Fluttering through the night skies over Kagoshima prefecture, this innocuous-looking specter at first appears to be nothing more than a strip of white cloth about ten meters long, until it drops onto its unsuspecting human victim and wraps itself tightly aroujnd the head and neck, attempting to induce death by suffocation.

Although in appearance the ittan-momen seems like some sort of tsukumo-gami, a man who once fended off this cloth bogey's attack with his sword was left with blood on his hands when the apparition disappeared, perhaps indicating that this monster is a shapeshifting animal's transformation.¹

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1. Mizuki 2001 pp. 10-11.