Selected legendary creatures from Japan, a poll

the Mokumokuren seems pretty cool to me

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/SekienMokumokuren.jpg

i mean, how can you top the first one?

Akaname refuses to lick the handle of the toilet, though. that shit is gross.

i appreciate the specificity of hanako-san

also curious about how a giant toad wields a spear; this doesn't seem too convincing

xp lol the handle is like, very low on the list of gross shit you can lick in a bathroom

no fucking mothra???

mothra is real

yes

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

hm ya even in japanese there are no illustrations of it

just real horses and their hooves

― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 10:19 AM (two hours ago)

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http://moon.ap.teacup.com/syunjun/img/1307271094.jpg
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http://youkaitama.up.seesaa.net/image/umanoasi.jpg
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Seems like a pretty niche folktale from rural west Japan.

last image didn't render it's the profile from the eponymous Uma No Ashi twitter account:
https://twitter.com/u_310

"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."

voted for that one, seems the most freighted with meaning even if i can't quite put my finger on it (ew)

Makes me wonder if he had two anus eyes?

https://i.redditmedia.com/z-hGdDaw3AAUEfQUDDzCVlwIKKxb3skZuVHR5Tg_s5w.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/aQpFLHS.jpg

omg

"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"

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.

Seems like a pretty niche folktale from rural west Japan.

― 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

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.

ええええええ

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).

drats, i was hoping it was from a book. would be nice to read about Japanese mythology

― 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

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Yamaoroshi robbed

otm