Maya Calendar

Yōkai traits

Cat Maiden is a label given to women who display feline habits or tastes, appearing in early modern eyewitness notes, sideshow bills, and yomihon fiction. It lacks a fixed image as a supernatural being; most references use it as a nickname for eccentric people or performers. It turns up in Edo and Kamigata sideshows, in the odd-woman tale of the yomihon Ehon Sayoshigure, and in anecdotal miscellanies. Rather than a shape-shifting monster, it is best understood as a human eccentric compared to a cat.