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Edited National Diet Library of Japan ukiyo-e print of a man sternly looking at an oni with what looks like a human infant.
From a series of prints (all dealing with yokai one way or another) called: ĺ柢çžçŠčŞ, or Wakan Hyaku Monogatari.
Original caption: 丝錏äťĺé¨ĺŁćŚ
Translated (via Google Translate) caption: Omo-bakai Urabenosuetake
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Ukiyo-e print by Utagawa of, what the original caption says, an elephant catching a tengu in flight. (Tengus are Japanese demons with really long noses.) It looks more like the tengu caught the elephant and is now probably wondering what to do.
Lady with a really long neck wallpaper. (This is a pretty standard issue monster (mythological, that is) in Japan...)
Danger - watch out! If you go in the water, the kappa will get you!
Among the most famous and popular of yĹkai, the kappa is a creature that ranges over the whole of Japan, subject to a wide range of interpretations and kin to a whole tribe of strange aquatic goblins of similar design. But this little water monster is still consistantly known for some unique and often rather silly characteristics.
The first of these is the water-filled dish, or moist cap-like plate on top of its head. The water in the kappa's head provides it with its supernatural power, and if it dries up or spills the creature will lose its great strength or even become too weak to move. The kappa is very proud of its hydropowered brawn, and often challenges human beings to bouts of sumĹ wrestling. Clever people, however, will trick the kappa into bowing or doing a handstand before the match, and when the water has spilled from the kappa's head the the now-weakened water imp always loses, which makes the boastful creature very upset.
Another of the kappa's distinctive traits is its love of the humble cucumber. This affinity may have its origins in a custom of floating the year's first crop of cucumbers and eggplants (which kappa are also said to favor) into the local river in order to appease water gods and hungry ghosts. Swimming during auspicious days also puts you at risk of kappa attack, perhaps because the kappa will mistake you for these offerings3. In the TĹkyĹ area, at least, it was once said that if you write the name of your family on the first cucumber harvest and toss it into the river, it will stave off kappa attacks. But cucumbers, or rather the smell of them, are more universally seen as inviting the predations of kappa, and almost everywhere in Japan people warn against eating these vegetables before swimming. The ends of the cucumbers seem to be particularly attractive.
But while the kappa may love cucumbers, it does not merely pose a danger to people it mistakes for vegetables. The kappa also shows interest in the backsides of humans and other large animals, often seeking to pull the nourishing guts out through its victim's backside and devour them. Its favorite part of this is the human shirikodama, a fabled ball found near the anus and an item rivaling the cucumber on the kappa's list of favorite foods. The extraction of this element by kappa is said to cause the loosening of the anus in drowning victims. Stories of kappa pulling horses and children into rivers are very common. Read more.
Beware! The kappa is a really popular yokai, or spirit/imp/demon. Usually these signs just say take care, danger, there is water, a river here! Do not swim! However, this one has the added danger of the Kappa.
Sogenbi is a type of Japanese Yokai spirit, and is actually a ghost - it's the tormented spirit of a wicked monk who used too much oil, and is now condemned to spend eternity as a flying, flaming head.
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Somehow, I hav a hunch that this wasn't exactly born from a sighting, as much as this kind of situation:
"Stop it, Sogen! Leave a little for the rest of us! Now we can't cook anything!"
"Sorry, but I gotta eat!"
"Sogen, do you know what happens to wicked monks who hog all the cooking oil? Huh?"
A hossu is a type of fly swatter, owned and wielded by Buddhist priests â it is a small rod tipped with a bundle of horse hair, which can non-lethally shoo off flies. As you can see, this dancing guyâs head is a hossu. He looks lively, doesnât he?
