From a Japanese monster scroll. Edo period (18th/19th century).
A disembodied, blue-skinned soul.
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From a Japanese monster scroll. Edo period (18th/19th century).
A two-headed creature that might or might not be a Muppet.
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba, a nineteenth century Japanese handscroll of uncertain authorship, is a seemingly inexhaustible source of strange creatures. Here are four interesting scans that I haven’t seen on Tumblr.
On the left are two unrelated monsters of Fukuoka, Kyushu: A blob of soft flesh suspected of being a shapeshifting Tanuki, and a dog-bird hybrid.
The center illustration is a man-eating cave said to be located somewhere in the Aso Mountain Range of Kyushu.
On the right is a fanciful portrait of a real animal, the Ezo wolf. This subspecies was extant in a limited range when the scroll was written, but the last known member died in 1889. There are still occasional sightings reported in rural Hokkaido.
Lastly, there’s a great big angry fish seen off the coast of Hokkaido.
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Wada Heita Tanenaga Killing a Giant Snake by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1834-35)
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よむ 1993年8月号
岩波書店
表紙・画=水木しげる「化け草履」
特集:夏は化けもの
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Artwork by Shigeru Mizuki
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