Introduction

Hi!

Onisamas are coming back!
I'm planing to repeat this wonderful project once again!

New BJD exibition at Japanese Culture Home in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Preliminary date  - April/May 2018.

Theme - Japanese Mithology.
Gods and Deities, legendary creatures from Japan, historical heroes what become worshiped as a gods. Traditional mithology, Buddhist pantheon and renewed heroes of present days manga and anime.
Everyone are welcome!

Information

List of Japanese deities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_deities

List of legendary creatures from Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_from_Japan

You can add your links, source or references below.

Enenra - Dūmų Demonas

Enenra - "išaustas iš dūmų", išblėsusio laužo dūmų demonas. Virtuvės ar pirties dūmų dvasia. Paprastai turi žmogišką formą.

An Enenra (煙々羅 en'enra^?, lit. "lightweight-fabric smoke") is a yōkai, or Japanese monster, that is composed of smoke. It resides in bonfires and, when it emerges, it takes the form of a human. It is said that an enenra can only be seen by the pure of heart.

The character 羅 in the enenra's name is meant to draw a comparison between the enenra and the lofty characteristics of lightweight cloth.

In the 2011 video game Mortal Kombat, it is revealed that the character Smoke (who makes his first human appearance in the game in almost two decades) is an Enenra. As a child he was burned for sacrifice and survived in the form of Smoke Demon.

Manau šis personažas gal net geriau tiktų kaip dar vienas backgroundo akcetas. Nupaišysime kur nors iš už namo kampo vinguruojantį vaiduoklišką dūmą:

Oni Samurai

Radau daugiau informacijos tinkančios mano "Samurajaus su Šarvais" įvaizdžiui.

Pasirodo yra toks veikėjas - Demon Samurai.

Some samurai pledge their loyalty to powerful fiends, and in return they are invested with demonic power. Cruel, dangerous, and loyal to a force of primal evil, Demon Samurai wander the land or lead armies of their lesser fellows, seeking to restructure the world to fit their own deviant desires.

Byakko - Baltasis Tigras

Baltasis Tigras Byakko yra labai gražus personažas. Stiprus ir romantiškas vienu metu. Gražuolis baltais plaukais. Populiarus anime filmų ir mangų veikėjas. 

Čia tikrai neišvardinsiu visos Byakko inonografijos, bet paveikslėlių įdėsiu daug. Grožėkitės.

The White Tiger is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. It is sometimes called the White Tiger of the West (西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ), and is known as Baihu in Chinese, Byakko in Japanese, Baekho in Korean and Bạch Hổ in Vietnamese. It represents the west and the autumn season.

During the Han Dynasty, people believed the tiger to be the king of all beasts. According to legend the tiger's tail would turn into white when it reached the age of 500 years. In this way, the white tiger became a kind of mythological creature. It was said that the white tiger would only appear when the emperor ruled with absolute virtue, or if there was peace throughout the world. Because the color white of the Chinese five elements also represents the west, the white tiger thus became a mythological guardian of the west.

Byakko, the White Tiger of the West. You represent the planet Venus, the season Autmn, the elements Metal and Wind, the gem, Diamond, and the body parts lungs and small intestine. Your main Celestial Warrior is Tatara. The White Tiger of the West, for instance, is associated with metal. When, therefore, metal is placed in a grave, a ceremonial connection with the tiger-god is effected. 'According to the Annals of Wu and Yueh, three days after the burial of the king, the essence of the element metal assumed the shape of a white tiger and crouched down on the top of the grave.' Here the tiger is a protector a preserver. ...As we have seen, white jade was used when the Tiger god of the West was worshipped; it is known as 'tiger jade'; a tiger was depicted on the jade symbol. To the Chinese the tiger was the king of all animals and 'lord of the mountains', and the tiger-jade ornament was specially reserved for commanders of armies. The male tiger was, among other things, the god of war, and in this capacity it not only assisted the armies of the emperors, but also fought the demons that threatened the dead in their graves.

Buruburu vaiduoklis

Buruburu yra vaiduoklis, atsiradęs iš žiauriai nužudyto žmogaus baimės. Jis klajoja po apylinkę ir skleidžia Vaiduoklišką Ligą. Apsikrėsti galima palietus nužudytojo lavoną arba turint kokių nors sąsajų su žudiku. Giminystės ar draugystės ryšys ypač pavojingas, nes vaiduoklis pirmiausia keršija žudikui ir jo artimiesiems.

Apsikrėtęs tokia liga žmogus pradeda jausti vis didėjančią baimę ir sapnuoti baisius košmarus. Ši baimė nesulaikomai auga, žmogų krečia drebulys, jis nuolat vemia, atsiranda haliucinacijos. Gyvenimas tampa neįmanomas ir galiausiai ligonis miršta nuo širdies atakos.

Išgydyti Vaiduoklių liga sergantį žmogų galima tik nužudžius patį vaiduoklį.

Ghost sickness is spread by a specific class of spirit known as the Buruburu. First, one must have physical contact with the ghost's body or the body of a ghost sickness victim. Second, one must share a specific personality trait with the original killer of the Buruburu. As a result, not everyone who comes into contact with a Buruburu or someone with ghost sickness is susceptible to the virus.

Ghost sickness first manifests as nightmares and subtle signs of irrational fear. The fear gets greater and greater as the illness progresses. Soon after the initial symptoms, wounds mirroring those the originating ghost received while alive appear on the victim without any apparent cause. As the ghost sickness progresses further, the victim feels queasiness that degenerates into vomiting. Toward the end stages, the vomiting degenerates further into vomiting blood. At the final climax of the illness, the victim will experience intense terror that will cause a fatal heart attack.

The cure for ghost sickness is to destroy the ghost who began spreading the virus.

Va va, visos tos populiarios kraupios merginos ilgais juodais plaukais iš "Skambučio" ir pan. yra buruburu.

Ivaki sama - samurajus su šarvais

Turėjau svajonę savo Ivu (73,5 cm Loong Soul vaikiną) aprengti tikrais samurajaus šarvais!

Ta proga nusipirkau eBay Vintage Japanese Samurai Yoroi Armor with Box. Šie šarvai paprastai yra1:3 (ar 1:4) skalės ir naudojami kaip kambario puošmena Berniukų pagerbimo šventės metu. Tikra sumažinta autentiškų šarvų kopija. Made in Japan completely.

Jau spėjau juos pademonstruoti merginoms, kurios svečiavosi pas mane praeitą kimono workshopą. Ir spėjau visoms paverkti ant peties, kad šarvai lėlei netinka, per dideli. Dabar reikės juos parduoti, nes tokios cackos dulkėms rinkti man nereikia. Nors atrodo jie stulbinančiai - tikri japoniški, padaryti su didžiausiu tikslumu ir išpuošti kuo prabangiausiai - bet jei netinka mano kilmingajam Ivu/Ivaki sama, tai man jų visai nereikia. Ir visi mane suprato, ir pritariamai linkčiojo, ir guodė mane. Šniurkšt. Dėkui, merginos.

Tai va. Prieš galutinai atsisveikindama su šarvais ir prieš išstatydama į eBay pardavimui, nutariau jais paskutinį kartą pasidžiaugti ir su lėle palyginti. Atsinešiau Ivu, viską išstačiau ant stalo. Pradėjau dėlioti, matuoti, taikyti.

Na, kokia durna mano galva buvo. Kur mano protas buvo pasidėjęs? Kodėl aš anksčiau šito nepadariau? Ir kaip gerai, kad aš vis dėlto tai padariau!

Taigi tinka tie šarvai kuo puikiausiai!!!!! IDEALIAI!!!!! Šalmas ir veido kaukė užsideda kaip tik. Geriau ir būti negali. Visi detalių ilgiai - ir rankovės ilgis, ir talijos vieta, ir pačio šarvo ilgis - tinka kuo puikiausiai. Sutinku, kad krūtinės dalis per plati. Tai ir sudarė įspūdį, kad šarvai gerokai per dideli. Betgi šitai galima pataisyti! Juk man nereikia tų šarvų išsaugoti ir nieko nekeisti. Man reikia juos Ivu samai pritaikyti. Ir tai galima padaryti!

Nežiūrint savo "virš 50" klykavau ir šokinėjau po kambarį. Iš džiaugsmo. Ivaki sama bus! Samurajus su šarvais bus!

Na, liko tik mažas klausimas - o kokiu gi ONI bus mano samurajus su šarvais?
Yra pasiūlymų?

Tai va. Noriu su jumis savo džiaugsmu pasidalinti.

Akashita - raudonasis liežuvis

Juodas debesis-monstras AKASHITA su ilgu raudonu liežuviu, manau, tiktų panaudoti backgrounde, danguje, toje vietoje kur šviesus dangus pereina į tamsų.

