Kinutanuki are a strange but largely harmless yokai from Japanese folklore and mythology that seems to be the result of silk that has gone on to gain a life of its own and thus transformed into a tsukumogami, they often take on the form of long strands of silk with the hands, feet, tails and heads of tanuki.
They are fond of playful puns, like many tsukumogami, most famous is their tendency to beat their bellies like drums; which is a reference to how silk was traditionally beaten by a river with a large wooden board to soften it.