#onamazu

[nekulines]

Day 14 - Onamazu

[daikaiju-chaos]

DOUBLE MERMAY POST CAUSE I HAVE THIS GIANT FISH LADY in my art folder. A doodle of an Onamazu mermaid (with a very dumb name, I know). Unlike the newer mermaids I created, after doodling this lady out, in the following months I got some ideas for a proper backstory: In a nutshell; she’s an orphan that got lost in the wilderness somewhere in Japan. She was then adopted by a family of Kappa, and as she grew up, the ambient energy from living with yokai for so long sorta turned her into a yokai herself. O-Namazuda developed into an Onamazu, a giant, earthquake causing catfish. I even gave her a signature move: “Tremor Slap”

[thekimonogallery]

Unknown artist ``Onamazu Cat Hamure'' Private collection

[meadowmines]

A few words about Nobuaki Chiba, Kijin Clan Lieutenant because he's a fun character and I love him:

He's about six foot even and built like a fridge and has a big square jaw and a butch cut and he's kind of loud and has a little bit of a dirty mind but nonetheless gives big Just A Guy energy. Definitely intimidating if you don't know him! Kind of intimidating if you do know him! But he's Just A Guy, for the most part! He likes beer and sportsball and greasy fried shit and chilling at bars with his buds and just Being A Guy!

Generally wears charcoal gray slacks and suit jacket with a purple shirt and no tie.

Actually swore up under OG Nishitani a couple years before the old man retired but as loyal a man as Kuroshi could ever want on his team.

Always chewing on a toothpick. He says he gnaws on toothpicks because he's trying to quit smoking. He says this with both a cigarette and the toothpick in his mouth.

He and Sugihara gently roast each other all the time. They have been mistaken for a couple at least once because of it. Chiba is 100% straight but does not take offense to this.

Is constantly trying to get Aoyagi laid despite having the whole ace thing explained to him multiple times by multiple people. He means well but this ain't it chief

this never changes. Aoyagi comes back to Sotenbori for OG Nishitani's funeral in 2009 and the second the service is over Chiba bodily drags him over to the Grand because it's what the old man woulda wanted

I have not nailed his irezumi down yet but Onamazu and particularly the part where it thrashes around and causes earthquakes when left unsupervised would be an amusing hint at the Chiba we see being the older, mellower version and that he was possibly somehow even rowdier in his youth than he is now

[twosecondstreet]

Onamazu, The Japanese Earthquake Fish

Been getting a few more earthquake alarms recently and it made me think about the old fishy legend of earthquakes they have here in Japan!

Didn���t think you’d see those words strung together, did you? Well, earthquakes have shaped Japan throughout its history, and the mythology and lore surrounding them is rich and developed. Continue reading Onamazu, The Japanese Earthquake Fish

[meadowmines]

Aoyagi: A king cobra, shed skin sloughing off in ribbons, hood flared and fangs bared to strike, rearing up from behind a hannya mask, with zinnia blooms. Yamaoka: Still not quite nailed down but leaning towards either a fox or Tengu Chiba: the giant catfish Onamazu, which flails around and causes earthquakes when left unsupervised, hinting that the Chiba we know might have actually mellowed with age and was somehow even MORE obnoxious in his youth Kuroshi: hoooo boy this man is inked from wrists to ankles. The main element of his irezumi is a black snake killing a tsuchinoko. Seven more black snakes wind around his arms, legs, and waist, with orange lilies for revenge. Kei-chan: Raijin, also with orange lilies for revenge.

Do your OCs have any tattoos?

[shysheeperz]

[uzumaki-blood-au]

[lpbestiary]

The Namazu is a giant catfish from Japanese mythology. He lives in the mud under the Japanese islands, and his thrashing causes earthquaked.

Kashima, the god of thunder, is said to restrain Namazu, but on the occasions he lets his guard slip, disaster follows. After the great Edo earthquake of 1855, art prints of the catfish, known as Namazu-e, became popular.

Image source.

Monster master list.

Suggest a spook.

[atomicmosaic]

meatloaf meets strata-cut animation, ew

and Long Island’s Big Fish with the Big Apple

[5at0]

(Onamazu)

[dreamncolor]

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[gilliatt83]

(Onamazu) Crazy

[clonepa]

yokai time: there is a legandary creature called Namazu (catfish) or Onamazu (big catfish) thats just a huge fucking catfish that lives beneath the earth and causes earthquakes

[encyclopika]

Animal Crossing Fish - Explained #153

Brought to you by a marine biologist with he who brings earthquakes...apparently...

CLICK HERE FOR THE AC FISH EXPLAINED MASTERPOST!

So, today will be a bit different. I’ll still be covering a fish past - the Giant Catfish - but we’ll be talking more about the myths it spawned than the animal itself. That’s not to say catfish aren’t worth covering. We just...have already. I honestly believe there were many, many more interesting catfish to choose than either of the catfish that appear in AC, but that’s just my opinion. 

