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Kappa 河童
Posted on March 1, 2020 by Obakepedia
By Katerina Kuzel
This month’s bakemono is none other than the infamous kappa, which is considered to be the best-known folk creature in all of Japan, and for good reason. The earliest reported story of a kappa can be found in the Nihon Shoki, which is the second-oldest book on classical Japanese history. These stories are also found all over Japan from Okinawa to Hokkaido. Stories of kappa fluctuate between the kappa being a helpful, obedient servant, to a deadly creature with some odd and unpleasant habits.
Because of the abundance of stories about kappa, throughout Japan, there are about eighty different variations on the naming of a kappa. Kappa (河童) itself means river child, but some of the names reflect the creature’s physical resemblance or are even indicative of the kappa’s traits. Examples include dagame, meaning a soft-shelled turtle, and omahiki, meaning horse-puller (since kappa are known for drowning horses).
The kappa’s appearance also has a lot of variation. The color of a kappa is often described as a blue-yellow, with a blackish blue face, but there are countless variations. Some kappa are described with hair all over their bodies, while others are described with scales. This comes from the idea that kappa either look like monkeys or turtles.
Even though the colors of a kappa have many variations, kappa almost always are depicted with a turtle-like shell on their back and with a sharp beak-like mouth. Another commonly described trait is the dish-like cavity on top of the kappa’s head. This dish is called a sara (皿), which contains water and represents the life force of the kappa. If the liquid on the top of their heads dries up or spills, the kappa will lose all of its power, and sometimes die.
In one story some children are playing by the water when a child, who they do not know, challenges them to sumo. When the other children look at the child closely they realize it is actually a kappa, since “the child” has a water dish on its head. Upon realizing this the children accept the challenge, but before the match begins they shake their heads, which the kappa imitates causing almost all the water from its head to fall out. Since it is weakened the kappa is forced to retreat.
A common theme in defeating a kappa when confronted with the challenge of sumo or another confrontation is simply to bow politely. The kappa, though mischievous, is a polite creature who respects human ritual. If you bow, it will also bow in response, spilling its water, thus losing all of its power.
In some cases, the kappa will be stuck in place until the water bowl on top of its head is refilled. In these cases, if a human is the one who refills it, the kappa will be grateful and perform any number of tasks for the human. In most cases, farmers would try to befriend a kappa so that they would irrigate their fields.
In other cases, humans who help a kappa will be delivered a fresh fish which is regarded as a mark of good fortune to the family that receives it.
In Aomori prefecture, kappa traditionally were called medochi. Some of you may have heard about the Kappa-no-Yu onsen in Mutsu city. This onsen actually gets its name from a legend about the kappa:
About 1,000 or so years ago the priest who discovered Osorezan, Jikaku Daishi, got lost when traveling to Oku-Yagen. He fell from a cliff and injured himself badly. A kappa appeared from nowhere and carried him on his back. The next day the priest awoke to butterbur leaves covering his body inside of a warm bath. He was surprised to discover that his pain had disappeared. Daishi was so grateful to the kappa that he named the hot springs Kappa-no-Yu.
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Kappa 河童
Posted on March 1, 2020 by Obakepedia
By Katerina Kuzel
This month’s bakemono is none other than the infamous kappa, which is considered to be the best-known folk creature in all of Japan, and for good reason. The earliest reported story of a kappa can be found in the Nihon Shoki, which is the second-oldest book on classical Japanese history. These stories are also found all over Japan from Okinawa to Hokkaido. Stories of kappa fluctuate between the kappa being a helpful, obedient servant, to a deadly creature with some odd and unpleasant habits.
Because of the abundance of stories about kappa, throughout Japan, there are about eighty different variations on the naming of a kappa. Kappa (河童) itself means river child, but some of the names reflect the creature’s physical resemblance or are even indicative of the kappa’s traits. Examples include dagame, meaning a soft-shelled turtle, and omahiki, meaning horse-puller (since kappa are known for drowning horses).
The kappa’s appearance also has a lot of variation. The color of a kappa is often described as a blue-yellow, with a blackish blue face, but there are countless variations. Some kappa are described with hair all over their bodies, while others are described with scales. This comes from the idea that kappa either look like monkeys or turtles.
Even though the colors of a kappa have many variations, kappa almost always are depicted with a turtle-like shell on their back and with a sharp beak-like mouth. Another commonly described trait is the dish-like cavity on top of the kappa’s head. This dish is called a sara (皿), which contains water and represents the life force of the kappa. If the liquid on the top of their heads dries up or spills, the kappa will lose all of its power, and sometimes die.
Another common trait is their love of cucumbers and sumo wrestling. Kappa are not very big in size and are often described as being as big as a 4-year-old child, and sometimes in rare cases can be the same size as a 10-year-old, but still never very large. Due to their size, kappa will only challenge children to wrestle, which often results in the child drowning.
In one story some children are playing by the water when a child, who they do not know, challenges them to sumo. When the other children look at the child closely they realize it is actually a kappa, since “the child” has a water dish on its head. Upon realizing this the children accept the challenge, but before the match begins they shake their heads, which the kappa imitates causing almost all the water from its head to fall out. Since it is weakened the kappa is forced to retreat.
A common theme in defeating a kappa when confronted with the challenge of sumo or another confrontation is simply to bow politely. The kappa, though mischievous, is a polite creature who respects human ritual. If you bow, it will also bow in response, spilling its water, thus losing all of its power.
In some cases, the kappa will be stuck in place until the water bowl on top of its head is refilled. In these cases, if a human is the one who refills it, the kappa will be grateful and perform any number of tasks for the human. In most cases, farmers would try to befriend a kappa so that they would irrigate their fields.
In other cases, humans who help a kappa will be delivered a fresh fish which is regarded as a mark of good fortune to the family that receives it.
In Aomori prefecture, kappa traditionally were called medochi. Some of you may have heard about the Kappa-no-Yu onsen in Mutsu city. This onsen actually gets its name from a legend about the kappa:
About 1,000 or so years ago the priest who discovered Osorezan, Jikaku Daishi, got lost when traveling to Oku-Yagen. He fell from a cliff and injured himself badly. A kappa appeared from nowhere and carried him on his back. The next day the priest awoke to butterbur leaves covering his body inside of a warm bath. He was surprised to discover that his pain had disappeared. Daishi was so grateful to the kappa that he named the hot springs Kappa-no-Yu.
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