Yokai of Kyūshū

A shark-shaped sea monster whose spine-covered tail pulls sailors under in near silence.

A white glow that rises from the sea and stalls a boat until someone drives it off.

Her hair is always wet. Smile back at her, and she stays with you for life.

An old woman who runs alongside speeding cars on all fours, a paper reading 'Turbo' taped to her back.

A weasel-shaped thing that goes for cattle and horses, listed among the beasts in an Edo encyclopedia.

The sea beast the hare of Inaba tricked—read as crocodile by some scholars and as shark by others.

A one-eyed, hairy mountain child—the kappa's mountain form—that helps loggers in exchange for food.

A horse's head that dangles from an old hackberry tree, neighing to frighten passersby.

A scaled water-tiger relative of the kappa that bites children who tease it.

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

A forgotten koto that grows a face to show its grudge at being forgotten.

A little general armored in cast-off cups and plates who marshals the household crockery.

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

The spirit that dwells in an old tree; felling its host brings misfortune.

A cat that gains supernatural powers with age and walks on two legs.

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