In Wakayama, people speak of a towering, blue, shadowy monk. In Fukushima, Gifu, and Hiroshima, it is said to be a transformed weasel or tanuki. In Shizuoka, a springtime twilight taboo tale warns that it abducts children from fields. In Nagano, it appears if one circles a pine seven times while holding their breath, declaring, “Don’t step on stones; don’t break pines.” In Okayama, it is a great monk haunting vacant houses. In Yamaguchi, a small monk serving the mountain god challenges people to sumo. In Kagawa, it tempts women toward suicide. Sekien’s image shows a one-eyed monk; scholars point to the hitotsume-bō (one-eyed monk) as a likely source.