Kappa - The Kappapedia

3/07/2015

cucumbers

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Kappa folk also have a liking for cucumbers, a weakness that can be used to human advantage. According to one tale, an offering of cucumbers (on which are etched the name/age of family members) is enough to appease the Kappa, who thereafter will refrain from harming you and your family. Even today, cucumber sushi in Japan is called “Kappa-maki”.

Let us quote Michael Dylan Foster:
“One of the better known of the kappa's traits is its love of kyuri, or cucumbers. Many of the festivals associated with kappa include offerings of cucumbers (e.g., Takeda 1988, and Orikuchi 1955,). Here again, the complexity of the kappa belief is apparent. As Takeda points out, there are some regions where it is believed that eating a cucumber and then swimming will lead to certain attack by a kappa, while in other areas it is a way to ensure protection against attack (Takeda 1988).
Other foods to which the kappa is partial include nasu (Japanese eggplant), soba (buckwheat noodles), natto (fermented soybeans), and kabocha (pumpkin).

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.
The Nihon shoki passage cited above shows that the power of hyotan to confound the kappa was understood early on.
In one of the folktales involving kappa, the so-called kappa muko, or "kappa bridegroom tale" (Ikeda 1971), the same motif appears. A farmer, whose fields have dried up because of drought, offers his daughter to anybody who can irrigate them. A kappa succeeds in this task and receives the reluctant bride. The daughter, however, challenges the kappa to sink some gourds in the river. The kappa soon exhausts itself trying to complete this impossible task, and abandons the marriage.”
- source : Michael Dylan Foster

. - hyootan 瓢箪 Hyotan gourd, calabash and Kappa .

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Kappa as the Messenger of the deity Gion San

Gataro ガタロ Kappa
If people went swimming in the river during the Gion San 祇園さん（天王さん Gion Festival, the Gataro would pull them in the water, so swimming was not allowed during that time.
The Shrine crest of the Gion shrine was a cucumber cut in slices, a favorite food of the Kappa. So during that festival people were not allowed to eat cucumbers.

祇園さんの神紋 Gion Shrine Crest

. kamon 家紋 family crests .

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Kappa with cucumber

- source : umber.deviantart.com

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kappa tsuri, kappatsuri 河童釣 fishing for kappa
is always done with a cucumber.

source :　suuzki GN

Fishing for Kappa is especially popular in Tono, Iwate.

. Tono Monogatari 遠野物語 Legends of Tono, Iwate .

Hokusai has his own version of kappa fishing :

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.

『北斎漫画』より「河童を釣るの法」 Hokusai Manga
- source : www.youkaiwiki.com

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

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Kappa - Stealing Cucumber

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Kyuuchan キューちゃん Kyu-Chan - The Town Mascot of Ushiku

"The Cucumber Boy"

He even gets a birthday cake !

And Kappa Senbei 河童せんべい are a speciality of the city.

茨城県牛久市田宮町45-10 ー　かっぱ本舗　
source :　www.kappa-honpo.com

. Ushiku 牛久 Kappa in Ibaraki .

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Kappa kids nibbeling cucumbers

- source : kizakura facebook 黄桜カッパ -

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. WKD - kyuuri 胡瓜 (きゅうり) cucumber .
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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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3/05/2015

Kappa-Do Hall

Kappa Daimyoojin 河童大明神 Kappa Daimyojin

Even the box for money offerings is in the form of a Kappa.
saisen ire 賽銭入れ

In the back of the compound there are many concrete walls with Kappa art.
コンクリートの壁に絵が掛けられていた

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- source : kodawarinikki

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Kappa Matsuri 河童祭 Kappa Festival Mid-July
Children offer cucumbers and have a sumo wrestling contest (相撲大会).
With prayers for avoiding water accidents and other disasters. Also praying for the health of the children.
- source : http://burari2161.fc2web.com/kaxtupa.html

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More photos of the shrine
- source : koalaの部屋
50代主婦の日記です

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岐阜市内護国神社の、片隅にある河童堂という河童

Many more Kappa photos
- source : photokasahara

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There are various places with this name, not only shrines or temples.

