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Kare Meshi - Extra Fort
Ramen Muscleman (Édition spéciale Muscleman -"Kinnikuman" en japonais - Porc, boeuf et légumes.)
Pocky Giant Yokai Watch Fraise (Édition Limitée)
Kit Kat mini - Tarte aux pommes – Édition Spéciale de Pâques.
Kit Kat mini - Sakura Thé vert (Boîte de 3)
Shimi Choco Corn Stick
DonDon Yaki (ソース taste)
Kare Meshi - Extra Strong
Kinnikuman Ramen (Special edition. Pork, beef and vegetables instant noodle cup.)
Pocky Giant Yokai Watch Strawberry (Limited Edition)
Kit Kat mini - Apple Pie – Easter Special Edition
Kit Kat mini - Sakura Green Tea (3 packs)
Shimi Choco Corn Stick
DonDon Yaki (ソース taste)
カレーメシ 大辛
「キン肉マン大阪ラーメン」パッケージ
「妖怪ウォッチジャイアントポッキー」(ジバニャンとフユニャン)
キットカットミニ イースター キャロット仕立てのアップルパイ味
キットカットミニ 桜抹茶
しみチョココーン スティック
どんどん焼き (ソース味)
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Amefurikozo: The Umbrella Imp, Amefurikozo is a weather spirit that resembles a child wearing an umbrella for a hat and carrying a lantern. It often dances around in the rain, and actually has the power to make the rain fall.
Chochinobake: One of many Tsukumogami, inanimate objects that, upon their 100th birthday, become living creatures. Chochinobake is a paper lantern come to life.
Kaeru: Little lucky frogs, with the same source as the small lucky frog statues (Chan'chu) from Chinese tradition.
Have had Yokai on the brain recently, so here's a quick hari-onago, or hooked hair woman. obakemono.com/obake/harionago/
The Boss of the Yokai, Leader of the Hyakki Yako, and Lord of all Monsters, Nurarihyon is surely the most powerful and dangerous of all monsters and ghosts in Japan...
...What this odd little old man does is sneak into your house while you're away, drink your tea, eat your food, and use your stuff. He then leaves before you come back. HOW NEFARIOUS!!!!
Well, I guess it's kind of annoying to have an eggplant-headed old man squatting in your house like an unwanted uncle.
This picture is of Nurarihyon chillin' with a couple of his monstrous yokai buddies.
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At least two yokai (Japanese demons/monsters) tearing up a noodle shop (to the dogs' delight). Library of Congress image.
cut and torn paper / wood
10 1/8″ x 7 1/4″
"Paper Pushers" group show until September 6, 2008
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The fiercely playful Nekomata (猫叉) joins my hoard of Yokai today. When I first came to Japan, I wondered why so many cats were completely lacking in tails. I guessed that they might be a strangely stubby local breed. It turns out that the owners cut off the tails when the cat is a kitten so it won’t turn into a nekomata, a “forked-cat”.
I went a little skull crazy. 'Cuz you can never have too many skulls.
Read More about Nekomata and see some detail pics on my lil' blog.
Japanese Ghostly Zoology as seen through the eyes of a variety of North American Artists ... and Japanese artist Naoto Hattori.
Opening Night Festivities:
Saturday, June 14, 2008; 7:00 - 10:00pm
Join us at the opening for complimentary cold sake, sushi and other Japanese treats.
Show runs through July 26, 2008
Group show featuring original artwork by:
Alan Defibaugh; Alessandro Echevarria; Alexei Vella; Andrew Bell; Andrice Arp; Attaboy; Brandon Reese; Brandt Peters; Colin Christian; Craig Arndt; Danielle Estefan; Duane Hosein; Eric Bryan; Greg Kletsel; Helena Garcia; James “Jimbot” Demski; Jesse Reklaw; Jimmy Krimmer; Johannah O’Donnell; Johnny Winslow; Josie Devora; Mairuzu; Meg Hunt; Michael Slack; N! Satterfield; Nancie Yang; Naoto Hattori; Nathan Stapley; Rosemary Travale; Sarah J. Pierce; Terribly Odd; Todd Nolan and MORE!
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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: 和漢百物語, or Wakan Hyaku Monogatari.
Original caption: 主馬介卜部季武
Translated (via Google Translate) caption: Omo-bakai Urabenosuetake
Image source: dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1311798
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 yōkai, 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 sumō 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 Tōkyō 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.
This is my contribution to Nathan Jurevicius's Scarygirl 10th Anniversary Show being held at Toy Tokyo Underground on Halloween 2012 in NYC.
When Nathan asked me to be in the show, it was a geek moment for myself as the original Treedweller vinyl toy was and still is, one of my favorite toys from recent years.
For my take on his Treedweller character, I wanted to pay homage to Nathan and the fabulous characters that he has created. In my world, the Treedweller is a voluptuous, sinister vixen who entices unwary travelers with her alluring smile and fetching body. Her eyes glisten and her lips grow wet at the thought of finding yet another victim, as she arches her back in anticipation of the feast to come.
This piece was created with polymer clay, epoxy on a wood base and painted with acrylics. The Scarygirl character is removable so that it can be optionally displayed with the scene.
Please inquire with Toy Tokyo Underground for availability.
Humble thanks to Nathan for asking me to participate in his show. Congratulations on 10 years of Scarygirl and many more to come. Keep killin it.
A hossu is a type of fly swatter, owned and wielded by Buddhist priests – 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 guy’s head is a hossu. He looks lively, doesn’t he?
Now, that little wormy thing below him? It’s a chestburster. From Alien. Sort of. See, there’s this really famous epic horror novel, Teito Monogatari – 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 couldn’t a spirit take the form of something modern? What’s so crazy about that? And now it makes sense.
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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-...
At the Mizugi Shigeru yokai (Japanese monsters) exhibit at the Osaka Culturarium in Tempozan Harbor.
Nurarihyon is the most powerful Yokai of all – he’s 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 you’re away, eat your food and drink your tea, and then sneak away before you return home. Well, that’s… something.
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There was an especially stingy man who lived without the companionship of a wife. He insisted that, were he to marry, the woman would consume too much food, throwing off his miserly budget.
One day, a beautiful, young woman appeared in town. Though many men courted her, all of them withdrew their romantic advances when she refused to eat anything. The stingy man was delighted to hear about this curious quirk, and he courted her. Indeed, she never ate, and he asked her to be his wife.
Not long after, the man began to notice that food in his house was missing. He entered his pantry every morning and found that most of his stock was gone. Suspecting his wife, he watched her, but never saw her consume even a grain of rice. One night, he awoke to find himself alone in bed. He crept into the kitchen to find his wife sitting in the middle of the room. Her hair swirled around her like tentacles, grabbing food, then shoving the morsels into a wide mouth that had opened on the back of her head.
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?"