The weird and wonderful world of Japanese beasties. My favourite, rather boringly, is the kappa. When I mentioned Japanese monsters, A. immediately reeled off her "favourites": karakasaobake, hitotsumekozou and rokurokubi.
Sandy in Monkey was a kappa. In the Edo period, there was a widespread belief in these water monsters. There were even "kappaology" tracts on their natural history [1,2]. The Yoshitoshi print above shows a basic "kappa control method".
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Well, it provides an excellent excuse - 'sorry about that, just shooing off a kappa'!
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