I would not consider myself to be, no. [And then, just because he's used to not even Japanese people here knowing what he is, he'll state in simple enough terms:]

I am what is considered to be an "object spirit"; the soul that forms within objects that are particularly long-lived, storied, or cared for.

[Or trashed and neglected! Wild how spirit rules work.]

Do you have such things where you come from...?