*Japanese tree spirit accidentally crafted into a pillar which manifested if installed upside down.
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Translation: upside-down pillar
Habitat: houses
Diet: resentment at being upside-down
Appearance: Sakabashira are the angry spirits of tree leaves which manifest inside houses where one of the pillars has been placed upside-down — that is to say, in the opposite direction of the way the tree was pointing when it was living. These spirits manifest their grudge late at night, and bring misfortune upon those living in the house.
Some Japanese famous folktales. https://www.tsunagujapan.com/10-classic-japanese-stories/#:~:text=%2010%20Classic%20Japanese%20Stories%20%201%20Momotaro.,Cutter%2C%20is%20another%20popular%20tale.%20Although...%20More%20 When I was a young teen, I studied Japanese language, reading and writing. When my wife and visited Japan in 1982, what little I learned to read helped tremendously on our visit to Japan. Unfortunately, I never improved in the spoken language, because we always talked to our mother in broken Japanese interspersed with English. When I visited relatives in Hiroshima, I couldn't communicate with them. I should have hired an interpreter, but now, it's too late. I missed the history of our family during WWII, when our country bombed Hiroshima with the atomic bomb. I worked with those same bombs in the US Air Force from 1955 to 1959. I never saw another Asian work in my specialty.