#Youkai

[tanuki-kimono]

Pumpkin ghost figurine handmade by Acotama, inspired by the Ghost of Sunamura ukiyoe made by Utagawa Yoshikazu for an illustrated yôkai-themed board game in 1858

[ka-go-me]

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【★】~ Twitter / X | 好大一口锅儿

[chireikiden]

I think about Sukimamori a lot.

Sukimamori (sukima = gap, yamori = gecko, mamori/mori = guardian) is a youkai created by Japan Railways West, Osaka Municipal College of Design and Osaka Metropolitan University for an awareness campaign to warn small kids (and their parents) to "mind the gap" and not fall between the train and the platform.

It dwells in the gap between train and platform (appearing when the gap is created) and is 14 meters long. It likes people who board carefully, eclairs (it kind of looks like one), and gaps, and dislikes people who board carelessly or run on the platform. Despite being a little scary, it's actually helpful and wants to stop kids from falling in. Most of all, the campaign itself - titled the mouthful yet delightfully vague Children Falling Into Gaps Prevention Project - is supposed to be attention-grabbing in order to remind people that this is a thing that can happen.

Yeah, well. Mission successful.

"Don't show any gaps in your defense", the slogan goes.

One or two of these traits could be a coincidence, but I want to believe that the specific combination of a 1.) purple youkai that 2.) lives in the gaps at 3.) train stations with 4.) prominent hand and eye imagery couldn't have been designed in a complete vacuum from Touhou. Certainly that's a pretty harmless thing to believe in. And not a hard connection to make.

https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/seiga/im11192689 (fanart, obviously)

In the end, though, Sukimamori just stands out to me because I really like this creature in its own right.

OMCD Sukimamori site Sukimamori Twitter

[nora-yoko]

[shyblacksheep]

Akane Gushiken 🎋

Something for my original comic; Akane is a young Kitsune with only two tail so far. She was adopted by an Oni, Koharu, when she became orphaned.

Kitsune lore from my comic; All kitsunes are female with white fur and red markings. The shades(hues) of white and red can vary. They are created, not born, from a kitsune biting off one of their own tails which becomes their offspring. Xander (shown in the third drawing) is the exception, he’s a lycan/kitsune hybrid and was born, he’s also possibly the very first dark furred and male kitsune. 

[ ‘NEW ⛩️ WOLF’ Toyhouse ]

[sebfreak]

Natsume on the Moonlit Night

[askdacast]

hey block people fans, so I really love the Tanuki Joel/Smallishbeans fanart goin around as inspired by @mellozheist's design and it made me think, what youkai (Japanese folklore monsters) would we portray the other Hermitcraft/Life Series members as? Some of the more obvious and fun ideas I thought of:

Scar - Kitsune, easy. Charismatic, cunning wiles, enterprising, known for tricking people, tendency to be wet cat on the rare instance you find his weakness. Also kitsune are rivals to tanuki (although Scar and Joel aren't really rivals so much as occasional partners in crime). You could alternatively choose the bakeneko because it's also a wiley shapeshifter and cat connection (RIP Jellie).

Grian - Tengu, also easy choice. Not just for the obvious pesky bird connection. Tengu are also trickster beings. They are sometimes evil (abducting humans) but sometimes benign and teach humans secret arts. They are excellent fighters and leaders, but just like a regular crow, they can just as easily goof off for no reason at all. Dangerously capable but also goofy bird fits Grian to a T.

Mumbo - Kappa, maybe? He's not associated with water much iirc but the kappa from not iRL folklore but a certain series are associated with engineering, and I needed an appropriate one for the Redstoners lol

Etho - Kamaitachi. Weasel with sharp blades. Like a tanuki (Joel), but consistently sneaky, while also being just a little guy. Can probably team up with Skizzle and Tango for the traditional trio of sneaky people with sharp blades. EDIT: I know there's fanart of him as a kitsune to match Tanuki Joel, and I'm by no means contesting that, this is just a fun alternative.

Cleo - Yamauba/Yamanba. I'M NOT CALLING CLEO AN OLD HAG, LET ME EXPLAIN. DANGEROUSLY FIERCE AND INTELLIGENT WITCH WHO LIVES IN THE MOUNTAINS AND IS JUST AS PROTECTIVE OF HER (potentially foster) CHILDREN AS MUCH AS SHE IS A TERROR TO THOSE WHO CROSS HER.

Bdubs/Skizzleman - Oni. They beeg. They angery. They not necessarily dumb but they stronk and one of them has lived in the mountains at least once. I can even see Bdubs being like a Sakata Kintoki spoof (the "son" of a yamanba a.k.a Cleo)

Jimmy - Yosuzume. Birds of bad luck. Canary curse. Need I explain more?

feel free to give alternative suggestions or ideas for the others, or ask me what youkai I think might fit certain traits, I may not know much about the block people but I know a little too much about Japanese folklore so this is just a fun exercise for me

[peachiakeen]

Another batch of youkai drawings!

[acediee]

Painted over my old Yo-Kai Watch Mermadonna artwork!

[aolyxe]

I made a touhou OC!!

She’s inugami :3

[tokumon]

Dodomeki Minosaur from Ryusoulger eps. 26 & 27

In Japanese folklore, Dodomeki is a youkai "depicted as a human woman...cursed with...long arms covered with hundreds of bird eyes due to its habit of stealing money."

[tanuki-kimono]

Final artpiece by Acotama for their youkai project, based here on Utagawa Kuniyoshi's The Origin Story of the Cat Stone at Okabe. You can find here the presentation of this piece and here the WIP of the big nekomata.

I already share two of those doll monsters (depressed pumpkin ghost / fox-deer-faced discarded hakama), but Acotama made 140 of those creatures, and some will be sold this Winter, so be sure to follow their page if you are interested :D

[ka-go-me]

. Inuvember Day 6: ѕєѕѕнσυмαяυ . 𝔹𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝔹𝕒𝕔𝕜

Somewhere on Weibo.

[doodlebethel]

It hasn’t escaped my notice that there are two anime airing this season with a powerful old youkai sealed as maneki-neko

[sebfreak]

"She was always alone. Just like me."