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A small, ghost-like doll that is traditionally used by Japanese people to prevent rain. The name literally means "shiny shiny Buddist monk" and it was originally designed to somewhat look like one - it very vaguely resembles a bald man. Children traditionally hang these in a window frame when they wanted the next day to have good weather.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In a [[Dorama]] called ''With Love'', one of the main characters used the screen name of
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The [[Pokémon]] Castform is based off of a
** Gardevoir may have taken a little bit of inspiration from this one, too.
** Shuppet as well.
* ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] 7'': A minor enemy in Cloud Man's stage is designed after the
* One of these is an item in ''[[Monster Rancher]] DS.'' It doesn't seem to actually affect the weather, but it ''does'' reduce your monster's stress in springtime.
* ''[[Boktai]]'' has both a right-side up and upside-down Teru Bozu, the first always giving you at least two bars of sunlight while and the second limiting you to one. In the English version they're called the "Mr. Rainnot" and "[[Sdrawkcab Name|Tonniar .Rm]]", respectively.
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== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* One of the TIPS in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' show Rika hanging a
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