Now, that little wormy thing below him? Itâs a chestburster. From Alien. Sort of. See, thereâs this really famous epic horror novel, Teito Monogatari â you may be familar with an anime adaptation titled Doomed Megalopolis. One of the demons wielded by the main villain is a hideous worm that can possess its host. But⌠BUT⌠that worm is a chestburster, and patterned a lot after the monster in Alien. And it is thus an official Yokai. Try to take a Japanese mindset again. Why should there be a statute of limitations on ghosts? Why couldnât a spirit take the form of something modern? Whatâs so crazy about that? And now it makes sense.
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At the Mizugi Shigeru yokai (Japanese monsters) exhibit at the Osaka Culturarium in Tempozan Harbor.
Nurarihyon is the most powerful Yokai of all â heâs the big boss monster. The boss of bosses! All manner of demons and fiends bow at his command! So, what nefarious deeds does he perpetrate?
Nurarihyon will sneak into your house while youâre away, eat your food and drink your tea, and then sneak away before you return home. Well, thatâs⌠something.
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Finally my Soom/hybrid doll is done! Galena/Dia body, blank head; wings by The Mushroom Peddler, mask by MaskEra, everything else scratchbuilt by me.
From the Mizugi Shigeru yokai (Japanese monsters) exhibit at the Osaka Culturarium in Tempozan Harbor.
Le baku (en japonais : ç ou č˛) est un yokai, une crĂŠature du folklore japonais. Sa caractĂŠristique est de dĂŠvorer les rĂŞves et les cauchemars des personnes endormies, d'oĂš son autre nom : yumekui (en japonais : 夢ĺ°ă, littĂŠralement ÂŤ mangeur de rĂŞve Âť).
Le baku est donc une crĂŠature ĂŠminemment bĂŠnĂŠfique. Il est dit qu'on peut l'invoquer au milieu d'un mauvais rĂŞves ; le baku apparaĂŽt, qui mange alors la vision d'ĂŠpouvante mais annihile ĂŠgalement le mauvais prĂŠsage du cauchemar.
Le baku est vraisemblablement issu des croyances chinoises (à l'instar de nombreux yokai), oÚ il s'appelait mò et jouait dÊjà le rôle d'un esprit  protecteur du sommeil . Il a ÊtÊ importÊ au Japon au cours de l'ère Muromachi (1336 - 1573 ap. J.C.). La crÊature ne possÊdait alors pas d'apparence bien fixÊe.
A partir du XVIIème siècle, diverses illustrations dÊcrivent le baku comme une chimère composÊe d'un corps d'ours (ou de tanuki - chien viverrin), d'une trompe d'ÊlÊphant, de pattes de tigres... Il peut avoir Êgalement des dÊfenses d'ÊlÊphants, des yeux de rhinocÊros, une queue de boeuf et son pelage peut être tachetÊ.
Son aspect composite a conduit parfois à confondre le baku avec la nue, une autre chimère du folklore japonais, mais à l'inverse du baku celle-ci est malÊfique et porteuse de mauvais prÊsages.
La capacitĂŠ Ă manger les rĂŞves ne fait pas systĂŠmatiquement partie des attributs du baku et certains textes en font plutĂ´t un symbole protecteur contre les maux et les sortilèges. Le Sankai Ibutsu (幹澡ç°çŠ, XVIIème siècle ap. J.C.) affirme ainsi que possĂŠder la peau d'un baku chez soi repousse les maladies.
urant l'ère Edo (1600 - 1868 ap. J.C.), le baku devient un motif très courant de peintures et dans la sculpture. On trouve ses reprÊsentations dans les humbles maisons, mais Êgalement sur les autels, dans les temples... On fait Êgalement des talismans et des figurines à son effigie, qu'on pose à proximitÊ du lit pour chasser les cauchemars.
En japonais, le mot baku peut Êgalement servir à dÊsigner le tapir, très vraisemblablement en raison de l'apparence similaire entre cet animal et la crÊature imaginaire (qui possèdent toutes les deux une trompe). Le même phÊnomène existe dans la langue chinoise pour le terme mò .
