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This figure is a netsuke (dangling thing) manufactured by Kaiyodo in Japan.
Greek mythology has the Chimera, a creature with the head and body of a lion, a second head of a goat, and a serpent tail (with its own head). Iraq (Persia) has the Manticore, a creature with the body of a lion, the face of a man, the wings of an eagle, and the tail of a scorpion. The Nue is often called “The Japanese Chimera,” though the only connection is its mix-and-match nature. Nue vary from creature to creature and account to account, but most often they have the body of a tiger, the face of a snow monkey, and a snake’s tail – with its own snake head, too. They make bird cries as they fly in the night, concealed within dark clouds of their own making. The Nue is also one of the oldest recorded Yokai, with descriptions and legends strethcing back well over eleven hundred years ago.
The Nue are truly terrible and dangerous. When they appear, they create nightmares, spread curses, and people die. One famous story from AD 1153 involves the emperor himself falling deeply ill under both physical and spiritual ailments, as well as nightmares. One night when a storm struck the imperial palace and set the roof on fire, the samurai Minamoto realized that it was a creature, and he fired an arrow directly into the center of the storm’s black cloud. This killed the Nue, who fell dead to the ground. To avoid its death curse, the inhabitants of Kyoto sent its body to the village of Ashiya, which gave it a proper burial. A nd you can actually visit the mound today, though I doubt anybody will let you dig and excavate the Nue’s body.
It's time to relax, chat, hang out, maybe spin a web or two.
Figures used: Ushii-Oni, Tsuchigumo, Tesso (Kaiyodo Yokai)
Drawlloween is a horror-themed art contest that runs during the month of October.
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Vampiric and corpse-possessing, the nasty Babylonian spirit Daimon (Chikara Hashimoto) arrives in Japan and causes nothing but trouble for the spooky but mostly benevolent yokai population in the 1968 Daiei monster mash "Yôkai daisensô".
Nano-technology can be scary stuff. Especially when your a tyrant of an oppressed nation somewhere! Developed by the best at a secret military base within Japan, these little buggers specialize in taking out the enemy when they are at their most vulnerable...the toilet.
Almost undetectable, this machine uses it quick robotic legs to scurry and climb into the toilet bowl and hide under the water or the seat. To ensure it isn't accidentally spotted, it's exoskeleton is camoflouged white-ish gray.
Though very simple in design, the TB-41 (Toilet Bomb: Type #41) is packed with a minimal amount of C4 to act as a large cherry bomb. When placed in the right spot, it turns the innocent white bowl into a chair of death. When detonated it combines dangerous chemicals with the unstable gases found in the sewage to create a devastating explosive reaction. In theory, the blast should also turn the porcelain into jagged pieces of shrapnel.
It can be activated by either remote detonation or chemi-analytical activation. The latter refers to the sensor the bot contains and process the chemicals and minerals found in the water, particularly iron, found in urine.
It's name derives from a Japanese Yokai (Monster) called the Kappa, a water goblin / water demon. It was a combination of a turtle, a frog, a duck and a man. It's notorious because it targetted people who went #2 by the river (which was common in ancient Japan). It would stick it's arm up the @$$ of the victim, grab them by the tongue and turn them inside out!!! While the poor soul flopped around, the Kappa would take the liver and eat it. Now that toilets have been invented, it is said that they will try to reach through them. Sometimes even through other drains, leading to showers or sinks, whenever possible.
It seems only fitting that this bot be given such a name.
Ukiyoe depicting sumo with a yokai (specter, or devil).
by Kuniyoshi Utagawa
@ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
妖怪と相撲をしているところを描いた浮世絵。
歌川国芳作 「伊達模様血気競 金神長五郎」
ボストン美術館にて。
Title: A Friendly Game
Artist: Johnny Winslow
Size: 9"x12"
Medium: Watercolor, Sumi ink on Paper
Long-Necked Women "Ikuko Mori" are interrupted playing a Japanese Game called "go".
Part of the Yokai in Your Eye exhibition at Bear and Bird Gallery in Lauderhill, Florida. For more info, please visit www.bearandbird.com
On the dossier my benefactor, Doc Boots, gave to me and my brief partner (RIP) before sending us to find the above pictured, in my benefactor's words, 'Lickyfaced Bastard.'
