nurarihyon

thumb|Nurarihyon (ぬらりひょん) from Bakemono no e (化物之繪, c. 1700), Harry F. Bruning Collection of Japanese Books and Manuscripts, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, [[Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.|alt=]] thumb|right|200px|"Nurarihyon" from the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi right|thumb|200px|"Nūrihyon" (nurarihyon) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Toriyama Sekien]] '''' is a Japanese yōkai.

==Concept== Generally, like the hyōtannamazu, they are considered a monster that cannot be caught. One can find that it often appears in the yōkai emaki of the Edo Period, but any further details about it are unknown. In folktale legends, they are a member of the Hyakki Yagyō (in the Akita Prefecture), and there is a type of umibōzu in the Okayama prefecture that can be found under that name, but it is not clear whether they came before or after the "nurarihyon" in the pictures.