Tsurara-onna
Tsurara-onna is a Japanese folktale about an icicle that became a woman, so it is often confused with yuki-onna.
Summary
A single man was looking at the icicles hanging under the eaves of his home and sighed saying "I'd like a wife as beautiful as these icicles," and just as he wished, a beautiful woman appeared who wanted to be his wife. This woman was an incarnation of an icicle, and there are variations on how this plays out.;Aomori Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, and Tōhoku region
;Akita Prefecture
;Other
Similar folktales
In many places, there are similar folktales about how a single man charmed by the beauty of icicles would have a woman suddenly appear wishing to be his wife who in the end was actually an icicle, and how those stories play out in the end differ.;Echigo Province ―"Kanekori-jorō"
;Yamagata Prefecture―"Suga-jorō"