Legend has it that "every year yōkai led by the yokai Nurarihyon, will take to the streets during summer nights."
Nurarihyon | nurarihyon |
Alternatively, he was said to have transformed into an Ootengu (greater tengu), whom, along with nurarihyon, the nine-tailed kitsune Tamamo-no-Mae and the oni Shuten-dōji, are often called the four greatest yōkai of Japan.