Minowaraji

This yokai is depicted walking through a snow-covered bamboo grove with a mino (straw sandals) as its body and straw sandals as its legs, and carrying a hoe. It is sometimes explained that the spirit of resentment felt by farmers who had to pay heavy tribute during a period of bad harvests transferred to the old straw mats and sandals, transforming them into mourning gods. Mino (straw mats) are believed to have magical powers, as many of the visiting deities wear them, and sandals are often used to avoid monsters, and it is said that such objects were thought to be easily transformed into monsters by their magical powers.

蓑草鞋（みのわらじ）

雪のつもっている竹林の中を蓑（みの）が胴体、草鞋（わらじ）が両脚となり、鍬（くわ）をかついだ姿で描かれている妖怪。凶作が続いた時期に年貢を厳しく取り立てられた農民の怨みの念が、古い蓑や草鞋に乗り移って付喪神と化したものと解説されることもある。蓑は来訪神の多くが身に纏っているように呪力があるものとされ、また草鞋も妖怪を避けるためによく呪物として使用されており、そのような器物は呪力によって妖怪化しやすいと考えられていたともされる。