kappa

Kappa — a river creature.

Tono5 tales

• Tale 55The girl who conceived a kappa's childMany kappa, a river creature, lived along the Sarugaishi River, and in a house in Matsuzaki village there was, across two generations, someone who…
• Tale 56The abandoned kappa child disappearsIn a certain house in Kamigo village too, a child that seemed to be a kappa, a river creature, was born. Because its whole body was red and its mouth…
• Tale 57The footprints of the kappaIt was not rare to see the footprints of a kappa on the sand of the riverbank, and they were especially many the day after rain. Like a monkey's…
• Tale 58The capture of the kappa who pulled a horseAt the house of Shinya, when they took a horse to cool it at a pool, a kappa, a river creature, tried to pull the horse in but was instead dragged…
• Tale 59A sighting of a red-faced kappaElsewhere, kappa, a river creature, were said to have blue faces, but the kappa of Tono were said to have red faces. When Sasaki's great-grandmother…