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...

Tsukumogami Kashimasu (Japanese: つくもがみ貸します, "Tsukumogami For Rent") is a Japanese novel written by Megumi Hatakenaka and published in 2007. A sequel, titled...

the kuchisake-onna. Some yōkai resemble inanimate objects (such as the tsukumogami), while others have no discernible shape. Yōkai are typically described...

暮露暮露団 [bo̞ɺo̞bo̞ɺo̞to̞ɴ]; meaning "boroboro (tattered) futon") is a tsukumogami yōkai, and is believed to be evil and dangerous to humans. The Boroboroton...

transforms into a girl wearing a kimono named Kiriha. She happens to be a tsukumogami called a "tsugumomo," objects that have gained a soul through long years...

Japanese folklore. They are sometimes, but not always, considered a tsukumogami that old umbrellas turn into. They are also called "karakasa-obake" (から傘おばけ)...

animistic traditions. Obake derived from household objects are often called tsukumogami. A bakemono usually either disguises itself as a human or appears in...

in Tokyo. A pessimistic young man whose siblings were murdered by a tsukumogami, his attitude out in the field has resulted his grandfather sending him...

illustrated in Sekien Toriyama's Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro. It is a type of tsukumogami formed from a stirrup, usually one that once belonged to a dead soldier...

Japanese equivalent of the Chinese White Tiger of the West. Byōbunozoki A tsukumogami that emerges from byōbu to spy on people. Chimimōryō A general term for...