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5" x 7" original ink drawing of a Oni, a mythological being from Japanese lore.
Ink, gouache on thick paper board.
Arguably the second most-famous Yokai are the Tengu. very simply, Tengu are dogs or birds or people or demons or ghosts or gods who are good or bad or tricky or wise of violent or peaceful. Welcome to Japan.
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Edited National Diet Library of Japan ukiyo-e print of a rather rude man blowing smoke into the three eyes of the monster trying to scare him.
From a series of prints (all dealing with yokai one way or another) called: 和漢百物語, or Wakan Hyaku Monogatari.
Original caption: 小野川喜三郎
Translated (via Google Translate) caption: Onogawa Kisaburo
Image source: dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1311784
These are both sides of a rotating clear shelf, full of Yokai figures!
I've actually gotten more since this photo, so now they're smashed in more and I have to contemplate a new shelf. )~(
The left side are the movie Yokai Yujin figures, which are a mish-mash and newly created type of Yokai, as well as a few Kaiyodo.
The right side are the more traditional Yokai by Kaiyodo, and some GeGeGe No Kitaro figures (on the bottom, some of my favorites!).
In Japanese mythology, there is a yōkai (spirit or demon) named Amabie (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amabie). This yōkai helps with harvests and if you show its (hers?) picture to those afflicted with disease, the sick person should get better. Amabie has become very popular since the pandemic started and you can see variations of this image in many places (as well as more modern interpretations).
This image is from the Kyoto University Digital Archive of Rare Materials and the source can be found at rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/item/rb00000122.
Cropped variant with more color processing.
See also: www.spoon-tamago.com/2020/03/13/amabie-japanese-epidemic-...
Title: The Dishes Are Done
Artist: Johnny Winslow
Size: 9"x12"
Medium: Watercolor, Sumi ink on Paper
A warrior composed of discarded earthenware emerges explosively from the oven of a suprised samurai.
Part of the Yokai in Your Eye exhibition at Bear and Bird Gallery in Lauderhill, Florida. For more info, please visit www.bearandbird.com
Another extremely famous type of Yokai, the Kitsune are trickster fox spirits. You know, foxes tend to fill that role in folklore. It’s an iteresting thing. Some Kitsune are guardians or faithful lovers, but most of them are impish or even cruel. As a Kitsune grows in age and power, it gains more tails – to a maximum of nine. After receiving its ninth tail, its fur also turns gold, so the one in this picture is really quite old and powerful. Those ones are usually ore on the wise or benevolent level than others – but even they might decide to assume a human form and marry somebody. You know, “Foxy Lady” and all that.
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Edited illustration from the Japanese legend of うつろ 舟 (Utsuro-bune or "hollow ship"). The legend is about a beautiful woman who is spotted in a round, hollow ship by fishermen in the early 1800s of Japan's east coast. They bring her to shore and she carries a box that she won't let anyone touch. The ship is made of unknown material. There are variants of the legend but most of them say once the fishermen couldn't figure out what she was saying (they didn't understand her language), the put her back into her ship and towed her back into the ocean. (Another variant said that the box that she carried contained the head of a former lover.)
(Those who believe in UFOs think this is an instance of an alien visitation. (Which would make more sense if the F in UFO meant "floating.") Given the imagination and fantastical nature of Japanese folk tales, some people are reading too much into this - this is just another weird Japanese Yōkai story. Actually, to me the round vessel looks like an old-style Japanese cooking pot.)
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TSUCHINOKO
I present to you THE LAZIEST CRYPTID EVER.
Also technically a yokai, the Tsuchinoko is a famous Japanese cryptid, on par with Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster in the west, and there are lots of rewards if one is truly sighted. It resembles a fat snake that is wider around its middle than at each end. Why is this so lazy?
Because... well... it seems to be a snake that just ate something. SPOOKY. MYSTERIOUS.
It's kind of like discovering a mysterious type of chicken - "Hey guys, it looks like a chicken, but THIS one lays weird white thingies! Crazy, huh?
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Headband: Yokai - Band with Roses (0L)
Lipline: AsteroidBox - Golden Lip Line (free Group-Gift, free to join)
Skirt & Blouse: NYU - NYU - Seifuku, Pink (0L @Gacha Guardians, Group free to join)
Pose: A&R Haven - rBentoPose-1124E(rez){Box} (0L)
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5" x 7" original ink drawing of a Tengu, a mythological being from Japanese lore.
Ink, gouache on thick paper board.
Just in time for Halloween, we’re letting the yokai out to wander the streets and haunt the cafes of Azabujuban. I’m thrilled to announce my first solo show, Night of the Yokai – Patrick Gannonの摩訶不思議な切絵展.