- source : myreco.me/shop

- source : 旧式河童堂歳々ブログ

名刺作成-名刺通販の河童堂
気仙沼河童堂
旧式河童堂
河童堂かっぱちんのキッチン cooking

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. Mingei 民芸　Regional Folk　Art from Japan .

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3/02/2015

Tetsugi Shrine

- source and photos : bouguya.exblog.jp

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Praying at this shrine will help heal problems with your hand and arms.

. - Kappa no kusuri カッパの薬 / 河童の薬 Kappa and medicine - .

There are many legends of a Kappa who had exchanged his arm for a special medicine and then died, but this legend comes in some versions.

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Once upon a time
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. A kappa lived in this river at that time.
Suddenly his horse stopped.
When the lord looked down he saw a Kappa pulling at its tail to get the horse into the water.

The Lord was taken by surprize.
"His must be the bad guy who is doing so much harm to the villagers all the time!"
He took his sword, grabed the tail of his horse and cut off the arm of the Kappa.
The Kappa had to jump back into the water without his arm and the hand with the web between the fingers 水掻き to make his such a good swimmer.

The Lord thought this arm of the Kappa was quite special and put it up on the shelf in the tokonoma 床の間 decoration alcove of his reception room.

Late at night a lone man knocked at his gate and asked for a lodging for this night.
His face was a pale green and he had only one arm.
The Lord did not want to ask the poor man about the reason for the missing arm and had a bed prepared for him. Then he went to sleep himself.

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at midnight, he felt the presence of another being and indeed, when he checked, the man was just trying to steal the arm of the Kappa from the shelf.

"Hey, so you are a thief after all!" he yelled at the man.
The man turned into a Kappa in no time, grabbed the arm on the shelf and tried to run out of the estate.

But the Lord, who was a strong man, caught the Kappa and bound him with a rope.
"At least now we know who you are, you vicious Kappa.
I will not allow you to harm my villagers any more, you bad bad Kappa!"

"Dear Lord, please forgive me, I will never be bad again. Please, please, let me go back to my river! I understand your anger very well, but you see, I have an old mother and if I do not come home to care for her, she will die too. Just thinking about her makes me so sad!"

When the Lord heard this story, he felt pity with the Kappa.
"Well, because of your mother I will forgive you for today. But you have to promise never to do any harm again. As a punishment for your misdeeds so far, I will keep this arm of yours!"

But the Kappa pleaded again. If he dose not get his arm back, he said, he can do nothing and not help his old mother and in the end, the Lord let him have the arm back.

"For the sake of your mother and since you seem to care so much for her (oya kookoo 親孝行),
I will let you have the arm back."
"Thank you so very much, my Lord. I will never forget you and pay you back a favor some time!"

Next morning - oh wonder - a huge carp was hanging from the branch of a tree in his garden.
And the following morning, - oh wonder - a huge eels was hanging on the branch.
And you guess, the following morning - oh wonder - a crucian carp (funa フナ) was hanging on the branch.

The Lord asked his retainers, but nobody had done this and nobody knew anything about this fish present.
A month went by, half a year went by, a year went by with a fish present hanging on the tree every morning.

Then came a very cold day of winter, with a strong cold gale blowing and on this morning, nothing was hanging on the branch.
"I wonder what happened to our fish provider. Maybe he is ill?"
And the Lord went down to the river to have a look.

When he looked down at the river from the bank, he saw something bobbing in the water.
When he came closer, he saw the dead body of the Kappa with o huge would on one of his arms.
And in his hand the Kappa was grabbing a huge huge carp.

When the Lord saw the hand grabbing the carp, he suddenly realized who had brought a fish to his garden every morning. It was the Kappa he had once spared the life!
So the Lord had a shrine build upstream to venerate and thank the Kappa for his daily presents-
the Tetsugi Jinja - lit. "The Shrine of the Grafted Arm".
The End.
- reference : isituka_mitiko

Another source quoted that the Kappa was also passing on the recipe for a medicine to heal wounds.
The family of Serizawa kept the medicine for many many generations, and after they lost their status as samurai, they made a living as doctors.
Serizawa Kamo 芹沢鴨 (? - 1863), of the Shinsengumi, was a member of this clan.
- reference : shittaka37.seesaa.net

The name of the bridge is also given as 手奪橋 Teubaibashi - bridge of the captured arm.
across the river 梶無川 Kajinashigawa.
（茨城県行方市玉造町芹沢橋)
The Kappa grabbed the horse's tail when the Lord rode over this bridge.
- reference : ameblo.jp/shokokai-namegata

The name of the Kappa is given as 七郎河童 Shichiro Kappa.

