Yamajijii (山爺) or Yamachichi (山父) (or, depending on area, "yamanjii") is a type of yōkai told about in Japan. It is said to be a yōkai that takes on the apeparance of an old man with one eye and one leg. According to the publication by the Tosa Folkloristics Department, the "Early Modern Tosa Yōkai Documentation (近世土佐妖怪資料, Kinsei Tosa Yōkai Shiryou?)," with the Kōchi Prefecture being the first, it was passed down in Shikoku, and with a height of about 3-4 shaku (about 90-120 centimeters), and there is gray hair growing all over its body, and although it has two eyes, since one of them is large and the other is unusually small, it is seen as having just one eye. It is said that the legend where it has one eye is a misunderstanding of these two eyes that were seen as one eye and then passed down. Since it has teeth that have a hardness that could easily cruch the bones of wild boar or a monkey etc., hunters would tame this yamajijii with bait, and use it to d...