A yokai may also be a traditional everyday tool typified by items such as ink stone, kama (large cooking pot) or tsurube (bucket used for scooping water from a well) or a tool that is reminiscent of life styles of the olden days, such as 'aｚuki arai' (yokai which makes the sound of washing azuki beans near a person sleeping in a mountain) and 'dorotabo' (yokai appearing at a rice field, which has only one eye and three fingers in his hand), which are all tools that are no longer seen even in the farming environment of the suburbs and the countryside.
また、郊外や地方のその地域おいて、１次産業に携わるような社会環境であっても、もう見ることのできないような、いわゆる民具などに代表される硯（すずり）や釜（かま）や釣瓶（つるべ）であったり、昔懐かしい生活としての「小豆洗い」や「泥田坊（田作りの土起し）」であったりもする。