Chōchin'obake

In the Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro by Sekien Toriyama, a lantern-shaped yōkai under the name of bura-bura [ja] was depicted.

[6] 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),[7] and as well as another performance in which a chōchin had a human face, the Kasane ga Fuchi Satemo Sono Nochi (累渕扨其後) (in 1825, at the Nakamura-za among other places[8]), so these were called chōchin'oiwa.

[9] Among emakimono that depict many yōkai of tools, there is the Hyakki Yagyō Emaki [ja], but there have been no chōchin found in older works before the Edo Period.

[12] 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.