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Raised-Collar Robe

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Raised-Collar Robe

Raised-Collar Robe

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Basic Description

The Raised-Collar Robe is said to be a monk’s high-collared garment that, after many years, turned into a yokai. It appears in Toriyama Sekien’s Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro, shown with a censer set before it and prayer beads in hand, its stiff standing collar drooping over the face like a beak. Sekien notes it “may be the raised-collar robe of Sōjōbō of Mount Kurama,” hinting that a tengu-related monk’s robe gained a spirit. Concrete episodes or folktales, however, are scarcely recorded.

Folklore & Legends

Classified as a tsukumogami type in early modern picture scrolls and art books, it aligns with cases where worn ritual robes become uncanny. Sekien hints at a link to Sōjōbō, the great tengu of Mount Kurama, but cites no firm tradition. The idea meshes with beliefs that shugendō and yamabushi garb can accrue spiritual power, and that tools turn into yokai after a hundred years. Its presence owes more to printed and painted sources than to region-specific oral tales.

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Detailed Analysis

Character Profile

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Rarity
Rare

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