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Koi for short! ✨ Harmony 和 ✨ ★Writer and storyteller📚 ★ Folklorist and Yōkai Enthusiast👻 ★ ACE ✨ ★ Smol pngtuber 🦊 ★ FFXIV and other games! 🎮 ★ Martial Artist 👊🏾 ★ Cute things! 🍬 ★ koinariwrites.carrd.co (*^▽^*) ❤️ mochiarts.bsky.social ❤️
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座敷童･（まとめ０１）　【再投稿】 www.pixiv.net/artworks/127... （過去絵で！　連休！　対応！　ですよ！） （最近SNSご無沙汰で失礼しております）

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Kasaobake are often referred to as tsukumogami, object ghosts that come alive after 100 years. But in fact, they were created around the late Edo period and most likely come from a quick-change routine in kabuki theater. www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Japanese-Yokai-Creatures/dp/4805317736/

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'Bridge over Waterfall' - Takahashi Shotei, 1924. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

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In Japanese mythology, the god Susanoo married Kushinadahime, but they had a rather unusual courtship. It all started after Susanoo was expelled from the heavens after his terrible behaviour towards his sister Amaterasu. As he wandered on the earthly plain he came across a couple... #FolkyFriday 1/4

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A journey begins to reclaim the lost.

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Goodnight. 🖼️ Raven, Alan Baker.

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Fox guardian statue at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto. #DailyInari #Shinto #kitsune #Japan

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she would have loved the McBaguette 🥖🍟

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Fox wedding #yokai #YokaiPictureBookProject

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きつねちゃんのおうち ｢おやすみなさい🍞｣

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Here's my yokai girl, Yusoka. She's a kumoneko. Her species is very obscure, and they are rarely acknowledged in Japanese folklore.

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This ukiyo-e print is titled 'Hazy Moon Cats' or alternatively 'Pale Moon, Cats in Season' (1846) and depicts cats as courtesans in the Yoshiwara pleasure district. #Caturday #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

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販売開始しました！ 当日持ってきた方にはサイン✍️します！！！ 販売サイト↓ tsukushiteam.official.ec/items/99009109

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Aiden the Cookie Ninja! How the heck did he get up there?? the details in this are incredible btw very cute comm by: @mochiarts.bsky.social #aiden

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Stone altar on Mount Inari at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto. #DailyInari #Shinto #torii #Japan

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Tanuki-Bayashi 狸囃子 (Tanuki Rhythm) -[yokai] - An auditory phenomena: you think you hear the sound of taiko drums, but if you try to walk towards the source of where the music is coming from, it only gets further away... - One of the 'Seven wonders of Honjo.' 🥁 more: samkalensky.com/products/tan...

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Bōzu-danuki - [Yokai] - A Tanuki that was said to live in the thicket by a bridge known as "Bōzu-bashi" in Tokushima. Legend had it that whenever someone crossed Bōzu-Bashi they would suddenly find that their heads had been shaved clean like a Buddhist monks!!! Full: samkalensky.com/products/boz...

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Blood sucking Sakura - 血を吸う桜 - [Urban Legend|yokai] - a rumour where in a corpse is buried under a cherry tree, Often a school mystery, where a student or teacher was murdered. The tree absorbed their blood, turning the blossoms a blood-red-pink. 🌸Full story: samkalensky.com/products/blo...

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Hanako-san of the toilet. - はなこ - The ghost of a young girl who haunts the 3rd stall. – A fixture of Japanese Elementary school ghosts & legends dating back to the 1980s (Though her origins might actually go back decades!!) My 150th yokai sticker: https://samkalensky.com/products/hanako-san

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春よこいこい🌱

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2 fullbody comms for @/norternfluffyb1 on twitt!! 🦊💖

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AburaAkago - [yokai] - The spirit of an oil thief that appears as a flaming infant, flies through the window at night to lick up lamp oil! One theory persists that perhaps, the shadow of cats drinking the fish-based oil might have been mistaken for a child👻: samkalensky.com/products/abu...

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きょうの妖怪 #和漢百魅缶 通算8126体目【伽羅の焚殻】福神のつかいたちが、とてもよい伽羅の灰を買い取りに来ること。おめでたいおめでたい。「福助初買踊」の唄の文句（「伽羅の焚きがら買お、やれ買お、おお買お」）などに見られる縁起のよいおかいもの。 koorinteihyousen.blog.shinobi.jp/Entry/6251/

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'Masaki Inari Shrine' from the series 'Famous Places in Tokyo' - Utagawa Hiroshige III, 1869. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #torii

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さよなら親知らずくん🦷✨ #Illustration #Chihuahua #イラスト

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The fox and her jewel.

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スポーツ観戦楽しいね！📣✨ #Illustration #Chihuahua #イラスト

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This is a beautiful piece! I love art! ; w;

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설날 잘 보내셨나요?

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The art is so nice!

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須田くん(2014年)

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They’re friends!!!

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さんぽ道🌸

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can puppy and kitty REALLY get along? 🤔

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Thinking about illustrating children’s books but not sure where to start? Here are 6 ways to work as a children’s illustrator ✏️📚 #kidlit Thread:

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窓ぎわにて🌼

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A cute piece!

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 もうすぐバレンタイン💝✨ #chihuahua #illustration #イラスト

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❄️❄️❄️ #PowerPuffGirls

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キツネの親子

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My OC Liam says hi! #kidlitart #sketch

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Such a fun piece!

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厄除けギターソロ🐍🎸🎶

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I have bought the book! It is beautiful! Please support the artist!

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🌼Last chance to take home your copy of A Little Witch’s Dream, with a limited edition signed bookplate by @mengxuanli.bsky.social Preorders will close 2/16 at 11:59 PM PST 🐈‍⬛ gallerynucleus.com/detail/40735/ #sliceoflife #artbook #catlover #cuteart #whimsicalart #conceptart #pleinair

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