This version adheres to Toriyama Sekien’s image and brief note, centering on a one-eyed, three-fingered figure rising upper-body first from a muddy paddy. It avoids expanding later folkloric claims and emphasizes allegory. It appears as a voice rebuking impiety and neglect of farming after fields are sold off, standing by the paddy ridge at night and repeating in a low voice, “Return the fields.” Given the scant early modern corroboration, this is a reconstruction mindful that Sekien may have intended wordplay and social satire, without asserting ties to specific places or people. Visual traits include a mud-smeared monk-like upper body, a single eye, a wide mouth, and three-fingered hands.
Character Profile
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Yokai Type - Traditional Yokai
Category - Mountain and wilderness yokai
Rarity - Rare
Personality - relentless, mournful
Compatibility - at odds with the idle, conflicts with those who neglect their labor
Abilities - appears along paddy ridges at night, emerges camouflaged in mud, induces remorse through a repeated cry
Weaknesses - disappears at sunrise, rarely manifests when farming is rightly conducted
Habitat - paddy ridges, muddy rice fields, around irrigation channels
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