Yamajijii

right|thumb|220px|"Yamachichi" from the "Ehon Atsumegusa" right|thumb|200px|"Yamachichi" from the Tosa Obake Zōshi Yamajijii (山爺) or Yamachichi (山父) (or, depending on the area, "yamanjii") is a type of yōkai.

==Summary== It is said to be a yōkai that takes on the appearance of an old man with one eye and one leg. According to the published by the Tosa Folkloristics Department, with the Kōchi Prefecture being the first, it was passed down in Shikoku. It has a height of about three to four shaku (about 90–120 centimeters) with gray hair growing all over its body and, although it has two eyes, since one of them is large and the other is unusually small, it is seen as having just one eye. It is said that the legend where it has one eye is a misunderstanding of these two eyes that were seen as one eye and then passed down. Since it has teeth that could easily crush the bones of wild boar or a monkey, etc., hunters would tame this yamajijii with bait and use it to drive away wolves.