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Hatahiro

Hatahiro is a type of yōkai depicted in the Konjaku Hyakki Shūi by Toriyama Sekien. This particular creature relates to a grudge which says: A woman’s husband left her and so she abandoned her loom. The grudge transformed her intro a great serpent twenty spans long and she quested to find the one who left her.
Alias Hatahiro (機尋)
Real Names/Alt Names “Loom span”
Characteristics Yōkai, Enlightenment and Neoclassicism, Japanese
Creators/Key Contributors Toriyama Sekien, ○
First Appearance Japanese folklore
First Publisher ○
Appearance List Konjaku Hyakki Shūi (今昔百鬼拾遺, “Supplement to The Hundred Demons from the Present and the Past”, c. 1781) Vol. 2 “Mist”
Sample Read Konjaku Hyakki Shūi Vol. 2 “Mist” (c. 1781) [Smithsonian]
Description Hatahiro is a type of yōkai depicted in the Konjaku Hyakki Shūi by Toriyama Sekien. This particular creature relates to a grudge which says: A woman’s husband left her and so she abandoned her loom. The grudge transformed her intro a great serpent twenty spans long and she quested to find the one who left her.
Source Hatahiro – A History of Japan
Konjaku Hyakki Shūi Vol. 2 'Mist' (c. 1781) | Toriyama Sekien
Konjaku Hyakki Shūi Vol. 2 ‘Mist’ (c. 1781) | Toriyama Sekien