Amefurikozō

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Amefurikozō (雨降り小僧, "rainfall kid") is a weather spirit illustrated by Toriyama Sekien in his Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki. It appears as a strange child carrying a paper lantern and wearing a hat made from the husk of an old umbrella. According to Sekien, it is in service of U-shi, a Chinese god of precipitation, and thus has the power to make the rain fall.

It also appears in a short manga story of the same name by comic artist Osamu Tezuka.

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Mizuki, Shigeru (2004). Mujara 5: Tōhoku, Kyūshū-hen. Japan: Soft Garage, 8. ASIN 4861330270.  [1]

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