇ちれる飯田蛇笏 kappa no koi
飯田蛇笏 Iida Dakotsu

秋うらら河童と馬コの物語高澤良一 Kappa to uma, kappa and horse
河童が渕河童も秋思に耽る頃高澤良一
永日の河童に逢ひにカッパ淵
高澤良一 Takazawa Ryoichi also Kappabuchi collection

馬に乗つて河童遊ぶや夏の川村上鬼城 kappa and horse

河童子にのしかかりたる入道雲石原舟月 - kappako

極楽の文学と別河童の忌 Kappa no Ki (for Akutagawa)
阿波野青畝 Awano Seiho

暖炉燃え河童天国満たしをり
皆川白陀

山車にのる河童張子に夜霧ふる Kappa hariko papermachee doll on a festival float
八牧美喜子

カツパの饗宴池の栓は星が抜く
加来光洋

河童なくと人のいふ夜の霰かな中勘助 kappa crying

河童の川蚊細き脛の子と渉る萩原麦草 kappa no kawa, river with a kappa

河童の木乃伊もとめん今日の海丸石

河童四五葦の月夜にあらはるる文挟夫佐恵
河童屁の水泡浮ぶや夏柳安斎桜[カイ]子 kappa no he - farting
河童沼すとんと昏れて遠野寒曽根とき Kappanuma - swamp with Kappa

河童絶えし村よりキャベツ蹴り上げる松本勇二
河童達川より上り花見せり三島晩蝉

沼人に河童月夜といふ寒さ白岩三郎
沼良夜河童も貌を出しをらむ石井とし夫
浪裡白跳河童の多見次ほとゝぎす久保田万太郎 Kubota Mantaro
浮草に河童恐るゝ泳ぎ哉萍正岡子規 Masaoka Shiki

田を植ゑて河童の顔やわらひをる田中裕明
田作や河童に入歯なかるべし秋元不死男 Akimoto Fujio
田舎では河童が出ます水遊び岡田久慧

白鳥に河童の村を訊ねけり大串章 kappa no mura - village with Kappa
秋立つと河童の墓を尋ねけり原田喬 kappa no haka - grave of a Kappa

秋水の薄手に満ちて河童譚伊丹公子

葭切や河童二人の盥舟野村喜舟小石川
蒲の穂に河童出て寝る月夜かな上村占魚

蓴生ふ月にうるみて河童の碑岡崎真也
酒ありて河童の話出る良夜杉本寛
隻腕の河童にあひぬ冬の月北園克衛村

- - - Kawataro 河太郎 - Kappataro 河童太郎 - - -

溝萩のうしろにゐたり河太郎
齋藤玄

百八燈果てたる闇に河太郎
肥田埜勝美

雨気はしる花河骨の河太郎
石原八束

臍かくす河童太郎や荻の花
鬼頭進峰

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- - - - - kappahi 河童碑 Kappa memorial stone

河童碑につづく背戸径竹落葉
印南美都

河童碑を囲む沼辺の冬木立
高橋由子

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A poet named Kawataro - Hirose Kawataro 広瀬河太郎
鴎舞ひ白夜のネオン淡かりし広瀬河太郎

- source : HAIKUreikuDB

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- - - - - Senryu 川柳 - - - - -

a kappa farting -
this too is the voice
of Buddha

a frog farting -
this too is the
voice of God

The second would be a Christian version of it.
. Gabi Greve, 2005 .

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加古川の河童を嫁にしとるんじゃ Kakogawa no Kappa
source :　ブンゴの川柳ブログ

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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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1/13/2015

shirikodama

shirikodama 尻子玉 / 尻小玉 "soul ball in the anus"
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A legend from Fukui 福井県 about Gawatara Kappa ガワタラ，河太郎

On July 24 there is a ritual called "fire festival of Atago 愛宕の火祭り.
ogara (nowadays straw ropes) are burned while the children chant "yasaiyaa, yasaiyaa 「ヤサイヤー、ヤサイヤー」".
Then the fire has gone cold they take the coals and smear it all over their face and body and then go to the river nearby for a swim. The coal from ogara hemp will protect them from the river imp Gawatara, so that he can not come and pull out the soul ball of their anus.
source : www.nichibun.ac.jp

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SHIRIKODAMA.
As drowning victims are generally found with a distended anus (swollen rectal), the Kappa is also sometimes called the shirikodama 尻子玉 (lit. = anus ball, also written 尻小玉) vampire. The shirikodama is a mythical ball at the mouth of the anus. In order for the Kappa to steal the liver of the victim (by reaching its arm up into the victim’s anus or shiri 尻), the Kappa must first suck out or remove the shirikodama, which means certain death for its former owner.

