Kasha 火車 Yokai Cat, Highway to Hell. This member of the flaming wheel yokai category drives the bodies of the damned to Jigoku, Buddhist Hell. 悪人の死体を燃える火車で地獄へ運ぶ猫の妖怪です。oil pastel. Monster Cat.
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Hanae, Artist, Osaka via SF,CA Legends & Lore, Yokai & Monsters イラストレーター・大阪とカリフォルニア州 神話とおとぎ話・妖怪・絵本
Osaka cafe sketching: lion dance playing cards from my Legendary Bay Area watercolor playing card deck. 大阪カフェで獅子舞の絵を描きました 🎨 🦁
Legendary Bay Area watercolor poker deck is now available at Schmidt's Pub in Albany, CA. Joining years of my Pub scribbles tucked in various nooks & corners. Special price coming over to the Pub to get it. 🍺 Thank you! #customplayingcards #bayareaart
Yokai Akaname 垢嘗 muck-licker of the moldy bathhouse! Its often drawn in beastly or boyish form but who's to say the ladie's side doesn't get dirty enough to get its own roachlike yokai? Oil pastel sketching at an Osaka cafe.
Akaname (muck-licker), born of grimey Edo-period floating boathouses. It may have flourished in wooden spaces, but modern bathing rooms aren't as sustaining. That toe-foot could grip into moldy wood, but slick plastic or stone? Oft depicted as a boy but a bathhouse ladies' side can get grimey too!
分福茶釜, Falstaffian version. The classic Japanese tale of the favor-repaying tanuki who turns into a teapot & up lives it up with monks is as jolly & universal as tea itself. I imagine he'd be just as well-received at a European salon. 分福茶釜(ヨーロッパ風): テーポットに化けたタヌキなら、ティーパーティーでも同じように歓迎されることでしょう watercolor
Mothman: Follows a long human tradition of weird half-seen creatures from dubious anecdotes that may or may not foretell disaster / just be a normal creature (in this case, a sandhill crane) that some intoxicated or distressed guy saw in bad lighting. モスマン、米国の未確認動物。アマビエ・件のような予言獣か普通のカナダヅルか確認できません。
Watercolor: Puss in Boots aka Le Chat Botté aka Il gatto con gli stivali (with appearance by medieval killer rabbit, look it up). OG wingman, originally 16th century Italy, made famous by "Shararu" 😆 Perrault. 長ぐつをはいた猫。もともとイタリアのおとぎ話、フランスのチヤルル・ペローのヴァージョンで有名。ファッション+殺されたウサギ+嘘=成功というモラルです。
Setsubun 節分 let's chase out the demons & welcome in good fortune 鬼は外福は内 水彩画 ニャンちゃんの節分
Pinterestの画像は、作者を特定できないことが多くて悲しい。投稿者はそれを隠したいかのようだ。ましてAI Slopだらけだ。
丙午のしめ飾り (プラ版で作った😄) Happy New Year of the (Pink Pegasus) Fire Horse
Handprinting New Year Postcards for 2026 Year of the Firehorse 丙午の版画年賀状の制作 HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🐎
Reading a 30-year-old book about mindfulness, it's amazing how the clouded default state of fixation on personal problems, past & present, is one we would aspire to, unable to resist the escape from thinking of our phones. The floor is so much lower since social media took over. 📚💙
Vampire Watercolor 水彩画: ヴァンパイアはカラーで夢を見るのだろうか？影の中をうろつき、赤の雫しかなくても、眠るときには懐かしく緑や金を思うに違いない。
What I read for Halloween 📚💙 こわいやさん The Buffalo Hunter Hunter 怪談レストランナビ Dracula Good times
Halloween: The joy of cafe sketching at a Japan patisserie. Vampire art and spooky goodies. 大阪のパティシエで吸血鬼のを描く
Kovvmory vampiric bat monster oil pastel process. 吸血鬼みたいな怪物の絵 finishing up the Halloween #drawtober illustration
I love spooky season. 🎃 I wish it could go on longer. I used to think stores that put up Christmas decorations before Halloween were crazy but now that I have holiday merch I see customers really do start buying Christmas stuff mid-October!
Sketching the vampire monster Kovvmory with its bat friends & munching delicious hamburger steak & Japanese dessert at a cute Osaka cafe. 西宮の可愛いカフェで吸血系モンスターを描く。ハンバーグ、カスタードケーキ大福、ふわふわのきなこミルクが美味しい。 Music: pixabay.com/users/melodi...
Recarving & reprinting double-sided yokai Nekomata postcard design 猫又の版画のハガキを刷り増した
After tearing through ~380 pages in 2 days, I'm 60 pages from the end of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and I would just stop. Now. To wait a couple weeks for someone to catch up & discuss it with me. One of these days I'll join a suitable book club.
オイルパステル。Kovvmoryについてはほとんど何も知られていない。吸血鬼の一種と言われるが、実際には互いよりも、彼らが共に行動するコウモリに近い存在かもしれない。真の吸血鬼たちはKovvmoryを恥ずかしく思っているようだ。それが昆虫(だけ?)を食べる食性のせいか、それとも知性のなさのためかもしれない。低い青い光を放つことで昆虫を引き寄せる。「ムーンフィッシュ」とも名付けている…ただしその名はよくない由来から来た可能性もある。（サンフィッシュ＝マンボウ、鈍さで有名な動物。）作品を引用して敬意を表すことが多から、この絵の細部では、河鍋暁斎と歌川広重への敬意を込めてコウモリを2匹引用した。
Oil pastel. Little is known about the Kovvmory, widely said to be a kind of vampire. Kovvmory seem to be in a stupor or dream as they bob heavily thru the night sky. Japanese art often pays homage by directly referencing other works so I included bat poses from Kawanabe Kyosai and Utagawa Hiroshige.
I block anything that's a blend of cartoony and suggestive and sometimes I feel like I'm blocking all of Bluesky. Is this what Twitter was like?
It's already mid October so I've picked up The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to multitask with a seasonal Halloween read & best new books of 2025 lister in one 📚💙