Tsukumogami

In Japanese folklore, tsukumogami (付喪神 or つくも神, lit. "tool kami") are tools that have acquired a kami or spirit. According to an annotated version of The Tales of Ise titled Ise Monogatari Shō, there is a theory originally from the Onmyōki (陰陽記) that foxes and tanuki, among other beings, that have lived for at least a hundred years and changed forms are considered tsukumogami. In modern times, the term can also be written 九十九神 (literally ninety-nine kami), to emphasize the agedness.

thumb|upright|A figure of a kasa-obake from the 1968 film Yokai Monsters: One Hundred Monsters thumb|upright|A two-legged kasa-obake from the "Hyakki Yagyo Zumaki" by Enshin Kanō. are a mythical ghost or yōkai in Japanese folklore. They are sometimes, but not always, considered a tsukumogami that old umbrellas turn into. They are also called , , and .

thumb|right|150px|An abumi-guchi as depicted in Toriyama Sekien's [[Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro]] An is a strange furry yōkai, or Japanese monster, that is illustrated in Sekien Toriyama's Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro.

are (supernatural beings) in the folklore of Kōyama, Kimotsuki District, Kagoshima Prefecture (now Kimotsuki). They are also called or .

thumb|upright=0.7|Chōchin'obake or '''''' is a Japanese of (a type of lantern), "[the] lantern-spook () ... a stock character in the pantheon of ghouls and earned mention in the definitive demonology of 1784". They can also be called simply , , , and .

thumb|Depiction of a sandal-Yōkai in Hyakki Yagyō Emaki of the [[Muromachi period.]] A is a being from Japanese folklore belonging to the group of Yōkai.

thumb|Boroboroton as depicted in Toriyama Sekien's Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro (). thumb|upright=2|Child's , late 1800s. (patchwork) held together with over-all quilting stitching; see . The Boroboroton ( [bo̞ɺo̞bo̞ɺo̞to̞ɴ]; meaning "boroboro (tattered) futon") is a tsukumogami yōkai, and is believed to be evil and dangerous to humans.

thumb|A Biwa-bokuboku as illustrated in Toriyama Sekien's Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro (). The Biwa-bokuboku (; meaning "Biwa goblin") is a fictitious being from Japanese folklore. It belongs to a group of yokai and is said to have an ambivalent character.

right|thumb|200px|Ungaikyō, the mirror monster. The is a yōkai in Japanese folklore or fiction, a type of mirror monster.

thumb|right|300px|Menreiki as depicted in the Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro. is a type of monster in Japanese folklore, composed of Gigaku masks. It is listed within the 1781 compendium of Japanese supernatural entities, entitled Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro.

thumb|230px|A Koto-furunushi, as appearing in Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro (). The koto-furunushi (; English: "old master koto") is a fictitious being from Japanese folklore. It is a Yōkai and is said to be harmless to humans. The koto-furunushi is very similar to the yokai biwa-bokuboku.