The belief in this ball is rather mysterious, and scholars have come up with various explanations.
One explanation is the commonly observed “open anus” of drowning victims (as if something had been removed or sucked out).
Another conceivable reason could be the Tanden 丹田, or "elixir field," which is located beneath the navel and represents the focal energy point in age-old yogic breathing and meditative techniques.
Some Japanese scholars (Ando / Seino 1993) say the Kappa offers the shirikodama and/or liver as tribute to a snake-shaped dragon deity (the lord of water, the most powerful of all water deities).
But, in my mind, the most probable explanation relates to the term tama 玉 (also read dama), which can mean either ball or jewel. When read as “jewel,” it could easily mean life force, spirit, or soul. In paintings (see drawing by Jippensha below), the shirikodama is sometimes portrayed as a jewel with a pointed top -- one that looks exactly like the Hōju 宝珠 (Skt. = Cintamani), the sacred all-powerful wish-granting jewel of Buddhist lore.
- source : Mark Schumacher

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koomon 肛門 komon, hole, opening - anus
A kappa is said to have three komon.

- - The question of WHY is explored here :
. - hyoozu no kami, Hyōzu 兵主神 Hyozu no Kami
- Deity of Wind and Weapons - .

idoko イドコ（肛門） anus in the dialect of Gifu

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The Kappa is one of Japan’s most famous and most loved yokai.
I said there would be some blood, and here is a good example.

The Kappa, while one of Japan’s favorite yokai, especially among children, is not at all the cute little rapscallion that most people know him as. In older folklore, they hunt and eat humans, rape women, and murder horses and cattle.
Their favorite food is raw, bloody, human anuses. So be careful!
- source : Matthew Meyer

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You have a magical ball in your butt, and kappa want it.
At least that is how the story goes. Although modern kappa are often portrayed as cute and mostly harmless, during the Edo period they were monsters who had a particularly vicious method of killing their victims. In probably one of the strangest bits of Japanese folklore, it is said that human beings have something in their body called a shirikodama (尻子玉), which translates literally as “small anus ball.” The ball is nestled either immediately inside the anus, or deeper inside the intestines or the stomach. The kappa have a preferred method of extraction.

Folklorist/manga artist Mizuki Shigeru wrote:
“Ever since I was a child I heard that I had to be careful in the water because the kappa would try and take my shirikodama. It was said that in the water, a kappa would come from below, extend an arm upwards and stick a hand up your anus to extract the ball.”

In some stories, the kappa don’t reach up with their hands but instead actually suck the shirikodama from the body. However it was taken, the person whose shirikodama was extracted from was almost always killed in the process. Usually the kappa would hold them underwater to drown them first, before taking the ball.

What is a Shirikodama?
No one really agrees on what the shirikodama is. Some say that it is the human soul, hardened into physical form. Some say that the shirikodama in pictures resembles the Buddhist Hojo, or wish-granting jewel. The hojo was onion-shaped, with a round body and a tapered top. The usual depiction of the shirikodama does indeed resemble this shape.

Many associate the shirikodama with the liver. Kappa were known to love human livers, and some say that the shirikodama was the liver, or that the ball was blocking access to the liver with the liver being the actual target for the kappa.

Why Do They Want It?
Again, no one really knows for sure. The most basic explanation is that kappa consider the shirikodama to be a delicious delicacy and that they eat it as soon as it is removed. This explanations is contradicted by some Edo era depictions such as the one by Jippensha Ikku that shows a kappa with a freshly extracted shirikodama holding it far away from his face and clearly disgusted with the item. The shirikodama was said to smell as bad as the anus it was removed from.

In one story, it was said that the kappa paid the shirikodama as a sort of tribute and tax to the Dragon King who lived under the sea and was the lord of all things under the water. What the Dragon King would want with such an item no one has dared to guess.

But they did want it. A humorous print by Hokusai Katsushika called “How to Fish for Kappa” (Onajiku kappa-wo tsuru no hō ; 同河童を釣るの法) shows a man using his own backside as bait to lure a kappa in to be caught with a net.

The Origin of the Shirikodama
The most commonly accepted origin is that drowning victims often have an open or extended anus, looking as if something was taken out of it. Bodies that had drowned in the river or ocean and then washed up on shore might have looked as if something had been forcibly extracted from the anus.

