3 Jan 2015

KAPPA - names of Kappa

LINK
http://kappapedia.blogspot.jp/2014/12/names-of-kappa.html

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- KAPPA - 河童 / 合羽 / かっぱ / カッパ - ABC-Index -
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- Names of Kappa 河童の呼称 and types -



source : National Diet Library

Suiko juni-hin no zu 水虎十二品之図
Illustrated Guide to 12 Types of Kappa



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The name is a combination of the word kawa (river) and wappo, an inflection of warabe (child).
A hairy kappa is called a Hyōsube (ひょうすべ).
There are more than eighty other names associated with the kappa in different regions...
... The kappa is typically depicted as roughly humanoid in form and about the size of a child. Its scaly reptilian skin ranges in color from green to yellow or blue.
... webbed hands and feet to live in the water ...
... Although their appearance varies from region to region, the most consistent features are a carapace, a beak for a mouth, and a plate (sara), a flat hairless region on the top of the head that is always wet, and is regarded as the source of the kappa's power. This cavity must be full whenever a kappa is away from the water; if it ever dries out, the kappa loses its power and may even die.
Another notable feature in some stories is that the arms are said to be connected to each other through the torso and can slide from one side to the other.
While they are primarily water creatures, they do on occasion venture on to land. When they do, the plate can be covered with a metal cap for protection. In fact, in some versions of the legends, kappa spend spring and summer in the water, and the rest of the year in the mountains as Yama-no-Kami (山の神, "mountain deities").
Although they are reported to live throughout Japan, they are often said to be particular to Saga Prefecture.
... Kappa are usually seen as mischievous troublemakers or trickster figures. Their pranks range from the relatively innocent, such as loudly passing gas or looking up women's kimonos, to the malevolent, such as drowning people and animals, kidnapping children, and raping women.

- Politeness -
It was believed that, if one was confronted with a kappa, there were a few means of escape. Kappa are obsessed with politeness, so if a person makes a deep bow, it return the gesture, the water in the plate on its head spills out and it is rendered unable to leave the bowing position until the plate is refilled with water from the river in which it lives. If a person refills it, the kappa will serve that person for all eternity.

... Kappa are not entirely antagonistic to human beings. They are curious about human civilization, and they can understand and speak Japanese. They may even befriend human beings in exchange for gifts or offerings of nasu (茄子, Japanese eggplant), soba (そば or 蕎麦, buckwheat noodles), nattō (なっとう or 納豆, fermented soybeans), or kabocha (カボチャ, 南瓜, winter squash), but especially cucumbers, the only food kappa are known to enjoy more than human children.
Japanese parents sometimes write the names of their children, or their own names, on cucumbers and toss them into waters believed to be infested with kappa in order to mollify the creatures and allow the family to bathe.
In some regions, it was customary to eat cucumbers before swimming as protection, but in others it was believed that this act would guarantee an attack.
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

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. Aragoroo Daimyoojin 荒五郎大明神 Aragoro Daimyojin .
- - - - - in Tanushimaru, Fukuoka

dangame

enkoo, enkō "Monkey"

. Fukutaroo, Fukutarō 福太郎 Fukutaro, The Lucky Kappa .

gangi kozoo ガンギコゾウ with body hair and saw-like teeth

gappa ガッパ
gappadoko ガーッパドコ drowning of a kappa

. garappa ガラッパ .
from 八代地方 Yachidai, Kumamoto, Kyushu

gataroo, gatarō がたろう

gawappa

hanzaki はんざき "torn or cut in half"
(referring to the tail that might come off in danger, but the animal is not killed by this)
オオサンショウウオ/大山椒魚 Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus)
. Salamanders of Japan . * 

. hyoosube, hyōsube ひょうすべ Hyosube .

hyoosubo ヒョウスボ (mixed body parts)


. Kappa Daimyoojin 河童大明神 Kappa Daimyojin, Great Kappa Deity .   
Kappa Myoojin カッパ明神 Kappa Myojin


Karin-chan and his pink wife Kururin-chan - カリンちゃん and くるりんちゃん
town mascot of . Tono 遠野 - Iwate 岩手 .   

kawako 川子 / 河子 "river-child"


. kawako 河伯 "earl Kappa", river earl . - Matsue

kawaranbe 河ランベ

kawaso

kawataroo, kawatarō 河太郎 Kawataro

komahiki, komabiki  駒引き "horse puller"

koogoo, kōgo

. 九千坊河童 Kyusenbo kappa - Kusenbo Kappa . from Kyushu


Sanpei, 河童の三平 Kappa no Sanpei by Mizuki Shigeru 水木しげる
- More in the WIKIPEDIA !

senoo kappa 妹尾河童

shookichi Kappa 正吉河童 from Bungo, Oita
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

suijin 水神 "water deity"

suiko 水虎 "water beast"

Suitenguu 水天宮 Suitengu
. - Suijin 水神 Kappa water deity - .   


Unagappa うながっぱ
town mascot of . Tajimi 多治見 - Gifu 岐阜 .   

yamawaro ヤマワロ kappa of the mountains


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. - benevolent Kappa 慈善河童 jizen no Kappa -
helping people, teaching people .
 



The three most famous Kappa regions of Japan 日本三大河童地帯

. - Tanushimaru 田主丸 in Fukuoka 福岡 - .  

. - Ushiku 牛久 in Ibaraki 茨城 -.  

. Tono 遠野 in Iwate 岩手 .  


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- Check out more about this Kappa Anatomy
- source : flamboyant.jp/monster ***

from a suiko and turtle スイコ×カメの系統


from a suiko and monkey スイコ×サルの系統



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河童の呼称 - Names of Kappa

名前の系統 それぞれの呼び名

ガーッパ系 カッパ、ガッパ、ガラッパドンなど
川太郎系 カワタロウ、ガタロウ、ガータロ、ガワンタロなど
川原坊主系 カワラコゾウ、カワラボウズ、カワソウなど
川の殿の系 カワノトノ、カワントン、カワノヌシなど
猿猴系 ホンコウ、ユンコサン、エンゴザルなど
その他 メドチ、ガメ、ヒョウスンポ、コマヒキなど

《「日本伝奇伝説大事典」乾/小池/志村/高橋・角川書店》

- long list of more vocabulary and books
- source : www.ishinotent.co.jp



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