Lord Tsuchimikado

Tsuchimikado Sama/ Lord Tsuchimikado つちみかどさま (Tsuchimikadosama) is the monster appeared in Kôujin 荒神 (Kou Jin), a novelization by Miyuki Miyabe in 2014, and a live action TV drama was aired in 2018.

Novelization
Original form somewhat resembles a giant salamander or eye-less animals regarding its head while humanity compared it to a toad, snake, and a lizard albeit lacking eyes and having two tails.

Original and second forms completely lacks eyes, and its skin is extremely hardened with slimy substances. Second and third forms have vivid scales.

After losing one of its tails and tongue, it evolved into a bipedal form resembling certain species of reptiles or amphibians, or dinosaurs with smaller arms. Its blood transforms its skin into vivid scales.

Third form more resembles a human except for its head which strongly resembles that of a snake with vivid eyes. Its state is largely affected by which of Akane's spirit or Danjô Soya's spirit is dominant over the other; when the former is dominant, it is pure white and has smoother skin and black eyes, and when the latter is dominant, its eye bursts, and it has black scales.

TV Drama
The most notable differences from the original novelization is to have multiple eyes and its skin depiction and coloration. The original form resembles a crocodile in general and also has elongated fangs on lower jaw like that of Gamera.

Personality
It irrationally attacks and prey on humans regardless of being full or not. When being full, it emits pellets like that of Gyaos.

Gastric juice and Breath
Its gastric juice is highly acidic and combustionable.

In the second and the third forms, it performed to breath on fires to create devastating fires, and it can aim targets with its breath by pursing its mouth which is different from the first form.

Its lung capacity and breathing are extraordinary large and strong that a single snort is powerful enough to blow a man away.

Specially designed sound of temple bells
These sounds were designed to lure it.

Trivia

 * 2016 film Shin Godzilla movie was partially based on Kôujin, and depiction of the monster was based on Godzilla.
 * Author Miyuki stated that Lord Tsuchimikado's depictions were based on smaller to mid-sized monsters such as King Kong.
 * Some readers indicate that the novelization was partially based on "Sankebetsu brown bear incident" took place on Hokkaido in 1915.

Novelization
Kôujin (2014)

Books
Kôujin Emaki

Live Action TV Drama
Kôujin (2018)