With kappa moving further and further way from their role as monsters in Japan, the legend of the shirikodama is on its way to being forgotten. Kappa have been recast in Japan as being friendly mascots of various companies or harmless characters on children’s cartoons. In movies like the popular “My Summer Vacation with Coo the Kappa,” the cute little kappa Coo never once sneaks up on its human friend Koichi to forcibly remove a magical ball from his anus.

in From Mizuki Shigeru, Kappa Stories, Yōkai Stories
source : hyakumonogatari - Zack Davisson

- - - - - Check out other kappa tales from
- source : hyakumonogatari.com
Do Kappa Really Exist? - discussion
The Appearance of a Kappa - Edo Tokyo Kaii Hyakumonogatari (Tokyo)
The Kappa of Mikawa-cho (Tokyo)
The One-Armed Kappa (Gifu)

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source : facebook - Kaidankai

Enco : Monkey Monkey - A type of kappa.
Lurking in rivers and lakes, they wait for humans who drift carelessly too close, and reach out a red hand to plunge into their anus are rip out their shirikodama.
Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai

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Kumamoto 熊本県 - Various legends about the same theme:

Hidari Jingoro, his 藁人形 straw figures turning Kappa!
The straw figures
which Jingoro had made built a temple just over night.
When he threw them into the river after that, he told them "Just go and eat the assholes of people". So they became Kappa.
When such a Kappa eats rice offerings from a Buddhist altar, he can no longer kill people that way.

. Hidari Jingoroo 左甚五郎 Hidari Jingoro - master carpenter .

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. kappa tsuri, kappatsuri 河童釣 fishing for kappa .
- - - - - a la Hokusai Manga 北斎漫画
A man sits above his trap, holding the rope with one hand - and smoking his pipe leisurely.
When the Kappa, lured by the shirikodama anus treasure, comes close, he can capture the Kappa.

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- reference -

- - - - - . Gawatara Kappa ガワタラ and the shirikodama .

. - Kasha 火車 Kasha Demon "burning chariot" - .
There is also the theory
that the legend of kappa making humans drown and taking their butts (eating their innards from their butts) was born as a result of the influence of this kasha.

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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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Yokai Monsters

Goyu - 36 Stations of the Yokai Road - Mizuki Shigeru

bakemono 化け物　 o-bake お化け
bakemono matsuri 化物祭 monster festival
Botan Doro 牡丹灯篭 The Peony Lantern
Hyaku monogatari 百物語 One Hundred Ghost Stories
iruikon 異類婚 marriage between different kinds (humans and monsters)
- - - irui nyooboo 異類女房 wife / irui muko 異類婿 husband
kaidanbanashi 怪談話 ghost stories
kiraigoo, ki raigoo 鬼来迎 Kiraigo, welcoming the demons
kyuuketsu ki 吸血鬼 vampire, blood-sucking demon

. oni 鬼 Japanese demons .

. yooki 妖鬼 Yoki - Yokai Monster Demon .

. yuurei 幽霊 Yurei ghost, Geist .

Plant, David Plant
Three Mythological Beasts you see in everyday Japan (and what the hell they mean)
The Tanuki - The Tengu - The Namazu

Toriyama Sekien 鳥山石燕 (1712 – 1788) ukiyo-e artist

- - - - - - all the above are featured here :
. Yokai 妖怪 Monsters - Introduction - .
- Introduction in the Darumapedia -

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. 江戸 Edo - 妖怪 Yokai monsters, 幽霊 Yurei ghosts .
kuchisake onna 口裂け女 slit-mouthed woman
haifuri tanuki 灰降狸 the ash-throwing Tanuki
isogashi いそがし "busy busy"　Busybody
kioicho no densha 紀尾井町の電車 the train from Kioi village
kurokamikiri 黒髪切 black hair cutter
nekomusume, neko musume 猫娘　cat daughter
onimusume, oni-musume 鬼娘 demon daughter
ooki na otoko 大きな男 the huge man
tachifusagari たちふさがり twister, whirlwind

. tsukimono 憑き物 bewitched .
Being bewitched by a fox, badger, a Yokai or other ill-meaning foe was pretty common in Japan,
there are many legends and tales about it.

. kidan 鬼談 Demon stories, Yokai and Demon talk .
yasō kidan 夜窓鬼談 Yaso Kidan "Night-window demon talk" / Manga - Kidan 漫画：鬼談
Niryuu no Matsu 二龍の松 Niryu no Matsu, "Pine like two dragons"
iki, itsuki 縊鬼 / いつき / kubire-oni 縊れ鬼 / くびれ鬼 strangler demon
鬼子を産みし事 Oni-ko demon child born
Rokurokubi, Rokuro-Kubi ろくろ首 "moving head"

. Ino Mononoke Roku 稲生物怪録 The Ghost Experience of Mr. Ino . - 1749

. Shrine Yokai Jinja 妖怪神社 and Yokai Ema 妖怪絵馬 votive tablets .

