Japanese demons

Self-taught Japanese artist Shin Taga is renowned for his detailed and surreal etchings. SIGNED inside the front cover in pencil. Book reproduces over thirty of his artworks and includes Japanese text titles and descriptions of each work.

Halloween is coming up, and with the Frankenstorm on it's way, it's the perfect time to hunker down with some candles and blankets and a good ghost story. Maybe even get your friends together for a hyakumonogatari kaidankai ghost story telling party? If you're planning on telling any ghost stories this year, today's entry should

Rokurokubi are a type of yokai; Japanese supernatural creatures of various origins and traits. They are perfectly human during the day, but their necks can stretch up to incredibly long lengths at night, and which the rokurokubi will make use of to drain life out of passer us or just give them a good scare. Sometimes the rokurokubi is unaware of its nature as a yokai, leading to a situation where the yokai just thinks that it has a very weird dream every night, where it sees the town at…

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Depictions of oni vary widely but usually portray them as hideous, gigantic creatures with sharp claws, wild hair, and two long horns growing from their heads.They are humanoid for the most part, but occasionally, they are shown with unnatural features such as odd numbers of eyes or extra fingers and toes. Their skin may be any number of colors, but red and blue are particularly common. this is my own version of one i got sketching when really into masks.

“In Japanese Folklore, Nekomata is a two-tailed Demon cat. It can summon fireballs, its tails acting as torches to set fires. The Nekomata can re-animate the dead and control them like puppets”

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