The giant catfish is a lot like the regular catfish we already covered, except this one hasn’t been in the games since 2003. In the games, this was just...a larger counterpart of the regular catfish. The regular catfish in AC is the Amur Catfish (Silurus asotus), a common catfish throughout much of China and Russia. But the giant version may actually represent the Giant Lake Biwa Catfish (Silurus biwaensis). As the name implies, it is endemic to Lake Biwa, the largest freshwater lake in Japan, situated just northeast of Kyoto.   

By I, KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4205694

The fish can grow to over 3ft in length (1m), and are the largest predatory fish in Lake Biwa. When you’re the biggest fish in the lake, you start to become a legend. In Japanese mythology, the Namazu, or Onamazu, as today’s fish is called in the Japanese version, is a giant catfish that lives underground, and when it’s allowed to thrash about, it causes earthquakes. The myth seems to have started around Lake Biwa, so explains these connection. But what’s really cool is that catfish can actually predict earthquakes with some accuracy - like 80%. Before earthquakes hit, catfish in an aquarium were shown to get more agitated. That was in 1933, but it makes sense. Fish don’t want to be caught in a dangerous earthquake either. Being able to sense danger would allow the fish to move away from danger best they can.

And yes, there are SO MANY pop culture references to the catfish-earthquake connection, so if you thought of one, I’m sure it was done on purpose.

And there you have it. Fascinating stuff, no?

[icarus-suraki]

5 and 11, for the asks

Film Ask Game! Ask me things!

5. What’s the very first film you remember watching?

Panda and the Magic Serpent! I was probably 4 or 5 years old and my grandfather found a VHS tape of an English-dubbed and (heavily) edited copy of Hakujaden.

The briefest summary I can write is a boy has a little white snake as a pet, but his parents made him get rid of it, despite how much he and the snake loved each other. Now, a teenager, he plays his flute to charm the snake back to him. Little does he know that the snake was actually a magic snake and could transform into a beautiful lady. One day he hears someone playing a melody on a lute (it's really an erhu) that seems to answer his. He follows the melody, meets the lady (and her maid in waiting who was once a fish) and falls in love with her, not aware that she is the little snake. There's quite a bit of trouble and adventure after the titular Panda, Mimi (a red panda), and the maid crash through the roof of the imperial treasury and take some of the jewels without thinking about it. The boy is exiled and sentenced to hard labor. There's a measure of struggle and suffering on both sides. There's a magician out to get the snake and destroy her. There's a fish god (actually Onamazu) who whips up a storm to protect the lovers. The white snake sacrifices a lot to save the boy's life because of how much she loves him and to make up for his being exiled and suffering. But it ends happily. I think I can still sing all the songs in it and I have the lute/flute music in my head right now.

I learned much later that it first came out in 1958 and it's the first color anime movie ever made and one of the first dubbed movies released in the US. It inspired Hayao Miyazaki to get into animation, Rintaro worked on it when he was 17, it received awards in 1959... So I was a baby otaku.

And apparently a restored version was shown in 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival??? I want a copy of that, please!

I don't know, this one may actually top Robin Hood in terms of having a special place in my heart...

11. Your favourite movie genre?

If you want me to say horror, I think you'll have to keep waiting.

While I do like horror, while I watch a lot of horror movies, I don't know that it's my favorite genre. I sometimes feel more like I'm just pushing my own sense of extremity when I dig into horror or extreme or disturbing movies.

I kind of like "gothic" movies, like Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Interview with the Vampire and The Crow and Crimson Peak and Dracula and all, though I like them most in October, of course.

I do love "folk horror" as a genre and I wish there were more (and better) examples of it. I go back and forth on whether I think Midsommar is folk horror. The Blood on Satan's Claw definitely is.

I like weird movies like A Field in England and some serious dramas like Dead Poet's Society and a lot of dark humor like Gosford Park (seriously, I recommend it).

But I think, looking back on the movies I've listed in answers to the other questions... I think I really like fantasy movies.

Not necessarily "high fantasy" movies. Like LotR is great, absolutely, but sometimes the epic saga feeling isn't what I want. Sometimes I want wire-fu or weird puppets or wildly inaccurate costuming because fuck you that's why or a sense of strangeness or a dreamlike quality. Swords and kings and battles is fine. But I often want something outside the Tolkien-style of fantasy. Elements of that style can be there--swords, wizards, elves, &c--but I like breaking away from that.

Same thing with science fiction: I don't really go for "hard" science fiction. I like things that might technically be science fiction but which focus on something else or more. Solaris is like this--but the original movie, please, and you should read the book. And the real Star Wars trilogy are like this: yes, it's the future with robots and aliens and things, and yes there's a war on, but it's not like LotR. It's less epic. It feels scrappier. It feels more like movies made in the 60s about World War II where you've got upstarts and resistance fighters and black market sales and beings just trying to get by.

So, maybe, I just like genres that involve imaginary places and imaginary things.