Unsolved:Azukiarai

Short description: Phenomenon in Japanese folklore

The azukiarai as depicted in Takehara Shunsen's Ehon Hyaku Monogatari.

While the perpetrator is seldom seen, he is often described as a short-statured man of grotesque appearance with a large balding head, crooked teeth, thin moustache, large bulging yellow eyes, wearing ragged clothes and bent over a pail washing azuki beans. Azukiarai is sometimes blamed on a tanuki (raccoon dog) or weasel.

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