Hyōsube

[5] Also, in the past during Kasuga Jinja's construction, the artisans at that time used a secret method to give life to a doll which provided labor in the shrine's construction, but after the shrine's completion, the unneeded doll was thrown away into a river and turned into a kappa to cause harm to people, and the First assistant to the Minister (Hyōbu-taifu), Shimada Maru quelled it, which is why it is said that the kappa has come to be called Hyōsube.

[5] The chief priest of Shiomi Jinja, the Mōri family, and to ward off water disasters and kappa, there is the phrase "Hyōsube, forget not the promise, the one who stands at this river is a child of the old Sugawara" (兵主部よ約束せしは忘るなよ川立つをのこ跡はすがわら).

[8] There is also a story about a woman who saw Hyōsube ravaging an eggplant field who subsequently had an illness that cause her entire body to become purple, which eventually led to her death.

This is said to originally be from Satō Arifumi's writing, Ichiban Kuwashii Nihon Yōkai Zukan (いちばんくわしい日本妖怪図鑑).

[1] In yōkai depictions from the Edo Period such as by Toriyama Sekien among others, they have a very hairy appearance as in the legends, a bald head, and making a humorous pose as if they had already eaten someone.

[10] Hyōsube are small creatures with hairy bodies and bald heads,[10] sharp teeth, and long claws.