Tsurara-onnaつらら女
the icicle wife
RegionalA man alone in the deep-snow country looks at the icicles hanging bright from his eaves and says aloud: I wish for a wife as beautiful as these. That night, a beautiful woman comes asking to marry him.
Field-guide entries
In this wing
Yamawaro山童
the mountain child
Edo catalogThe kappa entry's flagship claim — one being, river in summer, mountain in winter — gets its mountain half.
Yuki-onna雪女
the snow woman
RegionalThe yuki-onna is winter given a face: a tall pale woman in white who appears in snowstorms, floats without footprints, and freezes the unwary with her breath.