The mujina of Kii-no-kuni-zaka

A man tries to comfort a young woman weeping near Kii-no-kuni-zaka hill and finds she has no eyes, nose or mouth. Lafcadio Hearn puts it down to a mujina.

Wikipedia gives the story under the noppera-bō, a figure with no face. A man walking the Akasaka road towards Edo finds a young woman weeping near Kii-no-kuni-zaka hill. He fears she may mean to kill herself and tries to comfort her. She turns and lets her sleeve fall, and her face has no eyes, nose or mouth. He runs off down the road and comes to a man selling soba noodles.

Hearn, in Kwaidan, puts it all down to a mujina that once walked the hill.

A column published by BEAMS points out that Hearn's story opens with him saying he does not know why the slope is named after the province of Kii. The column explains that in the Edo period the Tokugawa lords of the Kii Wakayama domain kept their main Edo residence across this area, including the ground where the Akasaka Palace and the State Guest House now stand. The slope climbs from the Akasaka-mitsuke crossing toward Yotsuya.