Hyōsube
Sign in to saveright|thumb|140px|"Hyōsube" (へうすへ) from the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi right|thumb|200px|"Hyōsube" (ひやうすべ) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Sekien Toriyama]] Hyōsube () is a Japanese yōkai. There are legends about them in many areas such as Saga Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture.
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Vinony's link graph records 242 inbound references to Hyōsube, and connects out to kitsune, Toriyama Sekien and Yamabiko.
Vinony files it under Kappa (folklore), Water spirits and Yōkai.
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Legends by area
- Characteristics
- Origin
- Description
- References
right|thumb|140px|"Hyōsube" (へうすへ) from the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi right|thumb|200px|"Hyōsube" (ひやうすべ) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Sekien Toriyama]] Hyōsube () is a Japanese yōkai. There are legends about them in many areas such as Saga Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture.
It is a child-sized river monster from Kyūshū that lives in underwater caves. It prefers to come out at night and loves to eat eggplants. It is a cousin of the supernatural yōkai in kappa folklore.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hyōsube” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.