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source :　denebolaleonis.blog

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Serizawa Kamo 芹沢鴨 (1826? – October 30?, 1863)
was a samurai known for being the original lead commander of the Shinsengumi. He trained in and received a licence in the Shindō Munen-ryū. "Kamo" means goose or duck in Japanese which was an odd name to call oneself at the time.
His full name was Serizawa Kamo Taira no Mitsumoto (Serizawa=family name, Kamo=given name, Taira=family clan name, Mitsumoto=formal given name.)

The Serizawa family were upper-seat Goshi rank samurai in Serizawa village in Mito which is now the capital of Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. Kamo was born as the youngest son and his childhood name was Genta. He had two older brothers and an older sister. He was educated with the Sonnō jōi ideals (meaning revere the Tenno (emperor) and expel the foreigners) and swordsmanship since childhood at Kodoukan which was a state school in Mito. Mito is a sub-branch of the Tokugawa family and it was considered the motherland of the Sonnō Jōi ideology and was a center of support for the Tennō and the Imperial court, which helped fuel the Revolution.

- maybe Zerisawa 芹沢鴨？

Although no portrait of Kamo remains, it is said he was a large man with very pale skin and small eyes.

On one hand, Serizawa was quite bold and fearless and on the other hand, he was extremely selfish and had a terribly short temper so he started fights often. If he was in a bad mood he would get violent, especially when he was drinking, and he was a heavy drinker.
He was an idealist who held very strong pro-Imperial court beliefs and took the Sonno-joi beliefs very seriously while at the same time siding with the Tokugawa regime. A small fact that is less well-known is that Serizawa was good at drawing and showed his drawings to children.
- source : wikipedia

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2/26/2015

Garappa

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- Garappa ガラッパ Garappa Don ガラッパドン of Kyushu
ガワッパ　gawappa　カワッパ　 kawappa
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APPEARANCE:
Garappa are river spirits found on the islands of Kyushu in southern Japan. They are close relatives of kappa and resemble them in many ways, thus the two are often confused with each other. There are a number of important differences. Physically, garappa are almost identical to kappa, the most notable difference being that a garappa’s limbs are much longer than those of a kappa. When garappa sit down their knees rise high above their heads, while kappa’s knees do not. Because of these longer limbs, garappa are taller than kappa when standing upright. Garappa also have slightly longer and more streamlined faces.

BEHAVIOR:
Garappa are much more shy and elusive than kappa, and tend to avoid populated areas. Instead, they wander back and forth between the rivers and mountains. They tend to live in smaller groups, or by themselves. Because of their shyness, garappa are more often heard than seen. They have two distinctive calls: “hyo–hyo–,” and, “foon-foon-foon.”

INTERACTIONS:
While garappa encounters are much rarer than kappa, they share with kappa a similar relationship with humankind. They are extremely fond of pranks and mischief, and love to surprise people on mountain paths, or trick travelers into losing their way. Garappa are physically stronger than a human, and easily capable of overpowering grown men larger than them. They are extremely fond of sumo wrestling, at which they are highly skilled. Garappa are also very sexually aggressive and frequently assault and rape women.

Despite their reputation as tricksters, garappa are absolutely dedicated to keeping their word. When captured or bested in contest by humans, they are usually forced by their victors to promise to stop drowning people, playing pranks, making noises in the woods, or similar concessions. Over the centuries, Shinto sects which revere garappa have worked to earn promises from them to cease doing evil; as a result garappa attacks have become less and less common over time. Garappa also occasionally serve humans by catching fish or planting rice fields, and they are credited with teaching the ancient people of Kyushu the art of making poultices.
- source : yokai.com

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. Things a Kappa dislikes and fears .
Especially dislikes of the Garappa from Kyushu.

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Garappa Don ガラッパドン - Toda Kannon 戸田観音 - 観音堂 Kannon-Do
鹿児島県薩摩川内市中村町 / Nakamuracho, Satsumasendai, Kagoshima

The Toda Kannon temple has been erected in 1459 on orders of the lord o the castle 宮之城 Miyanojo, Shibuya Tokushige Kedo-In 渋谷（祁答院）徳重.

