KutsutsuraIconographic Critical Edition

A version organized from Toriyama Sekien’s anecdotes and imagery, presenting a beast-man figure bearing a symbolic clog (kutsu) to signify an animated implement. In Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro, paired with the opposing page’s Long Crown, it allegorizes the proverb “Do not put on shoes in a melon patch, nor adjust your crown beneath a plum tree,” depicting caution against suspicion through a yokai image. No concrete sightings or harms are recorded; it is loosely linked to tales of creatures that eat melons in fields, and banishment is mentioned only via talismanic precedents. No firm association with specific Japanese locales is attested, and its design likely references Muromachi-period yokai scrolls featuring beast forms bearing shallow clogs.