The kappa is a Japanese legendary animal.
It is said that it inhabits rivers, ponds and a swamps throughout Japan.
It has many other names, such as kawataro and gataro.

Around a meter tall, about the size of a four-or-five year old child, the kappa has very little hair on the top of its head, which is shaped like a saucer.
As long as this saucer is full of water, the kappa is alive.

It has large round eyes, a sharp mouth, and webbed hands and feet.
Its skin is either dark red or green and covered with scales.
Both arms are connected to the body and can grow an arm of either.

It likes sumo wrestling, and it often wrestles with children. But the person who is wrestled gets sick.

ShirikodamaiFictitious internal organs of imagined to be in a person's intestines.
The person whom has these pulled out.jis pulled out.

The Kappa has a strong sense of obligation.
It dislikes iron, the deer horn, and the monkey.
It can take the shape of man by patting its head with a the fern leaf.