A reconstruction based on the designs in Toriyama Sekien’s Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro. The monk’s robes are a dull brown, layered thickly, with the collar hanging before the face to cast a beaklike shadow. Beads are held in one hand, a censer is set before it. Movements are unhurried; with each step the rustle of cloth sounds and a faint scent of incense drifts. Hints linking it to tengu remain only in the captions of the image, with no direct wings or long nose. It maintains autonomy as a tsukumogami, its tears and seams perceived as bearing will. It appears not where reverence for sacred implements is lacking, but shows signs near neglected robes and ritual tools, prompting awe rather than harm.
Character Profile
This section is our own creative profile for storytelling. It is not historical fact or scholarship.
Yokai Type - Traditional Yokai
Category - Household Spirits
Rarity - Rare
Personality - taciturn, imposing
Compatibility - harmonious with those who honor ritual implements and sacred fire
Abilities - blur its form within incense smokedraw attention with the rustle of its robesring its prayer beads to pacify a space
Weaknesses - dislikes approaching strong open flame, does not defy the devout chants of a courteous monk
Habitat - storehouses of temple halls and pagodas, mountain training sites, robe cupboards of old temples
