Chōchin-obake
They appear in the "kusazōshi", "omocha-e", and "karuta" card games like "obake karuta" starting from the Edo period to the early 20th century (and still in use today), as well as in Meiji and Taishō toys, children's books, and haunted house attractions. Description. An old "chōchin" would split upwards and downwards, and the part that got split would become a mouth and stick out a long tongue, and the "chōchin obake" is commonly considered not to have one eye in its upper half, but two. Sometimes, the "chōchin" would also grow a face, hands, a torso , and wings. In pictures from the Edo Period, both bucket-shaped and cylindrical "chōchin" were depicted. In the "Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro" by "Sekien Toriyama", a lantern-shaped "yōkai" under the name of "bura-bura" was depicted. They are also known from "ukiyo-e" such as Katsushika Hokusai's "Oiwa-san" from the "One Hundred Ghost Stories", and Utagawa Kuniyoshi's "Kamiya Iemon Oiwa no Bōkon" from the Edo Period and beyond. These were inspired by the "kabuki", the "Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan" (1825), in which the spirit of Oiwa, who was killed by Kamiya Iemon, was performed displaying itself from  a "chōchin" (which was called "chōchin-nuke"), and as well as another performance in which a "chōchin" had a human face, the "Kasane ga Fuchi Satemo Sono Nochi" () (in 1825, at the Nakamura-za among other places), so these were called "chōchin-oiwa". Among "emakimono" that depict many "yōkai" of tools, there is the "Hyakki Yagyō Emaki", but there have been no "chōchin" found in older works before the Edo Period. Examples of works after the Edo Period include the "Hyakki Yagyō no Zu" () by Kanō Jōshin. The Chōchin-obake in particular was created from a chōchin lantern composed of  bamboo and paper or silk"". They are portrayed with ""one eye, and a long tongue protruding from an open mouth"". Oral legends. Although they are a famous yōkai, it is said that there are almost no legends in any area that are about this, so in yōkai-related literature they are classified as a "yōkai that exist only in pictures." It is also commonly believed that they were created as a story for entertaining children. The yōkai comic artist Mizuki Shigeru published a story about how a chōchin-obake would surprise people and suck out their souls, but it did  not cite any primary sources. Also, Yōkai considered to be chōchin in the legends are often described as atmospheric ghost lights like chōchinbi rather than as the tool itself. In an old story from the Yamagata Prefecture: at a shrine with an aged chōchin, a chōchin-obake would appear and frighten humans. The obake would no longer appear after the chōchin was put away.