Kusuriuri / Medicine Seller
The wandering exorcist from Ayakashi and Mononoke
The character
- From
- Mononoke
Kusuriuri, the wandering medicine seller and exorcist from the anime Mononoke, with figures, a Nendoroid and merchandise.
More about Kusuriuri / Medicine Seller
Kusuriuri (薬売り, literally "medicine seller") is a wandering merchant with pointed ears and a chest full of remedies, who banishes spirits in feudal Japan. His name is a job title; where he comes from remains unknown.
He first appeared in the Bakeneko episode of the anthology Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales (2006). The character proved so popular that Toei Animation turned him into the twelve-episode series Mononoke in 2007, directed by Kenji Nakamura and voiced by Takahiro Sakurai. The film Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain followed later.
For Kusuriuri there are scale figures, a Nendoroid and merchandise.
