curious ordinaryさんのイラストまとめ

Finally here are some bird details from #ukiyoe prints.
🎨1. 'Crows in Moonlight' - Shoson Ohara, 1927
2. 'Bird on Cherry Branch' - Utagawa Hiroshige.
3. 'White Herons & Willow' - Shoson Ohara, 1926.
4. 'Shrike and Bluebird with Begonia & Wild Strawberry' - Hokusai, 1834.
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...basan. If you hear one and look outside, it will immediately disappear into the night if you see it. Sometimes this yokai is also called the 'fire rooster.'
🎨1. Takehara Shunsen's Ehon Hyaku Monogatari.
2. Matthew Meyer
3. ah-kaziya on DeviantArt
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...which is cold rather than hot. They feed on the charred embers left after fires go out and avoid human contact by hiding in remote bamboo groves. Rarely they will appear in villages and the beating of their wings makes a 'basa basa' sound, which is how they got the name...
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'Heron in the Storm' - Ohara Koson, 1935.
#ukiyoe #art #Japan

...children in the afterlife by feeding them their milk. If a young child dies it's customary to leave chinouya offerings. Unfortunately this yokai can also be very dangerous for living children causing them to become weak & even die. If a child gets too close to the river...
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In #JapaneseFolklore chinouya are a #yokai that look like kind human women with long black hair and very large breasts. They live in rivers near graveyards where children are buried, and come out of the water to nurture the spirits of the dead...
#ayokaiaday #FolkloreSunday
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...often constructing homes with silk tubes to capture their prey. Considering their size, humans are seen as an ideal food source. Often Tsuchigumo will use shapeshifting to trick victims. Most famously, the warrior Minamoto no Yorimitsu encountered this yokai on several...
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In #JapaneseFolklore Tsuchigumo (earth spider) is a gigantic spider #yokai. It is believed that long-lived spiders can gain supernatural powers and become yokai whereupon they grow to enormous sizes. They live in forests or mountain caves...
#MythologyMonday #ayokaiaday
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Hyakume (which means hundred eyes) is a #yokai that lurks around in the shadows of abandoned homes or empty temples.
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If you ever wake up to find muddy little footprints around your bedroom, it might be because you've had a visit from a #yokai known as makuragaeshi (pillow flipper), which isn't always a good thing. More info in the thread below.
🎨Sophie Lupas
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