kaijin

Updated: July 22, 2026

For Bimbo, like all his neighbors, had often heard stories of Kaijin, the god of the thunder-drums, who lives in the skies and rides on the storm, and sometimes kills people by throwing out of the clouds at them a terrible creature like a cat, with iron-like claws and a hairy body.

William Elliot Griffis - Japanese Fairy World: Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan