Ame-onna

The Ame - onna (Japanese雨 女, literally " rain woman " ) is a fictional character from the Japanese folk belief. She is a Yōkai and the people mostly well-disposed.

Description

The Ame - onna to appear on wet evenings in the shape of a woman licking her hands. Their presence announces rain. Even today many farmers pray to the appearance of the Ame - onna, so that their fields are filled with rain. Toriyama Sekien mentioned in his work Gazu Hyakki Yakō that their shape is probably due to a Chinese mountain goddess, is narrated by the, they appear in the morning as a cloud above the summits of Mount Wushan and evening walk them down as rain.

In modern Japanese slang is called with Ame - onna, or the male Pedant Ame - otoko, a person who is said to have joked that she brings the rain, wherever she goes.