. Haiku and Senryu about Yokai monsters　俳句　川柳 .

. Buson Yokai Emaki 蕪村妖怪絵巻 Buson Monster Scroll .
. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 (1715 - 1783) Painter and Poet .

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triptych by Kyodai

source :　Yokai Attack - Lucas Perla - fb

Watch out for the Kappa, Fudo Myo-O and even Daruma san!

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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- yōkai 妖怪 Yokai monsters - Reference - -

. 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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Haiku about Yokai

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- Haiku 俳句 and Senryu 川柳 about Yokai monsters -

. Kappa - yookai, yōkai 妖怪 Yokai monsters - .
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The Haiku Database features a lot of haiku with the following keywords:

bakeneko 化け猫
hyakume 百目"one hundred eyes"
kamaitachi, kama itachi かまいたち /鎌鼬 Koshinetsu region
nurari hyootan ぬらりひょうたん
nurikabe ぬりかべ
oonyuudo 大入道 Onyudo / 入道 Nyudo
rokurokubi ろくろ首 / 轆轤首 "strechted neck"
sudama 魑魅（すだま）
sunakake baba 砂かけ婆 Hyogo, Nara
tanukibayashi たぬきばやし tanuki musicians
tengu 天狗 Tengu, Mountain Goblin
tenjoname 天井なめ "ceiling licker"
umiboozu 海坊主 Umibōzu, Umibozu
yuki onna 雪女 yuki otoko 雪男 snow woman, snow man
zashiki waraji 座敷わらし Tono, Iwate

. 酒呑童子 Shuten Doji .

- source : HAIKUreikuDB
Most monsters are explained in the English Wikipedia.

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- - - 妖怪ぞろぞろ俳句の本 - - -
by 古舘綾子 (著), 山口マオ (イラスト)

(上〉妖怪・動物
Byakko white fox *
Hikigaeru toad
Hitodama　人霊
Hototogisu
Inuhariko, inu hariko　犬張子
Kamaitachi
Kappa
Kawauso
Kidama　木霊 *
Kindachi Kitsune　公達狐 fox
Kinoko no Kai mushroom
Kitsunebi fox light
Kitsune no hikyaku - messenger fox
Kuzu no ha　葛の葉 *
Kyuubi no Kitsune　fox with 9 tails
Minomushi
Ningyo　人魚
Ooji no Kitsune　王子の狐 foxes from Oji
Tanuki badger
Tengu　天狗
Tako　蛸 octopus
Uzura 鶉 quail
Yamainu　山犬
Yuki Onna

〈下〉鬼神・超人
Adachigahara no onibaba
Abe no Seimei
Arukigami
Binbogami *
Botan toro lantern
Enma Daio, Emma San
Hankonko　反魂香　incense deity
Hitokotonushi
Hoso no Kami　疱瘡の神
Hotei and Shichifukujin *
Joga 嫦娥　a Chinese deity and beauty in the moon
Kannazuki to Ebisu
Kawaragami
Kijo Momiji　鬼女紅葉 *
Ono no Takamura
Rashomon no Oni
Shinigami
Shuten Doji
Suwa no Kami　諏訪の神 *
Taira no Masakado
Tenjinsama
#Tsukumogami 付喪神 *

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yookai 妖怪 Yokai
kaibutsu 怪物 monster / obake お化け monsters

中国に妖怪多し夕牡丹有馬朗人耳順
妖怪日や夢に泣く児の背さする前田貴美子
妖怪火の爆竹の弾づ石敢当大城幸子
島の妖怪名もない草と遊んでいる本田ひとみ
爆竹を妻が買ひ来る妖怪日城間捨石
日の永く一つ目妖怪囲碁打図高澤良一
緑さす鴻山妖怪財布かな高澤良一
長き夜を読ませる宵曲妖怪譚高澤良一

怪物という名をもらい生身魂富田潮児
引退せし怪物が観る中烏健二

お化け小屋呼び込み男の甚平着高澤良一
お化け屋敷呼び込み婆の簡単服(アッパッパ) 加藤晴美
お化け柳くぐって聖夜劇のかえり伊丹公子メキシコ貝
お化け煙突冬日を赤児のごと抱けり磯貝碧蹄館
お化け用シッカロールも嚢中に樋笠文
天上天下お化け屋敷の出入口宮崎二健
洞爺村お化け南瓜の遠しるべ山口すえ子
葉の蔭で胡瓜お化けとなりゐたり北嶋薫
風婆娑羅おばけの耳の水芭蕉草野力丸
かなかなやまっしろおばけの宿題帳岡田葉子

