Rainfall Page-Boy（ah-meh-FOO-ree koh-ZOH）

Based on Toriyama Sekien’s imagery, this version foregrounds the character of a page serving the Rain Master. It appears with a Japanese umbrella stripped of its ribs worn like a hood and a lantern in hand. Its origins lie more in printed books than in oral folk tradition, and in yellow-covered comic books it shows up as a menial helper. The ideas of rain and service to nobility converge, shaping it as an attendant akin to small child-deity retainers. It does not wield an explicit divinity that summons rain, remaining subordinate to a being that governs rain’s power. Depictions vary—one eye, hat, lantern—depending on period and source, with no single fixed image. Lacking a known local provenance, it spread notably through Edo’s publishing culture.