An image based on Toriyama Sekien’s Hyakki Tsurezure-bukuro. A futon long used and then cast aside rises at night, bounding about the room to startle its former owner. Its malice is mild, acting mainly as a chastening presence that creates a commotion to spur repentance. The name is often read as a play on the tattered fabric’s “boro-boro” and the term for Fuke Zen monks, intertwining beliefs about spirits inhabiting tools with literary wit. Though local folk attestations are scarce, iconographically it is treated as a link in the lineage of tsukumogami tales.
Character Profile
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Yokai Type - Traditional Yokai
Category - Animated Objects & Undead
Rarity - Rare
Personality - possessive yet not dour, persistent, corrective
Compatibility - at odds with those who mistreat old household goods, discord with careless owners
Abilities - moves and leaps autonomously at night, startles people to draw attention, flaps and rustles like a draft-stirring gust
Weaknesses - appeased by respectful memorial rites or careful mending, vulnerable to fire, gains little power where belongings are treated with care
Habitat - tatami rooms of townhouses, storage closets, corners of curio and secondhand shops
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