Taking as precedent the disc-like apparition found in Muromachi-period Night Parade of One Hundred Demons scrolls, the Edo artist Toriyama Sekien shaped it in Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro as a human figure bearing a bronze plate. Sekien frequently depicted utensils turned yokai, and Nyūchibō is one of these, yet the textual notes are brief and its conduct remains undefined. Amid overlapping names and forms—nao-bachi, dōbachi, and surigane used in temple rites and theater orchestration—later commentators supplied the trait of startling people by sounding. No specific regional lore is attached; it is recognized iconographically within the broader class of utensil-spirits. Its qualities today largely reflect fragments of folk materials and modern reinterpretations in yokai handbooks.
Character Profile
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Yokai Type - Traditional Yokai
Category - Household Spirits
Rarity - Rare
Personality - taciturn, expressionless
Compatibility - appears where silence is broken
Abilities - startling those nearby with metallic clangor, appearing as part of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, resounding like a signal that shatters silence
Weaknesses - details unknown, said to be ineffective where no sound can be made
Habitat - around temple and shrine rites, behind theater stages, night thoroughfares
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