Dear from Iwate

It's been a long time. It's Ema.
I received a comment on my previous article about Tsukumogami and so I set it as homework, so I went back home during Golden Week and checked it out.
The description of the Swordsmen as gods was in the glossary of the illustrated catalog... I overlooked that part... I see, at least in the setting they are gods.
I looked up Daigenkai the day after your comment, and checked the spelling of "Kamisama" in the 98th edition and the new edition of Daigenkai at the nearest library. There doesn't seem to be any limit on the number of characters or the typesetting, so I couldn't guess why they used the unprecedented spelling "Kamisama." (I think it's possible that it was a common understanding among some people before that, but it just doesn't exist anymore.)
Thank you for the comments and information!

Even after looking at the Yin-Yang Zakki, I couldn't find out, but to begin with, it's not clear whether the ``Tsukumogami'' is something that came to life after a hundred years, or whether it was wiped clean of soot after 99 years and turned into a ghost out of resentment.
It could also be that it took 100 years for the spirit to reside there after the soot was removed, and since 100 years is a long time, the number 100 is meaningless, so it's only natural that we can't be sure...
It is true that it takes a hundred years to come to life, but I don't know if it's a tsukumogami or a god of the utensil. In any country, not just in Japan, ancient gods are quick to mess with anything they like, so it doesn't seem strange to think that a mischievous tsukumogami is a god.

Speaking of mischievous spirits, there is one familiar to those of us born in the Showa era: the statue of Kinjiro Ninomiya, which is now all but gone.
At night, he would run around the playground, the amount of firewood he was carrying would change, or the page of the book he was reading would change.
Many of the ghost stories at school are about objects that are haunted. The statue of Kinjiro Ninomiya, the moving human body and skeleton models, Beethoven and the Mona Lisa looking our way. Is the piano that plays by itself also on our side?
It may seem a little young to call the strange creatures in ghost stories monsters, but even though it may be strange that something lives in something and moves it, they will never go extinct. I think that monsters as folklore and strange creatures are still alive in the present day.

Look around you right now and think about the thing you have been using for the longest time. And how long have you been using it for? Why not try using it for a while until it transforms?

Well, this is my last post. I wanted to talk about the monsters of Iwate, as well as the monsters of my hometown, western Shizuoka (big baboons, tengu, pipe foxes, daidarabotchi, etc.), but I'll save that for another time.
The abnormal weather that began around May has given birth to Reiwa-chan, and typhoons are personified every year, so I think that even in the Reiwa era, the essence of the Japanese people remains the same. So, I'm sure the yokai are still around. I'd like to conclude by wishing everyone happiness in their lives and all the yokai in the world. Thank you very much.