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mononoke, mono no ke 物の怪 evil spirits

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Mononoke (物の怪) are vengeful spirits (onryō), dead spirits (shiryō), live spirits (ikiryō), or spirits in Japanese classical literature and folk religion that were said to do things like possess humans and make them suffer, cause disease, or even cause death.
It is also a word sometimes used to refer to yōkai or henge ("changed beings").
- source : wikipedia

物の怪のつく時眠し青芒長谷川かな女
物の怪のつと立ち去りし昼蛙田沼文雄
物の怪のゆさぶるならむ木の実降る小川玉泉
物の怪の何時離れたる破れ傘高澤良一
物の怪の抜けし皮吊る雪見宿橋本榮治越在
物の怪の椿を落す遊びかな山根真矢
物の怪の気配見すますやまぼうし坂口澤

われに物の怪北にさまよう晒し首隈治人
丑三つや物の怪ならず舞ふ落葉穴吹義教
夕ざくら家並を走る物の怪よ中村苑子
夜桜や物の怪通るとき冷ゆる春樹
山宿に物の怪ばなし二日月山田千代
底紅や物の怪のたつ髪の宮松本進
浮人形なに物の怪の憑くらむか角川源義

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nopperaboo のっぺらぼう Nopperabo

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The Noppera-bō (のっぺら坊 Noppera-bō), or faceless ghost,
is a Japanese legendary creature. They are sometimes mistakenly referred to as a mujina, an old Japanese word for a badger or raccoon dog. Although the mujina can assume the form of the other, noppera-bō are usually humans. Such creatures were thought to sometimes transform themselves into noppera-bō in order to frighten humans. Lafcadio Hearn used the animals' name as the title of his story about faceless monsters, probably resulting in the misused terminology.

Noppera-bō are known primarily for frightening humans, but are usually otherwise harmless. They appear at first as ordinary human beings, sometimes impersonating someone familiar to the victim, before causing their features to disappear, leaving a blank, smooth sheet of skin where their face should be.
source : wikipedia

. Nopperabo wearing a Yuzen kimono 友禅 .

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あぢさゐののっぺらぼうのうすぼんやり高澤良一
くわりん皆もぎたる夜ののっぺらぼう高澤良一
鶏頭ののっぺらぼうに後の月高澤良一
霧込めののっぺらぼうぞ草千里高澤良一

ほうぼうののつぺらぼうの味を噛む桂信子草影
おばさん族のっぺらぼうの一語です白石司子
のつぺらぼうなるも案山子の紳士めく江渡文子
俳句とはのつぺらぼうか僕の夢筑紫磐井
憤怒り/憤怒る/ /全身舌ののっぺらぼう高原耕治
港町のっぺらぼうに雪が降る穴井太
灯さねば夜長の行燈のつぺらぼう斎藤千代子
老犬とのつぺらぼうの寒卵大木あまり
自意識を畳む水母ののっぺらぼう平敷とし
衣被のつぺらぼうな顔がある鈴木貞雄
露の人まことのっぺらぼうなりけり橋石和栲

nopperabo -
the state secrets law
right on the spot 　

December 2014
A strict new state-secrets law that critics charge will help conceal government misdeeds and limit press freedom has taken effect in Japan.
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tsukumogami 付喪神 Yokai of old household items

bake-zoori 化け草履　Yokai sandals

. tsukumogami 付喪神 - Introduction .
Haiku by Yosa Buson // Buson Yokai Emaki 蕪村妖怪絵巻 Buson Monster Scroll

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yamanba, yamauba 山姥 old woman in the mountains

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Yamauba, Yama-uba (山姥 or 山うば), Yamamba or Yamanba
a monstrous crone, “her unkempt hair long and golden white ... her kimono filthy and tattered,” with cannibalistic tendencies. ...
Noh drama, translated as, Yamauba, Dame of the Mountain, Komparu Zenchiku . . .
- source : wikipedia

女書生老婆山姥飛花落花黒田杏子
山姥の一夜を臥しぬ花の下黒田杏子
山姥の切火をこぼす銀河かな黒田杏子
山姥に山山のこゑ月のこゑ黒田杏子
残花巡る山姥この世のちの世黒田杏子
睡る自由山姥にあり花の昼黒田杏子
蛇穴に入る山姥のいきいきと黒田杏子
銀漢に触れ山姥の舞ひいづる黒田杏子 Kuroda Momoko

