yama-onna

Yama-onna — a woman of the mountains.

Tono6 tales

• Tale 3The black-haired woman of the mountains and the yama-otokoThe hunter Sasaki Kahei encountered a woman with long black hair in the mountains and shot her down with his gun. As proof, he cut off her hair and…
• Tale 4A woman with a child crossing a bamboo-grass fieldAs Kichibei of Yamaguchi village was cutting bamboo grass on Mount Nekkodachi, a beautiful woman carrying a child on her back came walking across the…
• Tale 5Yama-otoko and yama-onna appear at Fuefuki PassFuefuki Pass, which had been a shortcut toward the coast, came to be feared by people after rumors spread that one might meet a yama-otoko, a man of…
• Tale 34The woman of the Hanaremori choja mansionThe mountains of Shiromi led on to the Chojayashiki in Hanaremori, an uninhabited place; a man who burned charcoal there saw, at night, a long-haired…
• Tale 35The woman who runs across ShiromiThe younger brother of Sasaki's grandfather, while gathering mushrooms and lodging for the night at Shiromi, saw a woman go as if running through the…
• Tale 49Record of strange happenings at SennindoHalfway up Sennin Pass stood Sennindo, a hall enshrining a mountain hermit, and travelers kept the custom of writing down the strange things they met…