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Kappa

Beings · Myth & story · Nature

A water-child of Japanese story, often a river trickster with a water-filled head-dish. Not a Hibagon and not a mermaid.

Shinto

  • Kappa is historically related to Water.

    Chamberlain seats the kappa as the water-sprite of Japanese rivers and ponds — water-being speech, not a tengu or oni dump.

    from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

sources

  • Things Japanese · Basil Hall Chamberlain

    Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese (5th ed. 1905).