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is a creature illustrated in Toriyama Sekien's ''Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki'', as an infant spirit lapping oil out of an ''andon lamp''. Sekien's accompanying notes describe it: : : : Sekien seems to have based this illustration on a story from the , in which an oil merchant from Ōtsu steals oil from a Jizō statue at the crossroads, and is punished posthumously by being transformed into a wandering ghost-fire. ==References== * * * * http://www.obakemono.com/obake/aburaakago/ The Obakemono Project: Abura akago 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abura-akago」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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