The sense of values that believes divine spirits exist in tools, domestic animals, animals, plants and nature, in which personality is not generally recognized, is considered to have derived from the fact that they were personified in caricatures and comics.
道具や、一般に人格を認められることのない家畜・動植物・自然などに、神霊が宿り意志を持つといった価値観は、戯画や漫画などの擬人化の一環とし考えられる。