Umi Zatō's attestation in the supplied materials is limited to its appearance as an item in illustrated yōkai catalogues. The primary source named is Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (the first volume of his 1776 e-hon tetralogy), and the figure also appears in Hyakki Yagyō emakimono such as the Matsui Library's Hyakki Yagyō Emaki. The sources supplied do not record any independent origin myth, narrative tradition, or oral lore for Umi Zatō beyond these pictorial inclusions; thus there is no known folkloric origin story or mythic genealogy provided in the available material (Gazu Hyakki Yagyō; Hyakki Yagyō Emaki references).
The supplied sources identify Umi Zatō by its appearance in Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō and in Hyakki Yagyō emakimono (e.g., the Matsui Library emaki) but do not supply a textual descriptive account of its physical features. Visual information about Umi Zatō is therefore limited to the imagery in those plates: it is known from the illustration as an individuated yōkai entry in Sekien's visual lexicon. The provided materials do not include plate numbers, transcriptions of Sekien's caption for this entity, nor an extended pictorial analysis, so no further authoritative physical details can be asserted from the supplied sources.
The sources consulted for this entry (notably Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō and the Hyakki Yagyō emakimono tradition) do not attribute specific powers, behaviors, or interactions with humans to Umi Zatō. While Sekien's compendia sometimes include invented or playful entries, the available documentation for Umi Zatō contains no recorded abilities or customary actions; its role in the sources is limited to pictorial inclusion without accompanying folkloric description.
Abumi-guchi
A Japanese yōkai classed as a tsukumogami: an animated stirrup (abumi) depicted in Sekien Toriyama's Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro. Traditional accounts say it is formed from a stirrup that belonged to a soldier who fell in battle and that it waits where the stirrup lies for its dead owner to return.
Abura-sumashi
A yōkai spirit from the Amakusa region of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, said to inhabit mountain passes. Traditionally explained as the ghost of a person who stole oil, it appears to surprise travelers and is represented in modern media with a straw-coat body and a potato- or stone-like head.
Akaname
Akaname is a Japanese yōkai associated with baths, bathtubs, toilets, and other places where scum and filth accumulate. Traditionally depicted as a child-like creature that licks grime, it functions in folklore as a cautionary figure tied to cleanliness; a few narrative variants cast it as dangerously predatory.
Akateko
Akateko (赤手児, lit. 'red child's hand') is a yōkai from Japanese folklore commonly told as a small, red, disembodied child's hand that appears from trees—especially the Japanese honey locust—and startles travelers; in some regional variants it is accompanied by a specter of a young woman or manifests as paired foot- or leg-like apparitions. Accounts vary between mostly harmless trickster apparition and a violent variant that attacks humans.
Akubōzu
Akubōzu (灰坊主, Akubōzu) is a household yōkai from parts of Akita and Iwate Prefectures in northern Japan said to live in the ashes of the hearth. Sources say they appear when people (notably children) play with or dig in hearth/furnace ash; the figure is cited as part of a broader Tōhoku motif warning against disturbing ash.
Akuma
Akuma (悪魔／あくま) in Japanese sources is an evil spirit, devil, or demon associated with misfortune and mental disturbance. The term appears in Buddhist texts and Heian-period literature and was later used to translate the Christian figure of Satan, as well as the Buddhist Mara.
Akurojin-no-hi
Akurojin-no-hi (悪路神の火, "fire of the god of the bad road") is a flamelike ghost from the folklore of Mie Prefecture, Japan. It is reported to appear on rainy nights; those who encounter it and do not run away are said to become gravely ill. The phenomenon is sparsely documented and is usually compared to will-o'-the-wisp type ghost-lights.
Amabie
Amabie is a mid-19th-century Japanese yogenjū-type wondrous creature attested in kawaraban and related pamphlet culture that emerges from the sea (in canonical accounts) to prophesy about harvests and epidemics and prescribes that its image be drawn and shown to the sick as a protective measure.
Amanojaku
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Amefurikozō
Amefurikozō (雨降小僧 or 雨降り小僧) is an Edo-period yōkai figure depicted in classical illustrated and popular print culture as a youthful attendant associated with rain. Classical sources (notably Sekien Toriyama's Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki) present it as a kozō-type servant linked by captional wordplay to a rain deity; later popular literature elaborates its rain-producing role and playful mischief on rainy nights.
Ameonna
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Amorōnagu
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- [2]Gazu Hyakki Yagyō — Wikipedia. Wikipedia contributors. "Gazu Hyakki Yagyō." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.wiki
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- [4]Hyakki Yagyō Emaki (Matsui Library) — referenced in secondary sources. Reference to Umi Zatō's appearance in Hyakki Yagyō emakimono such as the Matsui Library's Hyakki Yagyō Emaki (as noted in cited secondary sources).other