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Japanese Yokai Portraits

In: Festive| Graphics| Site Feeds| Unusual| pinktentacle.com

24 Oct 2009

This month, in the spirit of Halloween, Fukui-based yōkai painter Matt Meyer is creating daily portraits of Japan’s traditional monsters and adding them to his A-Yokai-A-Day collection. Here are a few images from the site, which will be updated with a lovely new terror each day until the end of October.

Kuchisakeonna, the severed-mouth woman --
Kuchisake-onna — slit-mouth woman

Akaname, the bathroom scum licker --
Akaname — bathroom scum licker

Nurarihyon, leader of the yokai --
Nurarihyon — yōkai boss

Yamamba, the mountain hag --
Yama-uba — mountain hag

Hyosube --
Hyōsube — river imp

[Link: A-Yokai-A-Day]

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Tags: boss, demons, fukui, Halloween, kuchisake, matt meyer, onna, portraits of japan, scary stuff, scum slit monsters, spirit of halloween, terror images, Unusual, yokai

1 Response to Japanese Yokai Portraits

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November 2nd, 2009 at 4:55 pm

Hello there, Happy few days-after-Halowen! Today the real scares come when all you one night standers find out you just got a nasty case of herpes.

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