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While usually only a source of pranks, tsukumogami sometimes turn pent up sorrow into all-out rage and act on it.
Random Curiosity 2009
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While usually only a source of pranks, tsukumogami sometimes turn pent up sorrow into all-out rage and act on it.
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According to Shinto animism, some inanimate objects could gain a soul after 100 years of service ―a concept know as tsukumogami ― so it felt natural to acknowledge them, to express my gratitude for them.
What White, Western Audiences Don't Understand About Marie Kondo's 'Tidying Up' On assignment for HuffPost 2019
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It’s all the spirit of the antique chest of drawers under the painting, which was traumatized by witnessing the murder (an example of a tsukumogami or household-tool-spirit)!
The Ghost Did What?! Translation Exposing Providentialist Thinking Ada Palmer 2023
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