Kasa-Obake belong to Japanese folklore and to the Yokai, specifically to the Tsukumogami, the artifact spirits. It is also often called Karakasa-Obake, which means paper umbrella spirit, or Karakasa-Kozō, umbrella boy.
The Kasa-Obake has the shape of a large, traditional paper umbrella. It hides a large eye and a long tongue under its umbrella. Its handle ends in a leg with a human foot. Sometimes he also wears shoes. Traditionally he wears either geta or zori. In rare cases, the Kasa-Obake even has 2 legs and 2 arms.
On its 100th birthday, the Kasa-Obake develops a life of its own. If it has been treated badly in the last hundred years and felt useless, it haunts unsuspecting house owners and walkers. He gets up to all sorts of humorless nonsense. His trick is to get people to put him up in a downpour. Hoping to protect himself from the rain, the Kasa-Obake grabs his victim by the wrist and carries them off.
