Japanese Mythology

[Anonymous No.]

lets discuss japanese mythology.


the picture i posted is a yuki-onna, which means "snow woman". there are many different versions and are often given traits that belong to vampires. for instance some times they can not enter a house uninvited. they are almost always malevolent although sometimes more subtle than others. one might be caring a baby and ask someone to hold it and if that person does so they turn to ice. others might just summon a blizzard and freeze the human. they always have pale skin and are generally naked or wearing a kimono

[Anonymous No.]

>one might be caring a baby and ask someone to hold it and if that person does so they turn to ice

That's some good irl trolling

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>A kitsune may take on human form, an ability learned when it reaches a certain age — usually 100 years, although some tales say 50. As a common prerequisite for the transformation, the fox must place reeds, a broad leaf, or a skull over its head. Common forms assumed by kitsune include beautiful women, young girls, or elderly men. These shapes are not limited by the fox's age or gender, and a kitsune can duplicate the appearance of a specific person. Foxes are particularly renowned for impersonating beautiful women. Common belief in medieval Japan was that any woman encountered alone, especially at dusk or night, could be a fox.

Hmm, wonder who that sounds like.

[Anonymous No.]

It is now snowing.

[Anonymous No.]

Still snowing.

[Anonymous No.]

all i know about tanuki's (raccoon dog) is that they can transform and have huge testicals that can transform without the rest of the body. does anyone have more info on tanukis?

[Anonymous No.]

I love yuki-onna.

[Anonymous No.]

most of Japanese mythology are like ghost stories. A really awesome one is the legend of the kuchisake-onna. its kinda long, but Wikipedia has a good version

[Anonymous No.]

i would like to know more about "basan" it is a giant bird that resembles a chicken and it breathes ghost fire.

I would also like to know more about "ghost fire"

[Anonymous No.]

can someone tell me about the japanese gods?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921504
There's a lot of them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921504
They're not real.

[Anonymous No.]

Hey guys what's going on in this thread?

[Anonymous No.]

Kuchisake-onna was here. All other onnas are loser sluts.

[Anonymous No.]

Wait, she's a what?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921533
I love that kind of mouth in anime. So much win.

[Anonymous No.]

Umbrella ghosts.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921545
she's dead bro

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921552
Like I care.

[Anonymous No.]

Alright, so we're talking Japanese mythology.

This here monstrosity is called Waniguchi, which apparently means gong crocodile, or it better mean gong crocodile because that's what it is. Semantics aside, it behaves like a crocodile if crocodiles lived in temples and had fang-filled gongs for heads. Whether there exists an Eastern Captain Hook who hears the monster coming from its ringing head exists is up to debate. It's a vanilla tsukumogami, that is to say an animate object that gained a soul over the years. It'd be nice to have a girlfriend who also doubles as an antique radio, but given she's been used by three previous generations you may consider her a slut. Those critters don't like electricity anyway, which is used to explain why we don't have living buildings walking around.

There IS a myth of a walking building, though, in form of a demonic ramen bar that drugs its customers to sleep and turns into a portal to hell, so the monsters there can feast on the helpless victims.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921552

Id still take her home and cuddle with her.

[Anonymous No.]

This thing scares the shit out of me.

[Anonymous No.]

the ramen bar myth sounds cool. i didn't know hell existed in Japanese mythology.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2920058
Basan is practically just that, a giant heron that breathes fire. Japan has some ridiculous shit like the famous Asseyes, but that thing pales in comparison to the evolution of cockatrice or manticore.

Ghost fires are often souls of the recently dead, or can be an illusion left by kitsune (either to guide the lost or to fool them, depending on alignment and mood of the animal) They are analogous to the western Will o' the Wisps. Souls are represented, in common with the West, as either butterflies or glowing balls. They're apparently wet and slimy instead of hot, compare with Ashimagari.

[Anonymous No.]

i heard about an EXTREMELY long piece of paper, that can talk. weird hu? plz tell me if you know more about it

[Anonymous No.]

I remember there was this one god ... or half-god that all the other gods hated. They like, dropped trees and rocks and shit on him, but whenever they tried to kill him, at the very last moment he'd get away by like, sheer luck. I read about it like, nine years ago, so I think I'm getting parts of it wrong. I think it was the dude that killed Orochi, the eight headed serpent but I'm not sure.

[Anonymous No.]

so can ghost fire can't burn stuff?

[Anonymous No.]

i heard Japanese mermaids taste good, and they give you long life (around 800 years), however your long life sucks cause you outlive all your friends and family.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921695
Shikigami are paper spirits controlled by an onmyouji, akin to a magician of the West in that they dwelled in the occult as well as astronomical matters. While they are paper, they can be made to take apparance of various other creatures. Controlling one is apparently a burden on the onmyouji, Abe no Seimei is famed for being able to handle 12 at once.

