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The shape-shifter. From Yokai Attack!:
No discussion of the tanuki would be complete without a mention of their extraordinary testicles. Totally flexible, extensible, and mobile, they are a potent tool in the Tanuki's bag of shape-shifting tricks. Tanuki use their testicles as makeshift raincoats and drums, weapons and even as a disguise to impersonate other creatures and yokai (demons, spirits). Some accounts claim they can be extended into a sheet some eight tatami mats in size - more than 130 square feet (12 square meters). That's a whole lot of scrotum.
In fact, there is even a famous children's rhyme (set, incongruously enough to the tune of the Baptist hymn "Shall We Gather at the River?") that goes:
Tan Tan Tanuki
no kintama wa
Kaze mo nai no ni,
Bura Bura
(The Tanuki's testicles
swing-swing even
without any breeze).
Tanuki, despite being shape-shifters and mischievous, are considered good luck.
There, looking much happier in this pic, though still crazed.
Another teaser image! These are barrettes that will be coming out tomorrow! Little kitsune for your hair :D
Will be in the store tomorrow: missmonster.myshopify.com/
"I go sparrow, a large Naniwa - Oedo Yokai Kawaraban ": Hinowa Kouduki
Kawaraban shop, "sparrow" ghost city of Edo was attracted to the story of "Kaminari-ba" that appear in the large Naniwa and in autumn. That's a huge Kami-juu that wears the body a thundercloud. "Sparrow" The journey for coverage to large Naniwa. 5 book on the series.
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(Ink on paper, mounted on wood, 2008)
Here are my Yokai drawings mounted on wood stained with acrylics and coffee.
Baku are Japanese supernatural beings that devour dreams and nightmares. They have a long history in Japanese folklore and art, and more recently have appeared in Japanese anime and manga. The Japanese term "baku" has two current meanings, referring to both the traditional dream-devouring creature and to the zoological tapir (e.g., the Malaysian tapir). The traditional Japanese nightmare-devouring baku originates in Chinese folklore and was familiar in Japan as early as the Muromachi period (14th-15th century).
Here are my pieces for the Little Monsters show, Million Fishes Gallery, Oct. 31. 2010 in San Franciso. I used mini-munnys, super sculpey, magic sculpt, acrylic sheets, fabric, wood and painted with acrylics.
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A Futakuchi-onna.
If a woman stops eating in an attempt to look more beautiful she runs the risk of her body learning to feed itself without her consent.
Heavily processed ukiyo-e print (part of a print, anyway) of a Japanese yokai (monster or demon) nekomata (demon cat).
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#bjd #abjd #resindoll #doll #asiandoll #asianballjointeddoll #delf #eluts #dreamy el #sd boy #hybride #nobility body #shinma #yokai #shinigami #hisoka kuroi ##photography #
The shape-shifter. From Yokai Attack!:
No discussion of the tanuki would be complete without a mention of their extraordinary testicles. Totally flexible, extensible, and mobile, they are a potent tool in the Tanuki's bag of shape-shifting tricks. Tanuki use their testicles as makeshift raincoats and drums, weapons and even as a disguise to impersonate other creatures and yokai (demons, spirits). Some accounts claim they can be extended into a sheet some eight tatami mats in size - more than 130 square feet (12 square meters). That's a whole lot of scrotum.
In fact, there is even a famous children's rhyme (set, incongruously enough to the tune of the Baptist hymn "Shall We Gather at the River?") that goes:
Tan Tan Tanuki
no kintama wa
Kaze mo nai no ni,
Bura Bura
(The Tanuki's testicles
swing-swing even
without any breeze).
Tanuki, despite being shape-shifters and mischievous, are considered good luck.
I think his kintama, or the weight of the offerings left on them (though only the very lightweight 1￥) might be weighing him down in this picture, though he looks happy from other angles ;) Maybe he thinks they're worth at least ￥100!