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Danger - watch out! If you go in the water, the kappa will get you!
Among the most famous and popular of yōkai, the kappa is a creature that ranges over the whole of Japan, subject to a wide range of interpretations and kin to a whole tribe of strange aquatic goblins of similar design. But this little water monster is still consistantly known for some unique and often rather silly characteristics.
The first of these is the water-filled dish, or moist cap-like plate on top of its head. The water in the kappa's head provides it with its supernatural power, and if it dries up or spills the creature will lose its great strength or even become too weak to move. The kappa is very proud of its hydropowered brawn, and often challenges human beings to bouts of sumō wrestling. Clever people, however, will trick the kappa into bowing or doing a handstand before the match, and when the water has spilled from the kappa's head the the now-weakened water imp always loses, which makes the boastful creature very upset.
Another of the kappa's distinctive traits is its love of the humble cucumber. This affinity may have its origins in a custom of floating the year's first crop of cucumbers and eggplants (which kappa are also said to favor) into the local river in order to appease water gods and hungry ghosts. Swimming during auspicious days also puts you at risk of kappa attack, perhaps because the kappa will mistake you for these offerings3. In the Tōkyō area, at least, it was once said that if you write the name of your family on the first cucumber harvest and toss it into the river, it will stave off kappa attacks. But cucumbers, or rather the smell of them, are more universally seen as inviting the predations of kappa, and almost everywhere in Japan people warn against eating these vegetables before swimming. The ends of the cucumbers seem to be particularly attractive.
But while the kappa may love cucumbers, it does not merely pose a danger to people it mistakes for vegetables. The kappa also shows interest in the backsides of humans and other large animals, often seeking to pull the nourishing guts out through its victim's backside and devour them. Its favorite part of this is the human shirikodama, a fabled ball found near the anus and an item rivaling the cucumber on the kappa's list of favorite foods. The extraction of this element by kappa is said to cause the loosening of the anus in drowning victims. Stories of kappa pulling horses and children into rivers are very common. Read more.
Beware! The kappa is a really popular yokai, or spirit/imp/demon. Usually these signs just say take care, danger, there is water, a river here! Do not swim! However, this one has the added danger of the Kappa.
A warning plate inside the cab of preserved London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class Q7 steam locomotive 901 at the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum at North Road Station in Darlington in County Durham (UK).
901 was designed and built by Sir Vincent Raven at Darlington Works in 1919 for the North Eastern Railway. 901 was withdrawn on December 3rd 1962 as British Railways 63460.
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Warning Sign about Protected Species at the gate of an Oil Palm plantation (Borneo)
It says: No Hunting / No Poaching (trapping) those animals
Unfortunately most of the species shown here have now practically disappeared, not just because of hunting or poaching, but mostly because of deforestation (rain forests are being cut and replaced by oil palm plantations like the one displaying that sign).
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No Busking Sign under Southwark Bridge in London (UK).
Photography by David on his travels and posted here with very kind permission.
... so I'm not providing it, and you'll need to guess. Cropped, no other editing.
From end of 2013 to autumn 2015 I kept a kind of a visual, irregular diary on Ipernity. There were only three or four people who knew about it. As Ipernity will close down by end of January 2017, I’m migrating eight sets of photos from that time, hopefully one per day during the next eight days. The common denominator in this fifth set, as in the fourth set, is details.
A couple of signs at the end of the pier at Kilmore Quay.
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I could not believe my eyes when I saw this roadsign warning motorists and pedestrians of sudden gunfire alongside the road to Lulworth Gunnery range in Dorset UK, whoever fired the shots would have to have done so across to the other side of the road !
The sign is situated very close to a military firing range and tank training ground.
Needless to say that the roadsign has now disapeared
My shadow and the coconut warning sign. Just before me and my pentax was hit by a falling coconut. Camera never worked the same (nor my brain).
The East Garrison of decommissioned and abandoned Fort Ord, February 2007. Site cleared in 2008. Now a housing subdivision.
Reprocessed and replaced, February 2024.
Night, about a minute, natural flashlight.
The warning logo on my Z's sun shade, front passenger side. What do you think? Is it a genuine factory part? ;-)
Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, formerly Bizantium, capital of the (Eastern) Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and of the Republic of Turkey, is a huge multicolored city; on the two sides of a small street I have found two very different examples of the traffic sign warning of children crossing. Note that the children are moving to the right. This instance is reminiscent of the standard Romanian sign, down to the bow in the girls pigtail and to the shape of her handbag.
An Angolan deminer stands within the safe path markers. The area beyond the markers was heavily mined. Luena, Angola.
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Interstate 10 eastbound, around mile marker 506. Either that, or it's a vulgar fraction of seven and zero-zeroths, which might result in the universe collapsing upon itself if solved.
No dogs or barbeques.. well not until September 31st at least which is really October 1st as September only has 30 days.. well it did when I was at school.. ;-0
Polkerris Beach is located near the village of Polkerris in Cornwall (UK).
Photography by my regular photostream contributor David on his travels and is posted here with kind permission.
One of the most often disobeyed signs. This one stands right at the edge of a high cliff on Tinian with a mad ocean crashing against sharp rocks below.
And yeah, count on me to be one of those violators who step beyond the ledge but I lived to post this photo. LoL
A warning sign from the parking lot across the street. Sadly, the implosion was scheduled for 3 AM and I had to be at a conference at 9, so I skipped it.
Warning sign on a container. The triangle is distorted by the shape of the container wall, and looks almost as distorted by gravity. A symbolic sign gone slightly iconic.
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I don't think this stick figure is so much in peril from his dog as he is from the gang banger who seems to really want to mess him up big time. I didn't see much grafitti in New York City in general this time around but this choice of where to tag was a bit odd. This was found in the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in downtown Brooklyn.
Site of fatal hit & run where 14 year old Jasmyn Chan died on Normanton Hill, Intake on 9th may 2014. A man has been charged.
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Title
Striped Bands Painted as Warning Signs on Supporting Girders of Elevated Tracks of MBTA Orange Line, with 1956 Ford Thunderbird in Middle Ground
Contributors
researcher: Gyorgy Kepes (American, 1906-2001)
researcher: Kevin Lynch (American, 1918-1984)
photographer: Nishan Bichajian (American, 20th century)
Date
creation date: 3:30 P.M., March 4, 1957
Location
Creation location: Boston (Massachusetts, United States)
Repository: Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
ID: Kepes/Lynch Collection, 69.95
Period
Modern
Materials
gelatin silver prints
Techniques
documentary photography
Type
Photograph
Copyright
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access Statement
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Identifier
KL_001721
DSpace_Handle