pretty sure I've encountered all of these in jrpgs
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
Rokurokubi obv
― the late great, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
i actually visited this exact wiki entry and did just this maybe half a year ago
great minds mookz <3
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
Shirime (Japanese: 尻目, lit. "buttocks eye")
― mizzell, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
I voted for Uma-no-ashi because I enjoyed the mental image of someone getting booted up the arse by a horse's leg that's dangling from a tree, google images search results for Uma-no-ashi are providing disappointingly few high-quality visual representations of this particular legendary creature (though maybe it's like when people say that a particular book shouldn't be adapted into a visual medium because it could never live up to the version in your mind's eye)
― soref, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
or maybe it wouldn't kick people up the arse or hard enough to knock them over, but just this insistent tap-tap-tap-tap-tap whenever anyone got too close to the tree like it was reminding them to keep their distance
― soref, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
hm ya even in japanese there are no illustrations of it
just real horses and their hooves
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
is there a book or something where you are reading about these?
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
mookie linked the wiki entry in his first post
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
drats, i was hoping it was from a book. would be nice to read about Japanese mythology
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
Did we poll the monster scroll at some point?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
definitely most upset by the wet dog.
― how's life, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
the Mokumokuren seems pretty cool to me
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/SekienMokumokuren.jpg
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
i mean, how can you top the first one?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
Akaname refuses to lick the handle of the toilet, though. that shit is gross.
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
i appreciate the specificity of hanako-san
also curious about how a giant toad wields a spear; this doesn't seem too convincing
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
xp lol the handle is like, very low on the list of gross shit you can lick in a bathroom
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
no fucking mothra???
― ian, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
mothra is real
― had (crüt), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
yes
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
f bird yeah i agree but i just wanted to reference the toilet handle thread. the issue of bathroom fixture grossness doesn't come up often, i didn't want to waste the opportunity
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
hm ya even in japanese there are no illustrations of itjust real horses and their hooves― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 10:19 AM (two hours ago)
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 10:19 AM (two hours ago)
http://wikiwiki.jp/heian/?plugin=ref&page=%C7%CF%A4%CE%C2%AD&src=%C7%CF%A4%CE%C2%AD.gifhttp://moon.ap.teacup.com/syunjun/img/1307271094.jpghttp://resize.blogsys.jp/0ea141deb06f097ba31e05788760f44d25b7a07c/crop1/210x210/http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/doyonojun/imgs/6/f/6f9f6993.gifhttp://youkaitama.up.seesaa.net/image/umanoasi.jpghttps://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1640214155/icon_400x400.jpg
Seems like a pretty niche folktale from rural west Japan.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
last image didn't render it's the profile from the eponymous Uma No Ashi twitter account:https://twitter.com/u_310
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
"The story goes as follows: Long ago, a samurai was walking at night down the road to Kyōto, when he heard someone calling out for him to wait. "Who's there?!" he asked nervously, only to turn around and find a man stripping off his clothes and pointing his bare buttocks at the flabbergasted traveler. A huge glittering eye then opened up where the strange man's anus should have been."
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
voted for that one, seems the most freighted with meaning even if i can't quite put my finger on it (ew)
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
Makes me wonder if he had two anus eyes?
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
https://i.redditmedia.com/z-hGdDaw3AAUEfQUDDzCVlwIKKxb3skZuVHR5Tg_s5w.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/aQpFLHS.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
omg
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
"Hokusai's painting, created in front of the Shogun, consisted of painting a blue curve on paper, then chasing across it a chicken whose feet had been dipped in red paint. He described the painting to the Shogun as a landscape showing the Tatsuta River with red maple leaves floating in it, winning the competition"
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
The akateko appears—just as the name implies—as a red, disembodied hand belonging to a child. It is found hanging in Japanese honey locust trees.
Akateko drops down from trees as people pass underneath them. Aside from giving its victims a nasty surprise and the general creepiness of a disembodied red child’s hand, it is not known for causing any great harm.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 12:49 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha ya i just gis'd 馬の足 and completely glossed over the two with leg and hands
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E9%A6%AC%E3%81%AE%E8%B6%B3&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXo5_QycnZAhUqh1QKHS0YDSAQ_AUICigB&biw=1257&bih=655
good detective work
sadly those drawings are lame
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
it is not known for causing any great harm
this is interesting because on the face of it a horse's leg dangling out of a tree seems less scary than a red, disembodied hand belonging to a child dangling out of a tree, but apparently the it's the horse leg might murder you:
This is a legendary beast that is said to be trees which have a horse's legs that dangles from the branches and kicks people who walk by.The horse's leg also hides within the leaves and waits for someone to walk by to kick before returning to hide amongst the foliage. Some Uma-no-ashi are so evil that they'll kick their victim until they are dead.
The horse's leg also hides within the leaves and waits for someone to walk by to kick before returning to hide amongst the foliage. Some Uma-no-ashi are so evil that they'll kick their victim until they are dead.
― soref, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
ええええええ
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
i have the book that the picture itt, the one where the horse leg is kicking the kid and the kid has a question mark over his head, comes from. Or it's by the same cartoonist. I don't even know the title but it's a thick illustrated encyclopedia of japanese ghosts, each page is a big black and white illustration with a bunch of japanese text beneath it. It's one of my most prized possessions; the untranslated text does not hinder it in the slightest for me. It was in two volumes (I have the blue one and I wish I had scratched together the money for the red one).
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Search "Yokai" on amazon and you'll find lots of books about these guys. There's also a number of films, Great Yokai War is a lot of fun but there's also some from the 50s and 60s.
As soon as I saw this thread I thought "better have the anus eyeball guy". Surprisingly no Tanuki.Here he is in a game. http://www.bogleech.com/gba-kitarou2.html
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 March 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 3 March 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
Yamaoroshi robbed
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
otm
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 March 2018 03:28 (six years ago) link