山姥の遊びのこして遅桜蕪村 Buson

山姥や月戀ふ山の山めぐり正岡子規
山姥の力餅賣る薄かな薄正岡子規 Masaoka Shiki

山姥がひよいと出てくる霧襖橋本京子
山姥が塩買ひにくる寒さかな大石悦子
山姥が来るぞと蕎麦の茎まつ赤中原道夫
山姥が来るぞ実を振るななかまど橋本榮治
山姥に秋が来てゐるさるをがせ(富士五合目) 野澤節子
山姥に蹴られてでたり峰の月中勘助
山姥も打か月夜の遠きぬた井上井月

山姥のうしろ姿のすさまじや桂信子花影
山姥のかんざしにせよ花木ぶし松村多美
山姥のさびしと見する通草かな川崎展宏
山姥のぽつりと応ふ三十三才すずき波浪
山姥のもの瀧山に糞あるは小内春邑子
山姥の冬も霧吐く丹波かな西村和子
山姥の大き目と会ふ五月闇大高千代
山姥の投げしか朴の実が赤し高須禎子
山姥の採らばかくれむ山葡萄赤尾兜子
山姥の月夜の舞ぞ憶ふべし齊藤美規
山姥の木の葉のころも秋の風中勘助
山姥の杖寝かせある冬苺富岡廣志
山姥の渉りしあとの雪解かな前田普羅
山姥の目敏く土筆見つけたり沢木欣一
山姥の眸に冬山の色なせる長谷川かな女
山姥の笑ひの残る種を蒔く西野理郎
山姥の能見て帰るさくらかな沢田まさみ
山姥の衣かと思ひさるをがせ龍神悠紀子
山姥の話のつゞき零余子飯可児素子
山姥の貌を見せたる破れ蓮河野多希女納め髪
山姥の通りぬけたる踊の灯星野麥丘人
山姥の里に来てをる吾亦紅川崎展宏
山姥の顔あかあかと門火かな沢木欣一

かすかなる山姥のこゑ杜鵑草小檜山繁子
こゑ出して山姥に似る真葛原鍵和田釉子
さるをがせ実に山姥は衣装持ち中島たけ子
またゝび酒乾して山姥月に泣く殿村莵絲子
わが枕には山姥の木の葉髪品川鈴子
一駅を乗る山姥の白団扇下田稔
人恋しがる山姥に栗もらふ田中水桜
幾つ食べれば山姥となる一位の実山田みづえ
怖かりし山姥雛懐しや松藤夏山夏山句集
枯れ蔓を引き山姥にさわがるる田仲暁美
柚子湯出て山姥のごと横坐り大木あまり
樫落葉焚きて山姥めく日かな馬場移公子
水餅を飼ふ山姥となる日まで佐藤鬼房潮海
氷面鏡夜は山姥が紅刷きに渡辺恭子
満月に山姥が泣く夜なりけり小川原嘘帥
猿酒や山姥住みし洞はこれ小林樹巴
落葉掃きくらゐはせよと山姥が佐々木六戈
落葉風山姥くちをひらきたり鍵和田[ゆう]子
身ぬちより山姥のこゑ秋の谿手塚美佐昔の香
身の奥に山姥きざす木の葉髪渡辺恭子

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. The Matsuo Basho Archives 松尾芭蕉 .

山寺芭蕉記念館 Yamadera Matsuo Basho Kinenkan - Museum
Annual exhibition with haiku and illustrations by the masters.

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「妖怪と文学・美術」／山寺芭蕉記念館文人が描く“もののけ”
all about 鬼 oni、天狗 tengu 、カッパ kappa などの“もののけ” and mononoke, mono no ke
Illustrations by 鳥山石燕 Toriyama Sekien, 北斎漫画 Hokusai Manga, 河鍋暁斎 Kawanabe Kyosai, Buson 妖怪絵巻（複製）, 水木しげる Mizuki Shigeru
Even ウルトラマン Ultraman is featured.
- reference : 山寺芭蕉記念館 -

. Risshakuji 立石寺 Risshaku-Ji, Yamadera　山寺 .
and the Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

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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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1/12/2015

Ogo Hyogo Legend

「降りが淵の河童」The Kappa from Kudarigabuchi River Bank

Once upon a time, there lived a hard working man in Ogo, let us call him Danna, from morning to evening he tended to his fields and produced delicious rice.
One day he saw a man coming up from Kudarigabuchi, calling on him:
"I help you weeding the rice fields and all, if you let me stay in your home" he begged.

When he began weeding, he was so fast, really so fast, it was quite amazing.
So Danna, decided to keep the man as a farm hand.