The following legends date from this time.

Lord Tokushige had a beautiful daughter.
One day she went to play at the river with seven lady attendants, but by some strange accident she fell into the river. The ladies tried to save her, but she sank down to the riverbed and did not come up again.
The ladies, who all felt guilty of this accident, drowned themselves in the river too.

A few days later the body of the princes and the other ladies were found and Lord Tokushige built the temple 観音堂 Kannon-Do by the riverside where it all happened.
He thought the real cause of her death was the lord of the river, the Garappa ガラッパ（河童), so he had this statue made and placed at the feet of the Kannon statue.
He also had a stone memorial erected stating that no Garappa would never do malicious things around here.
Well, maybe because of all this, there have never been water accidents around here any more.

At the Toda Kannon there is a Kappa statue to our day. It might be a new statue made a lot later. But the figure does not seem to be a true Kappa, since the body is all covered in fish scales. The figure also has its arms and legs spreading out, and might snow the Kappa suffering from the Lord's wrath.
Even now many people come here to pray for protection from water accidents.

The Shibuya clan 渋谷 later moved on to Kanagawa and even the Shibuya ward of Tokyo is related to it.
He came to Kagoshima around 1248. Their ancestor was Kawasaki Shige-Ie, who helped defend the capital of Kyoto during the late Heian period and was granted the name of Shibuya..

- reference : japanmystery.com

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八代地方に伝わる民話 Hiko-Ichi Legend 彦一
from Yachidai, Kumamoto, Kyushu

彦一と河童の相撲 - ガラッパ Hiko-Ichi and the Kappa (Garappa) doing Sumo

. . Sumoo　河童相撲　Kappa Sumo wrestling . .

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. butsudan　仏壇と伝説 legends about the Buddhist family altar .

In the 曽於郡 Soo district the Garappa comes for a revenge, if the God of Water is not properly respected.
But if people eat the rice offered at the Butsudan, he will not be able to harm them.
People will smell of the incense and the Garappa thinks it is the soul of a dead ancestor coming down.

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. kamon 家紋 family crest and Garappa .

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旧12月はじめの巳の日に仏壇に豆腐や餅を供える。四国でも各地により多少相違はあるが、この日は死霊が訪れてくる日だと信じていた。

. Tōfu kozō 豆腐小僧 Tofu Kozo, The Tofu Boy .

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. butsudan no hai 仏壇の灰 ashes from the family altar .
- Things a Kappa does not like!

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上総国である家の子供が友達に誘われ川遊びに行こうとしたので、母親がまじないに仏壇に供えた飯を食べていけと告げたところ、それは嫌だと友達が逃げた。河童が化けていたのである。

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. Yamanokami 山の神 God of the Mountain .

source : sinnurikabe ...

In Summer, Garappa is 川の神 a river deity, in Winter, be becomes Yamanokami.
His call is ピーピー pii pii. If someone goes to the river in the late evening to fetch water, he can see the Garappa.

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Kizakura

Kizakura is located in Fushimi, the southern part of Kyoto, the oldest sake brewing area in Japan.
In Fushimi, you can still find many of old Saka-Gura ( sake breweries) with distinctive white walls, dark wooden paneling and Kawara tiles. Their appearance is unchanged to this day.
"Fushi-Mizu": Fushimi's quality ground water, is best suited to the brewing of sake, brining out the full flavor of rice and creating high quality sake with a smooth texture.

- source : kizakura.co.jp/ja/en

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Kizakura Kappa Country 黄桜 - キザクラカッパカントリー
Fushimi, Kyoto

Gekkeikan, Kizakura
is another sake brewery worth a look while you’re in the neighbourhood. The vast complex houses both sake and beer breweries, courtyard gardens and a small gallery dedicated to
the mythical (and sneaky) creature Kappa.

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Kizakura - Kappa Museum 　かっぱの伝説 Kappa Information and legends

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黄桜カッパ広報部 Kizakura Kappa on facebook

カッパ課長 Kappa Kacho

Kappa Kacho often posts funny Kappa images.

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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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