A整理 of the Mikari-bā (Mikakari-bā) yokai as preserved in folklore. She appears on Koto-yōka (the eighth days of the month) as a one-eyed crone, enforcing restraint on housework and outings. Her act of “borrowing” winnowing baskets and human eyes links to avoidance of mesh-patterned tools and symbols with many eyes, giving rise to countermeasures like placing baskets or sieves at the gate, or fixing a mesh basket to a pole on the roof ridge. In the Kōhoku, Yokohama accounts, her greed extends to gleaning even fallen ears of grain, and depictions of her carrying fire in her mouth serve as a caution against conflagration. In southern Chiba, customs of taboo and house-seclusion called “Mikari” (body-substitution) recast pre-festival liminality as a yokai rule. Despite regional variation, these tales share a framework that transmits norms of household safety, fire prevention, and labor abstinence at seasonal thresholds from winter to spring. Creative embellishments are set aside in favor of points attested in Kanto eyewitness reports and folklore records.