The new farm hand got up early before sunrise and worked till long into the evening.
When his own work was done he went to others in the village and helped them too.

Three years may have passed, and Danna seemed to be come weaker and weaker, while the farm hand seemed to become faster and faster. A rumor began to spread in the village.

"This man, he does not seem to be human. He must be the Kappa "Kawataro" かっぱのかわたろう.
The seems to drink blood from the anus of Danna and is going to kill him, for sure!"

Even Danna began to have his doubts about his farm hand.
He had heard the story that a kappa would die if he has to eat his rice with chopsticks made from
ogara hemp reeds 『おがら苧殻』.
He decided to give it a try one evening.

The next morning, oh wonder, the man did not appear for breakfast and when they looked for him, they found him dead and cold already.

Despite all, Danna grieved for this loss and arranged a sumptuous burial ceremony for him. He then built a memorial stone at the Kudarigabuchi.

Every year at O-Bon, the ancestor ritual in Autumn, the family of Danna went to the stone memorial, ate a bowl of rice with chopsticks of hemp reeds and prayed for the happiness of the Kappa in heaven.

This story shows us the gentleness of the people of Ogo.

- source : hisamoto-kizo.com

. Dislikes - things a Kappa fears .

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The above story was created by students of Ogo.
Here they are visiting the Kappa river bank.

- source : www2.kobe-c.ed.jp/ogo-es

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- - - - - Shinto and Hemp - 　麻 asa 　大麻 taima, oasa - - - - -

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In ancient Japan,
hemp was one of the materials used for making clothing, fibers and paper. These valuable commodities were used in offerings at shrines, and the hemp plant had auspicious connotations because of its rapid growth and persistence against adversity.
. . .
In Shinto hemp fibre is used for making white paper and rope hangings, as in ceremonial use of shide and gohei. It’s said too that the holes in 5 and 50 yen coins derive from having been hung on hemp strings in the past, because the fibre was so durable.
...
“At Shinto jinja (shrines) and Buddhist tera (temples), certain objects are symbolically made from hemp.
For example, the leg-thick bell ropes, and the noren, a short curtain that hangs over the doorways and brushes the top of the head as one enters the room, must be hempen.
The noren 暖簾　acts as a symbolic purification rite, meant to cause evil spirits to flee from the body.”
Indeed,
the Shinto priests and faithful used hemp fibers as symbolic elements in their religious ceremonies.
One such use was the waving of a gohei (a short stick) with undyed hemp fibers attached to the end. Shaking these asa fibers above the patron’s heads apparently drove the evil spirits from the soul. Further, hemp was a symbolic gift of acceptance and obedience from the groom’s family to the bride’s in times of matrimony.
(Robinson 1996)
...
In another old tradition (at O-Bon),
rooms of worship were purified by burning hemp leaves by the entrance. This would invite the spirits of the departed, purify the room and encourage people to dance.
"On the first evening, fires of hemp leaves are lighted be-fore the entrance of the house, and incense strewed on the coals, as an invitation to the spirits. At the end of the three days, the food that has been set out for the spirits is wrapped up in mats and thrown into a river. Dances of a peculiar kind are a conspicuous feature of the celebration, which is evidently an old Japanese custom; the Buddhist elements are adscititious (derived from outside).”
(Moore 1991).
This ritual took place as part of a Buddhist holy day for “giving respect and making amends with departed ancestors”. The current tradition at this August Obon festival involves the similar practice of leaving offerings of the departed’s favorite foods on the grave, perhaps to purify or satisfy the restless soul. At some time in the past, hemp leaves were likely a part of this ritual as well.
- source : John Dougill - Green Shinto

. Oasahiko no Okami 大麻比古の大神 Deity of Hemp .
Oasahiko Jinja　大麻比古神社 Oasahiko Shrine - Naruto Town, Tokushima, Shikoku.