Or you may be meaning Ittan Momen, which is a rather well-known creature shaped like a long, white cloth fluttering in the wind. It may attempt to strangle passersby, some say it behaves like an animal and only attacks if threatened, some say it has a preference for sinners.

[Anonymous No.]

So who here has read at least one book of the Kojiki? Show of hands, people.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921711
Susano is the killer of Orochi, but I think you may be meaning Okuninushi, who tried to marry Susano's daughter, only to have Susano try to kill him with fatal tasks. Okuninushi survived them, tied Susano's hair to his bed and ran away with the daughter. Of course, when Susano pulled his hair, his entire place came crashing down on him, which didn't deter him a bit and he went on the chase. Okuninushi asked Susano to marry his daughter while running the fuck away, Susano agreed. Weird folk, those two.

As you may get from the story, Susano is a bit of a dickhead.

Oh, he also died once or twice when his brothers turned on him too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921533
What does "Kuchisake" stand for?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921533
that movie sucked.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921805
Slit-mouth. Some samurai cut his wife's mouth ear to ear because she was a slut or something (samurai didn't really need excuses to cut people apart) and the wife turned into a demon who now asks people "Am I cute uguu~" and kills them if they say no, if they say yes she shows them her distended mouth and kills them if they're scared of her. They're distracted by throwing fruit at them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921826
I thought you could get away with it if you just say "meh you're a 5, 6 at best" or say she's mediocre/normal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921771
i have. i liked the part when susanoo threw poop all over the temple

[Anonymous No.]

they're also known for stalking

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921826

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921826
>They're distracted by throwing fruit at them.
I don't get it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921860
i'm pretty sure jigoku sensei nube did that one ages before rosario

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921884
chicks dig apples?

[Anonymous No.]

35 replies, and no Touhou references? You disappoint me /th/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921898
I'm now imagining a futakuchi onna with a collection of apples and other assorted fruit, all with her ear-to-ear grin carved on them. She treats them as people and holds long conversations with them because she has no friends.

So ronery ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921898
I'm now imagining a kuchisaki onna with a collection of apples and other assorted fruit, all with her ear-to-ear grin carved on them. She treats them as people and holds long conversations with them because she has no friends.

So ronery ;_;

[Hyper Cutter !!fZ983tH9aUp No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921904
It's so obvious it's unnecessary

[Anonymous No.]

"kuchisake" means "mouthslit"

[Anonymous No.]

whos known for stalking? plz be more clear

[Anonymous No.]

Where is a good place to find this artwork?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921924
?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2922855
Oh hell. Good game, anon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921987
Strelok

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921663

Fuck, I'm gonna see that thing when I go to bed now.

[Anonymous No.]

Jyorogumo- According to legend, when a spider turns 400 years old, she gains magical powers. She is said to be very beautiful, attractive to everyone who sees her. Stories of Jorōgumo can be found in Edo period books such as "Taihei-Hyakumonogatari" (太平百物語) and "Tonoigusa" (宿直草), and others. In these stories, Jorōgumo changes its appearance into a beautiful woman and asks a samurai to marry her or takes the form of a young woman carrying a baby[1].

A drawing in Toriyama Sekien's"Gazu Hyakki Yakō", depicts Jorōgumo half-woman/half-spider surrounded by her spider children.

Jorōgumo is also known as the master of the waterfall at Jōren waterfall (浄蓮の滝), Izu, Shizuoka. The legend has it that a man was resting at the foot of the waterfall when his feet were bound with vast numbers of spider threads. He cut the threads and tied them to a stump of a tree, which was pulled from the ground and drawn into the waters[1].

After this incident, villagers, afraid of the spider, stopped going to the waterfall. However, one day, a logger from out of town, unaware of the story, began cutting wood in the area. When he accidentally dropped the axe into the water, he dove into the pool to find it. A beautiful woman appeared and returned the axe, telling him never to tell anyone about her. While the logger kept the promise, he began feeling anxious about the incident. One day, while drunk, he told the secret and, finally feeling at ease, fell into deep sleep. He never woke again.

[Anonymous No.]

Zashiki Warasahi - A demon that brings fortune to the house it stays in. When it leaves, the house will fall to ruin.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921663
I'm having the urge to watch Gurren Lagann again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921771
Now this is a story, all about how, my life got flipped right upside down.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921663

Looks like the Antispiral

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921663
All depictions of this thing I've seen so far were outright ridiculous, so I don't really fear it. Bake-kujira the ZOMBIE WHALE is more of a threat.

At any rate, here's another fun critter, the Ushi-oni. Commonly depicted as an aquatic spider with an ox head, it is seen more or less as a wild beast and treated the same way. It may or may not be intelligent depending on the account, there are stories of one protecting a pool or agreeing to help farming if a part of the harvest is given to it in return (unless I'm confusing it for Ccoa)

[Anonymous No.]

>>2921663
What's this called?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2923386
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umibouzu

[Anonymous No.]

>>2923398
>Umibouzu
>Umibou
>Ubou
>Uboa

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