Water Spirits

A one-eyed, three-fingered shape rising from a flooded paddy, crying 'Give back my field!'

A whale of bare bones surfacing off Shimane in the rain, followed by fish and birds nobody can put a name to.

A saw-toothed river child who catches fish faster than any human—the kappa's rougher cousin.

A baby crying from the middle of the river—wade out toward it and you do not wade back.

A blind, biwa-carrying giant who wades the open sea and asks travellers questions with no safe answer.

A fierce, scaled water-tiger relative of the kappa that drags victims beneath the river.

A hairy, grinning river yokai—cousin of the kappa—that loves eggplants and startles bathers.

A Japanese merfolk—part human, part fish—whose flesh grants immortality to whoever eats it.

A three-legged, beaked mermaid-like being that rises from the sea to foretell and ward off epidemics.

Ghosts of the drowned who beg for a ladle, then use it to swamp and sink your boat.

A savage ox-headed monster that haunts coasts and preys on humans.

A river otter that shapeshifts and plays tricks, a smaller cousin of the kappa.

A turban-snail that lives long enough to become a shapeshifting sea demon.

A giant spider that takes the form of a seductive woman to ensnare men.

An unseen presence heard washing red beans by the river at night.

A huge black sea spirit that rises to capsize ships in calm waters.

A serpent-bodied woman by the water who lures victims to their doom.

A mischievous, turtle-like river imp with a water-filled dish on its head.