Details:
Dates: Oct. 25 (Mon) to Nov 7 (Sun) 2010 (* closed to the general public Sunday Oct. 31 for a workshop)
Time: 11:30am to 11pm
Place: Gallery Cafe Enyen located about 5 minutes from Azabujuban station exit 4 on the Namboku line, and a five minute walk from Roppongi Hills
Address: 2-8-15 Azabujuban, Minato-ku, Tokyo 1F
Phone: 03-3453-4021
(close-up) This is the super neat 6.5 inch X-Plus Yokai Daimon pvc figure made in 1996. It seems to be fairly hard to find images of, so I thought I'd add mine. It's a static non-poseable figure, but such great details and coloring.
This horrible-looking Yokai loves to lurk around temple entranceways, and devour the impious. You'd better be right with God if you're going to his church!
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Gouache on 23" long wood board with gold background. Original art, not a print.
This is a Baku, a Japanese monster who eats bad dreams. They are a strange mixture of different creatures. This one fiercely pursues an unseen nightmare..
Legendary crow demons of the forest, some Tengu are wise, others are cruel. You never know until you meet him!
These two guys are completely unrelated! Inugami is a dog spirit, and far more dangerous than most other Yokai. They are extremely vicious and dangerous, often murdering or convincing others to commit suicide. This is only fitting, as they come from the brutal sacrifice of an innocent canine.
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WHAT UP IM OUT HERE SURFING AT FUCKERY HOUR IN THIS NEW EPIC FIT I THREW TOGETHER. IM ALL ZOOMED UP OFF A MONSTER ENERGY AND IM LITTY LIKE A WHOLE TIDDY AND A HALF OUT HERE IN THESE KHAKI SHORTS. THE HAWAIIAN SHIRT SLAPS DIFFERENT. THIS AIN’T NO BAKED ON MESH, NAH. THIS HERE IS SYSTEM. #OG
To explain this yokai, let me tell you how Tesso, the Iron Rat Demon, began as a humble monk by the name of Raigo. Once upon a time (in the Heian era), Emperor Shirakawa desperately needed a son, and so he asked Raigo the monk to pray for him - if the emperor had a son, then he would grant any one thing Raigo asked for, no matter what. So, Raigo fervently prayed and meditated day and night, and the day came when the emperor's son was born, and he was overjoyed! So he approached Raigo and told him to name his wish, and it would be granted. Raigo wished for a monastery - his own monastery so he could train new monks and spread holiness.
However, there were three things in the world that the emperor could not control: The winds, the roll of the dice, and those evil, rebellions Enriyaku-ji monks in the mountains! The Enriyaku-ji monks are another story entirely - their history includes everything from burning down rival monasteries to working for the yakuza - but anyway! The Enriyaku-ji hated Raigo, and did not want him to build his monastery. So they plotted, schemed, bribed, lied, and did everything in their power to stop him, and succeeded so well that not even the Emperor could build that monastery!
Raigo was understandably angry, but he was powerless, and even though the emperor tried to help him as much as he could, Raigo was so enraged that he went on a hunger strike until his monastery could be built! The Enriyaku-ji were quite pleased with this, of course, and continued to block it until poor old Raigo starved to death. But because he had been so angry and vengeful when he died, and because he had been wronged so badly, he was immediately reborn as Tesso, a rat-shaped demon the size of a man, with iron fangs and claws. Tesso gathered his army of rats and invaded the Enriyaku-ji temple, wrecking the place, killing monks, and destroying all their books, scrolls, artifacts, and relics, thoroughly punishing those wicked monks for what they did. And you know, they say that Tesso still haunts the area to this day, taking out his centuries-old rage on travellers and holy men.
I guess the moral of this story is that church building fundraisers have never changed.
Found this little figure (a yokai, or spirit) from Japan. It reminds me of a politician. Not any particular politician, but politicians in general.
Juro isn't human, he is a forest Ghost, a Yokai. he prefers the quit and calmness of the woods. he also is very dangerous for humans...... so ,don't come to close to him.
Outfit is all made by me, except for the hat and shoes.
Nichibunken ukiyo-e print of many bakemono/yokai. It appears as if one monster is dreaming of another, which is dreaming of the first, sort of like a Klein bottle of dreams...
Touryuumons yearly Halloween build is open thru till october 31st (current hunts here are the Renaissance Faire - coming in october quest fur cover, fallen gods hunt and best in halloween)
FAQ: why is the halloween area on its own parcel this year? cause i wanted a larger area to work with - the christmas area well be at the main store at peacock park
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