Folklore being
Narikama (Kanagawa)
A self-sounding kettle entity associated with the Narukama rite of Kibitsu Shrine (Okayama); depicted in Toriyama Sekien's Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro (1784).
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A self-sounding kettle entity tied to Kibitsu Shrine's Narukama divination, depicted in Toriyama Sekien's 1784 yokai compendium.
Description
Narikama (the "sounding kettle") is both a household entity tied to old cauldrons and the subject of a divination rite at Kibitsu Shrine in Kita Ward, Okayama. Toriyama Sekien's Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro (1784) depicts Narikama as a bull-headed figure rising from an old kettle, with text linking the image to the Kibitsu Narukama rite. The shrine's Narukama Shinji reads the loudness and length of the sound from a heated cauldron for fortune; its origin is connected to the Ura legend recorded in the Kibitsu Shrine engi. Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari (1776) made "The Cauldron of Kibitsu" a famous tale of this rite. Yanagita Kunio and Orikuchi Shinobu later discussed it within hearth-deity belief. Kanagawa has no distinct local variant; the entry organizes a nationwide entity rooted in Sekien's image and the Kibitsu rite.
Sources
国際日本文化研究センター 怪異・妖怪伝承データベース 鳴釜
Primary source国際日本文化研究センター
国際日本文化研究センター 怪異・妖怪伝承データベース 鳴釜に基づく鳴釜の代表的な典拠整理。
https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/YoukaiDB3/日本妖怪大事典
Secondary source村上健司 編著
日本妖怪大事典などを参照した鳴釜の地域的受容と類縁語の補助確認。
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