Le baku est redevenu une crÊature très populaire dans la culture japonaise depuis les annÊes 80, de très nombreux films et mangas le mettent en scène ; les reprÊsentations modernes dÊlaissent cependant son apparence chimÊrique traditionnelle et le dÊpeignent le plus souvent sous l'aspect d'une sorte de tapir.
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Kage onna are shadows of women which appear projected onto windows and doors when there is no one around to cast them. Not as fantastical as many Yokai, but perfect for the medium. đ¤
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Kawauso means âRiver Otter.â And remember everything I said about Kitsune? It all applies here. Kawauso are what happens when a river otter lives to an advanced age â it gains shapeshifting powers. Some of them are tricksters, some benevolent, and some vicious. Sound familiar? Well, Yokai exist in categories â different kinds of Oni, or Tsukumogami, or other such creatures. And many animals follow the Kitsune pattern.
Kawauso have a few things unique to them, such as their love of fish and sake, or their penchant to mimic sounds and voices to freak people out. And rather than disguising themselves as somebodyâs bride (though they do that sometimes), they usually turn into small beggar children, and try to buy booze. If someone asks who they are, Kawauso panic and blow their whole cover. You know, like normal kids trying to buy booze. Another favorite activity of theirs is to snuff out lights and lanterns and leave travelers in the dark. Itâs all fun and games until somebody gets mugged.
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This may be a kind of simple custom, but I swear it's my favorite. I found this vintage 15in, kind of plain, jointed porcelain vintage doll. So I jlued eyes, jems, painted a wee bit, and put some simple fur on, and voila! A yokai-ish nightmare that will stick in your brain forever.
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Koga is the young leader of the southern yĹkai-wolf tribe, which is nearly wiped out by Kagura and Naraku. He first meets InuYasha as an opponent in battle, but becomes a reluctant, occasional ally despite maintaining a strong sense of rivalry with the "useless puppy" about their relative combat strengths as well as Koga's persistent courtship of Kagome.After suffering serious wounds, Koga is partially restored by three Shikon shards embedded into his legs and right arm. The shards are eventually taken away from him by Naraku, gravely weakening him; he leaves and disappears from the manga, after telling Kagome that she may leave InuYasha and come to him at any time.
Processed (from not much to way overboard) image I took several years ago of a toy I bought in Japan of a lantern with a human face (and big mouth). Colorized from variations of a previous image.
Violent cursed souls, the Wanyudo are destined to wheel around for eternity, spreading chaos and death.
This may be a kind of simple custom, but I swear it's my favorite. I found this vintage 15in, kind of plain, jointed porcelain vintage doll. So I jlued eyes, jems, painted a wee bit, and put some simple fur on, and voila! A yokai-ish nightmare that will stick in your brain forever.
The Yeren is supposedly reddish-brown, kind of like an ape, and peaceful. Some theorize that itâs a new (hidden) species of Orangutan, or Gigantopithecus, or⌠because the forests where it is sighted also supposedly have ogres and werebears, maybe itâs just a legend after all. So, why bring it up here? Because, even though China and Japan are about as different as apples and goats, âYokaiâ honestly can mean any kind of monster (similar to how âAnimeâ just means cartoon â so yes, Looney Tunes is marketed as anime). Sometimes foreign things get absorbed into the main Japanese canon, or are at least referred to as foreign Yokai â like Backbeard, earlier. So, essentially, the Yeren is a Chinese Yokai. Donât think about it too hard. Youâll be fine.
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Milky cream Pocky Yokai Watch special edition.
Pocky Strawberry Heartful
Pocky Midi - Custard
Kit Kat mini (to bake) â Cheesecake
Drops - Grave of the Fireflies
Fuwarinka Rose flavored candy
Pocky au lait sucrĂŠ ĂŠdition spĂŠciale Yokai Watch.
Pocky Fraise Heartful
Pocky Midi â Crème Anglaise
Kit Kat mini (Ă cuire) - Cheesecake
Drops - Le Tombeau des Lucioles
Bonbons Ă la rose Fuwarinka