A yōkai that looks like a lump of flesh with no real face but has some wrinkles and folds of fat that may resemble one. The same goes for its limbs. It's considered a type of Noppera-bō, a faceless yōkai we already featured before. In 1609, a blob of flesh resembling a child was sighted in the courtyard of Sunpu Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川 家康 lived at that castle during that time, so it was well guarded. Hence, the only conclusion they could draw was it was a yōkai. They tried to capture the intr

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