Macabre Kids Book Art by Gōjin Ishihara
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| Yamasei, the mountain sprite, just looks like a disagreeable fellow if you ask me |
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| The kappa are river imps Their behavior goes beyond what I ever would expect from the name |
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| Yūrei are simply ghosts This depiction is both beautiful and scary |
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| Jorōgumo “whore spider" I own a wonderful rendition by a gifted American artist Matthew Meyer is currently living in Japan |
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| Kubire-oni is a strangler demon new to me |
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| Kyūbi no kitsune is the nine-tailed fox I'm not certain of the significance of the woman's face Nine (kyū) tails is the limit, showing great age and wisdom |
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| Rashōmon no oni is an ogre at the Rashōmon gate The detachable arm is just creepy |
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| Rokurokubi, the long-necked woman I've run into her ilk in other renditions of eerie folklore |
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| Onmoraki is a bird demon adapted from Chinese folklore |
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| Nekomata is a cat monster The neko (cat) being a housept of mine, I'm rather alarmed that this one went for the jugular |
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| Waira, the mountain-dwelling chimera, gives me another reason to stick to flatlands in Japan |
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| Baku is the dream-eating chimera This notion scares me more than anything else |
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| Tenjō-sagari dwells in the ceiling, which is pretty obvious here I feel sorry for the sleeping young man and at the same time, it's such an eerily sensual scene I can't look away |
Maybe the woman's face appears because sometimes the kyubi appears as a beautiful woman?
ReplyDeleteI've always thought that no matter how much my cats like me, if I were small enough they'd eat me.
Those are cool!
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Paige
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Thanks for sharing these!
ReplyDeleteVery cool. My girls would be all over this. Happy T13!
ReplyDeleteGood grief. They have a lot of monsters to scare their kids into being good.
ReplyDeletecreepy and fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteStrangely alluring, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteVery cool! Kinda creepy-scary, but cool.
ReplyDeleteThose are really kind of creepy!
ReplyDeleteAt first, I missed the part about these appearing in books for children. I'll go with others here and say creepy. Using the white backgrounds to contain your comments is very attractive.
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