This is my second job with the freaky flower, as well this was my second, er... Partner assigned to me by the same.
"Unlike the Wendigo, nature is quite certain of how they feel about this.. Thing. They HATE Lickypede or..whatever the Lickyfaced Bastard is going by these days.
They hate everything it represents, they hate every bit of oily residue it leaves behind. Every fiber of the natural elements' being seem to despise it, yet tolerate it.
Treat it as part of the natural order. Grows around it, seems inspired by its chaos and fueled by its manic energy. Infects all it touches and rides life forms like a parasite.
It acts like it had always been there. Acts like it is a deity.
I am not so certain, least of this planet. It might have all the elements of our planet, but there seems to be more to it.
Not to mention its tendency to defy physics, reality... Everything really.
I am not certain it is even from this plane of existence. Not of our planet, system, galaxy, cluster, bluh bluh sure. I mean a hint beyond that.
Not quite the multiverse, but there. The fabric of the many realities. Weaving and streaming around each other. Ebbing and flowing, sometimes clashing and combining, sometimes flowing smoothly.
I am talking the area between those realities. The spot that splashes and drops dribble into.
I am certain this inky, cosmic boogun is not a deity of our world, but of the puddles that were carried away by this gutter-flow.
Not quite darkness, not quite evil. Contaminated as it runs through the muck of the other realities, yet on its way, it fertilizes some areas. Collect into a swampy horror others.
Most distressingly, there doesn't seem to be any conceivable way to scrub the taint it has left behind. It could have infect entire realities so far beyond our grasp there isn't even yet an equation that could calculate its different.
And every crack and cesspool in between. "
Absolutely feckin' inspiring.
At least it left me in the adequate mindset. Best to start the freak-out on the drive and hunt so you are ready for the encounter!
This was the picture clipped to said dossier, to further motivate me to do a bang-up job I guess. Especially that part where he wrote on the back that the picture was delivered to him by a sentient, oil-coated bird skeleton, and further theorized that it was a selfie taken by the beast itself to get Doc to either find it or send someone to find it.
As much as I had hoped that this was all the side-effects of a creature with roots and vines hijacking neural pathways and further doping up, I am inclined to believe the looney bugger.
A cosmic creature sent my boss a selfie.
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Ironwood Hills, Lost Boys
*~*~* BODY *~*~*
Shape by Me
Skin: + Fallen Gods Inc + Obsydian, Red Elemental, Shaved
*~* Head *~*
+ Aii + DreamWeaver (Rage) // Copied and Cobbled into the void in his head.
Hair: Magicka Things
Head: DRD / Death Row Designs | Faces Of Death / F.O.D | Blind Venomous Carnage
*~* Torso *~*
Ro / Remarkable Oblivion - Azrael Bone Wings - Red
Ro / Remarkable Oblivion - Broken Heart Necklace
- Cobbled and Copied by me over Torso and Arms -
+ Aii + DreamWeaver's Eye (Dream)
[ni.Ju] Cheeky Chompers
Yellow JesteR - Jeepers Peepers
*~* Arms *~*
+ Aii + Sinner Hands
*~* Waist & Hips *~*
+ Aii + Gluttonous Orifice
*~* Legs, So Many Legs *~*
+ Aii + Centipede Body
*~*~* CLOTHING *~*~*
*~* Head *~*
Tamagosenbei Purple Eye Yokai Pet
[ The Forge ] Witcher Headpiece, Gold
*~* Torso *~*
.aisling. Fangarth Necklace
.aisling. Ragun
DRD / Death Row Designs | Zombie Apoc - Zombie Arm
PFC / Pucca FireCaster creations ~ Bones - Choker
What is an Oni? Well, it’s an ogre. Or a demon. Or a troll. or a monster. Or maybe a ghost. Or a goblin. Oni are easily the most common Yokai out there, surpassing even Kappa or Tengu in appearances. They certainly serve a fairy tale monster role, especially when they hide out n the mountains and terrorise people – there are plenty of unique named Oni filling this role, such as Shuten-Doji. Some others have authority over the spirit realm, such as Chirizuka-Kaioh. Still others torment sinners in hell, such as those dudes in Dragon Ball Z.
