The Ita-Oni (板鬼 Itaoni, lit. Board Demon) is a Tsukumogami.
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History[]
Saishinban GeGeGe no Kitarō[]
Ita-Oni was one of the Yōkai Seven Mysteries and was causing the Okuri-Hyōshigi, a mysterious clapping sound. It attacked Kitarō, but was broken apart by Kitarō's Finger Guns.
1985 Anime[]
Kitarō vs. Ita-Oni.
It served Momon-Jii and did heinous acts such as a number of Tsujigiri, or crossroad killings. They spread rumors about Otama, a 120-year old house cat who was protecting the house from evil Yōkai and spirits, being the murderer behind these Tsujigiri attacks. Planning to get rid of Otama to gain the house. They captured Nezumi-Otoko who was a detective back then, and killed Otama when the cat protected the house's family from Momon-Jii's hair needles. However, Otama's spirit then turned into an onibi, a fiery hitodama and ignited Ita-Oni, causing the board yokai to panic and collide into Momon-Jii, making both of them gall into a well, drowning to their deaths.
Powers and Abilities[]
Levitation: Ita-Oni is capable of flying in the air by floating.
Legend[]
The story of the Ita-Oni was first recorded in the Konjaku Monogatarishū, with Shigeru Mizuki coming up with its name.
Two young samurai were on duty on a summer night when they spotted a board around seven to eight feet sticking out of the top of a building as it flew towards their direction.
The men drew their swords in preparation for slaying the board, but it flew past them and went into the lattice behind them where five samurai were sleeping. The two men heard painful groans and when they went to check, they saw that all the samurai had been crushed to death and that the board had disappeared, with no signs that it escaped outside.
When people heard of this incident, they warned each other that because the board left the two samurai alone but killed the sleeping samurai, this incident served as a cautionary tale for samurai to always be on guard and carry a sword with them at all times.