Tale 59 — A sighting of a red-faced kappa
Elsewhere, kappa, a river creature, were said to have blue faces, but the kappa of Tono were said to have red faces. When Sasaki's great-grandmother was a child, she saw a red-faced boy among the walnut trees in the garden, and it was said that this was a kappa.
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