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Tsuchikorobi and Eromodoki are new releases from Linden Toys. Wonder Festival 2012 winter. Shunobon is a vintage Bandai release 1985-86. All of these toys appeared as manga works from Shigeru Mizuki, author of gegege no kitaro.
You know, she seems less innocent now.
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Title: A Friendly Game
Artist: Johnny Winslow
Size: 9"x12"
Medium: Watercolor, Sumi ink on Paper
Long-Necked Women "Ikuko Mori" are interrupted playing a Japanese Game called "go".
Part of the Yokai in Your Eye exhibition at Bear and Bird Gallery in Lauderhill, Florida. For more info, please visit www.bearandbird.com
Especially evil spirits can be reincarnated as tortured burning wheels, cursed to spread pain and death.
Often translated as "ogre" or "demon," Oni are pretty different from both, although either word works. "Oni" were originally conceived as usually-evil spirits, similar to some of the more vicious fairies in western legends, shifting over time into large, brutish ogrelike monsters. They are usually depicted as muscular, red or blue in coloration, horned, and wearing a tiger-skin loincloth, though this varies from oni to oni. Some are said to punish sinners in the afterlife (hence "demon"), although most simply live in the mountains and kidnap or eat people (hence "ogre"). Their signature weapon is a kanabo (iron club), because an actual iron kanabowould be virtually impossible to lift or use, and thus only something with an oni's monstrous strength could wield one. "An oni with an iron club" is a colloquial phrase meaning, "something with an overwhelming advantage." There are also different personalities associated with some different types - red oni are much more savage than blue, for example.
Some trivia: Oni have been in Dungeons & Dragons since the first edition, but were soon name-changed into "ogre Mages" for fear that people wouldn't understand waht an oni was. In 4th edition, however, they reverted to "oni," and gained a little variety, such as taking a few non-oni yokai as creature types, for some odd reason.
Thank you ;w; Kaguya fits the japanese aesthetic, though his demon race is more original... Just heavily inspired by Japanese myth enough for me to pass him off as a yokai. Even if its not a 'real' one. Meaning an actual type you would find in myth and history. To much Inuyasha might have inspired this lol.
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This Yokai sticks its eyes to people it wants to watch.
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We all have them. No DEMO, no display, no Land Impact, no picture with the item or No Transfer picture. These are a few of my top pet peeves.
The response? Its free/low priced, so why are YOU complaining? Your just being rude and ungrateful. Don't want it, don't get it.
You have a point, but so do I. Handing over a trans pic of your advertisement is like a BUSINESS CARD and
*POOF*..................
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I am about 99% certain that Mehitotsu-Bozu (“The one-eyed monk”) is the same as Aobozu (“the blue/green monk”), although there are a lot of one-eyed Yokai, including more than a few in clerical garb. Stories about this fellow seem to line up well with Aobozu, and actually include a few more – along with potentially stealing children, he is also likely to challenge travelers to a sumo match, and prove far stronger than his size would suggest.
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The Umi Bozu is a massive Yokai water spirit that appears as a huge, featureless black face rising from the waves. MIMP got that face right, and then made up a body – and again, I love the creativity in this line, and it’s just a solid figure all around. It’s also one of the largest and heaviest by pure size and mass alone.
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The King of all Oni, Chirizuka Kaioh commands countless monsters from the far reaches of imagination!
As a kid back in the 70’s, each week watching this “Yokai Ningen Bem” was one of the most important parts of my life.
Originally aired in 1968 by Fuji TV but I was too young then and I first saw the show as reruns around in 1973.
Those human-like yokai monsters, Bem (Kind of fatherly figure or big brother), Bera (motherly figure then again big sister) and Bero (little boy or little brother) fought many bad spirits and monsters each week and they all turned to their real form when fighting but what they really wanted was to become a real human and I was wondering why as I thought they are just great as is.
Unfortunately I don’t have Bem in monster form but I will look for one later for sure to complete the set. Human form Bem is 3.7 inches tall.