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- - The descendants of Amenohiwashi
crossed over to Awa Province in Shikoku in search of lands to cultivate grains and hemp. As a result, the Awa Inbe clan developed the tradition of offering hemp and paper-mulberry textiles to the emperor on the occasion of the imperial accession ceremony or Daijōsai.
- - Busha sai
Sacred Archery Festival or Foot Archery Festival (depending on the Chinese characters used to write the name). An archery rite held on March 17 at the Hotaka Shrine (Hotaka jinja) in Hotaka Town, Azumi County, Nagano Prefecture. Ritual objects featured in the festival include three bows strung with hemp and fourteen arrows, of which two have written prayers attached and are called the Arrow of the Kami and the Arrow of the Lord.
... Another Sacred Archery Festival is held at Tsushima Shrine (Tsushima jinja) in Tsushima City, Aichi Prefecture on the sixteenth day of the first month of the old lunar calendar. Gohei (ritual paper streamers) are placed on top of the targets and the shrine's administrative head (gūji) shoots arrows towards heaven and earth. Six archers shoot in pairs, two arrows each. The bows are made of willow with hemp strings.
- - Jingiryō
The Laws on Deities of the Taihō and Yōrō codes.
Each district needs to provide one sword, one deerskin, one hoe, and other miscellaneous items; each residential unit must donate one jō of hemp; and each provincial governor is responsible for furnishing one horse.
- - Kukatachi
The Japanese characters are also read kugatachi. This ritual is a type of trial by divine will used to judge the legitimacy or veracity of a person's claim. ... t relates that a large cauldron called a kukabe was placed on Amakashi Hill at Kotomakado Cape. clan representatives first purified themselves by cleansing their hair and bodies (mokuyoku saikai) and then put on yūdasuki (yudasuki, a hemp cord worn when performing rituals to keep the sleeves out of the way) before performing the water ordeal.

source : Kokugakuin

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How to kill a Kappa
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Wayne found a starving Kappa in a well in a cave in 1942. He chained the Kappa and supplied it with girls for food, taking advantage of rejuvenating properties of the water in which the Kappa lived.
Kappa appear to have heightened strength and to some extent speed. However, their most important quality appears to be their resistance to harm and healing abilities. They seem to feed on females, using the nourishment they obtain from them to trigger the healing process, which can be imparted upon the waters in which they immerse themselves in. Humans who drink from this water receive similar benefits, like longevtity and vitality.
The easiest way to kill a Kappa
is to knock the top of its head off, spilling fluid out of its head and immediately killing it.
- source : lostgirl.wikia.com

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. WKD - ogara - kigo for early autumn .

ogara 苧殻 hemp reed, hemp string
麻幹/麻殻/あさぎ asagi
ogara 苧殻 (おがら) string made from hemp (to light the mukaebi)
..... asagara 麻殻（あさがら）、asagi あさぎ
ogarabi 苧殻火（おがらび）fire lit with hemp string and reeds

ogarabashi 苧殻箸 chopsticks from ogara hemp reeds

The fibers are torn off the stem of hemp and what is left can be dried. Things made from ogara hemp were seen as pure and used for Shinto rituals.
During the Edo period, the sticks from ogara hemp were used to light the fire during the O-Bon ancestor rituals in August.

悲しさやをがらの箸も大人なみ
kanashisa ya ogara no hashi mo otona nami

such sadness -
even the ogara chopsticks
the size for a grown-up

. Hirose Izen 広瀬維然 . ( ? - 1711)

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苧殻売る河童来さうな沼の店
ogara uru kappa kisoo na numa no mise

a store at the swamp
just like made for a Kappa
to sell ogara hemp

Machida Shigeki 町田しげき

source :　xxx

「このへんはこわいぞ　みずあそびはやめよう」
This swamp is dangerous. Don't go swimming here!

The Kappa sign at the swamp 白幡沼 Shirahatanuma swamp and 見沼代用水 Minuma daiyosui waterway in Saitama.

Minuma (見沼 Minuma) or Minuma Rice Paddies (見沼田んぼ Minuma Tanbo) is an area of paddy fields and other agricultural fields along the Minuma Irrigational Canal in Saitama Prefecture
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shirikodama 尻子玉 / 尻小玉 "soul ball in the anus"

More about the Kappa and ogara:

A legend from Fukui 福井県 about Gawatara Kappa ガワタラ，河太郎

On July 24 there is a ritual called "fire festival of Atago 愛宕の火祭り.
ogara (nowadays straw ropes) are burned while the children chant "yasaiyaa, yasaiyaa 「ヤサイヤー、ヤサイヤー」".
Then the fire has gone cold they take the coals and smear it all over their face and body and then go to the river nearby for a swim. The coal from ogara will protect them from the river imp Gawatara, so that he can not come and pull out the soul ball of their anus.

source : www.nichibun.ac.jp

A legend from Akita 秋田県
Once a Kappa slipped on some ogara, fell down and lost the water from his sara plate on his head. He soon lost all his power.
So nowadays if people want to swim safely in the local rivers, they take some ogara and hemp strings to protect themselves from the kappa.
source : namahage.is.akita-u.ac.jp - Akita

. - shirikodama 尻子玉 / 尻小玉 "soul ball in the anus" - . 　　

. 河童紙芝居　Kamishibai of the Kappa legends - Introduction .

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