#Mononoke 2007

[snakesonankles]

wip ill never finish, just cant get myself to render this fully lol sorry guys

[nacch-an]

Mononoke Lore Crash Course - So There Are 64 Medicine Sellers Running Around

A short summary of Mononoke lore. Originally posted this on Twitter, basically the same but I added some stuff after rereading the bagua wikipedia page

Sources:

- On multiple medicine sellers and their swords

- On the Shuuga realm and Shingi

- On the exorcism swords and the organizational structure of Juuyoku

[rivvszn]

mononoke is so funny because you have the series medicine seller who's like idgaf war veteran on the 9-5 grind and judging people in his head sexily and then you have movie medicine seller whose whole thing is poster pretty boy does unnecessary twirls and flips while hunting down enemies and ships lesbians in free time

[lantddinh]

Vent drawing so I can feel better about not being able to watch the new movie

[of-form-and-spirit]

the medicine seller in the second bakeneko arc.

[nemomo]

kon counterpart to ri

[thefacelesschick]

Every soul standing next to you is a portal.

[distorted-destiny]

entering the mononoke fandom the only way i know: by making shitpost.

[thensocrates]

(serious)

[crocyart]

Breakroom

[shreddheir]

Mononoke Theory: the hexagrams= the types of Mononoke each medicine seller is tasked with exorcising.

I was doing some looking into Bagua, specifically the meanings of the Ri and Kon trigrams, for obvious reasons. And I found something quite interesting concerning the Attributes each trigram holds.

At first, I was hoping that they’d relate in some way to the personality or symbolism surrounding the medicine sellers themselves. But that didn’t seem to entirely be the case. Ri has the attributes “light-giving, humane, dependence”. The first two make sense, as he DOES bring metaphorical light (truth and understanding) by exorcising Mononoke, and he has been shown to express kindness towards the spirits that end up in these pitiable situations. But dependence? That makes…less sense.

Until I realized that Dependence is (in one way or another) a factor in the stories of all the Mononoke he’s exorcised.

Children aborted against the wishes of their mothers, the aftermath of a codependent incestuous affair, a battered woman who’s too afraid to leave the family she despises, an evil spirit desperate for the love of others, and a dead woman trying in any way she can to get the truth of her death brought to light….all of these Mononoke are spirits who were dependent on others, whether that’s their victims or the ones who wronged them. And all of them were exorcised by the wielder of the Ri sword—the sword of the dependence attribute.

Conversely, Kon’s attributes are “devoted/yielding.” Though we’ve only seen him exorcise one Mononoke so far, it was the spirit of a woman who was so devoted to her work it destroyed everything else inside of her. And since the other two movies in his trilogy also seem to be taking place in the Ooku, it seems like they will also deal with the consequences of letting your devotion to a cause destroy your personhood.

TL;DR: both Ri and Kon seem to specialize in spirits that have attributes of their respective trigram. Also, both their trigrams have associations with women: Ri is associated with the second daughter and Kon is associated with the mother.

[maestrozaverick]

Being a Mononoke fan isn’t easy

[nacch-an]

popular pastime in juuyoku: shogi

[mockngjuly]

Fire and wind

[lantddinh]

According to the DVD/Bluray artworks, his hair is realllllly long. And I can't find scanlations for those anywhere.

I want to have some fanarts of the new medicine seller.