#yōkai

[jareckiworld]

Joanna Karpowicz — The Fox's Wedding (Anubis Meets Yōkai) [acrylic on canvas, 2022]

[circusinarun]

Mommy? Sorry, mommy? Sorry, mommy? Sorry, mommy?

[niqvassieart]

Some Japanese yōkai coffee labels done for Nishimuki!

This brief was so fun! Kappa are found in rivers and akaname thrive in dirty, cluttered areas of houses licking grime off things. So best to keep our rivers clean and our homes a little less clean to give these beings space to live!

Can confirm the coffee is delicious too <3

[deadinsidegraphics]

Kabuki

[coughrat]

I'm on a roll!! But more Yōkai Wotchi!

[mewpewmoo]

YOKAI VS HUNTERS MANGA COVER feat. the 3rd years.

Summary

Ena Shinonome has always been able to see the yokais in the world she lives in ever since she was a child. She had always thought she was the only one who could see them.... that was until she bumped with her middle school friend, Airi, who she hadn't seen for a while ever since a certain incident....

(This was meant for Halloween but I'm already too late :P It was worth posting I somewhat had 77 layers to make this)

[friskwolfiecustoms]

Tsuchinoko plush are now available in my 🛒!

You can pick from my 70 fabric and thread colors to make your own custom Tsuchinoko!

[devilzukin7-johnny-cage]

Little spider, little Yōkai

Characters:

Johnny Cage (Mortal Kombat)

Araceli Cage (my OC)

Mortal Kombat (c) Netherrealm Studios / WB / Midway before

[valtiels-darkness]

Sorry (Read as: Most certainly NOT sorry): For HCing Orochimaru and his clan as the reason vampire myths and/or certain Yōkai myths exist in the Naruto universe.

[cyberianpunks]

(҂◡_◡) ᕤ

[jareckiworld]

Joanna Karpowicz — Haunted Gas Station (acrylic on canvas, 2024)

[loneberry]

Demon Pond (夜叉ヶ池), directed by Masahiro Shinoda (1979)

Kabuki camp! Yokai cosplay! Somehow this film struck a satisfying balance between riotous fun and lovelorn melancholy. I knew I was in for a wild ride when, in the beginning of the film, a village woman tries to cleanse the dust lodged in the traveler’s eye with breast milk squirted straight from her teat.

There were scenes that seemed directly culled from my dreams… the wall of water, the threatened village, the tinkle becoming glissandi in the Harp Playing Valley. It must be a primordial structure of the human psyche—that uncanny feeling you get looking at a body of water, when it appears somehow volitional, perhaps ominously so. It is dreaming. It is sentient. It is a prison… Who is held captive to these waters? A princess in love, ready to unleash her fury.

File under oneiric cinema.

[m0nsterb0yricky]

The forgotten god :Hachishaku-sama

[absintheaspic]

Lord Hamasaki Shigeru & Lady Hamasaki Shino (nee Ishikawa)

From November 2024. You can read more about them here:

[cara-the-yiga-footsoldier]

Shippo

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #FrockFriday, this was definitely one of the highlights of the #KimonoStyle exhibition at The Met:

Man's Under Kimono (Nagajuban) with Spider and Spiderweb Taisho (1912-26) or Showa (1926-89) period, 1920s-30s Crepe silk (chirimen) with freehand paste-resist dyeing (yüzen) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"Worn under an outer garment or at home, the nagajuban frequently bore eye-catching designs that would be seen only by family and friends. The large spider perched on the right shoulder of the crepe silk robe, whose back is covered with a web against gray clouds, exemplifies such a decoration. The pattern could be a reference to Tsuchigumo [Yōkai], a monstrous, shape-shifting spider featured in Japanese myths and legends as well as in Noh and Kabuki plays. The dramatic, supernatural subject was also featured in ukiyo-e prints, which might have inspired this nagajuban's composition."