What is the name of the Japanese myth about a rabbit who tricks a crocodile?

The Japanese myth about a rabbit who tricks crocodile-like wani into forming a bridge is the White Hare of Inaba.

The story appears in the Kojiki, Japan’s oldest surviving chronicle, compiled in the early eighth century. A hare stranded on Oki Island challenges the wani to prove which group is larger. It persuades them to line up across the sea, then hops over their backs while counting them. Near the shore, the hare boasts that it has tricked them, and the final wani tears off its fur.

The injured animal encounters Ōnamuchi, later known as Ōkuninushi, while he is traveling with his many brothers. The brothers cruelly advise the hare to bathe in salt water and dry in the wind. Ōnamuchi instead tells it to wash in fresh water and roll in cattail pollen, which restores its body. In gratitude, the hare predicts that Ōnamuchi will win Princess Yakami.

English retellings often call the wani crocodiles, but the Japanese word can mean a shark or a crocodile-like sea creature. The myth is also linked with Hakuto Shrine in Tottori Prefecture.