An Akashita (赤舌^?, lit. "red tongue") is a yōkai that appeared in Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yakō. It is drawn as a beast with clawed hands and a hairy face, with most of its body hidden in a black cloud over a floodgate. In its open mouth is a large tongue. Sekien did not attach an explanatory note, so it is not certain whether he intended it as an original creation, but it may be related to the shakuzetsujin (赤舌神^?, lit. "red-tongued god") which guards the western gate of Jupiter. It may also be related to the shakuzetsunichi (赤舌日^?), a day of bad luck in Onmyōdō.

 

Akateko - vaikas raudonomis rankomis

Medis su kabančiomis kruvinomis vaikų rankomis! Brrr.... kaip kraupu. Bet sutikite, labai įspūdingas elementas mūsų Tamsiosios Pusės backgroundui.

Gal kas apsiimtų nulipdyti tas rankas? Visai nebūtinai vaikiškas. Padarysime baisų juodą medį ir papuošime jį rankomis. SIAUBAS.


An akateko (赤手児, lit. "red handed child") is a yōkai, or Japanese monster, from the folklore of Aomori prefecture, specifically in the city of Hachinohe. It appeared as an infant's hand hanging down from a tree.

Bakeneko - katinas monstras

Populiarus personažas. Ir nebūtinai blogas. Letenėle mojanti katytė neša laimę ir turtus.

Bakeneko (化け猫^?, "monster-cat"), in Japanese folklore, refers to cat yōkai (spiritual beings) with supernatural abilities akin to those of the kitsune (fox) or tanuki (raccoon dog). There are a number of superstitions that detail how ordinary cat may transform into a bakeneko. Bakeneko then haunt and menace their household.

A bakeneko with a forked tail is referred to as a nekomata (猫又^?, or 猫股 "forked-cat"). The popular good luck totem, the Maneki Neko(招き猫^?, "Beckoning Cat") found in shop fronts, is also a type of bakeneko.

According to Japanese folklore, a cat may become a bakeneko by meeting any of the following three conditions:^[1]

• living over 10 years of age
• reaching one kan (3.75 kg or 8.25 lbs) in weight
• growing its tail too long, which, according to myth, may fork into two. This particular kind of bakeneko is referred to as a nekomata.

The latter superstition about tail-length possibly led some Japanese people to cut the tails off of cats to prevent their transformation into bakeneko. It may also have some connection to the breeding of short-tailed breeds like the Japanese Bobtail.

Once transformed, bakeneko gain a range of paranormal powers used to haunt the household they live in. These powers include:

• menacing (even eating) sleeping humans
• walking on its hind legs
• flying
• talking
• creating ghostly fireballs
• reanimating and controlling a fresh corpse by leaping over it
• shapeshifting into human form

They may use their shapeshifting powers to live a life as a human would normally, sometimes by taking the place of a member of the household after killing and consuming them in their sleep. They may take the form of a person they intend to kill or harm. Other stories tell about how a bakeneko may sometimes shapeshift into a beautiful girl, so that their owner would be able to marry them and have children.^{[citation needed]}

Bakeneko also have the ability to eat anything in their way, regardless of size or edibility, including humans. Their main food is poison, particularly from a certain snake unknown to humankind.

Not all bakeneko are bad; in some stories they are faithful and good-hearted to their owners. Three stories in particular tie benevolent bakeneko to the legend of the famous maneki neko.

One such story is about a bakeneko named Tama. Tama's owner was a very poor priest who lived in a rundown temple in Setagaya, west of Tokyo. The priest would tell Tama, "I'm keeping you in spite of my poverty, so couldn't you do something for this temple?" One day the daimyo of the Hikone district, Ii Naotaka, was standing under a tree to avoid the rain. Naotaka became aware of a cat beckoning him to a temple gate. As he began to walk the tree was struck by lightning^{[citation needed]}. Afterwards, Naotaka became friends with the temple priest, and donated lots of money to have the run-down temple rebuilt. When Tama died, the priest built a grave for the cat; eventually, a shrine was built within the temple grounds dedicated to the "beckoning cat". Gotokuji temple still stands today; the nearby Gōtokuji Station on the Odakyu Line was named after it.

Tiesiog negalima nepaminėti nuostabaus personažo Kusuriuri iš 

ayakashi episode 9 (Bakeneko episode 1)

Baku - košmarų rijikas

Sapnų ir košmarų rijikas Baku. Paprastai vaizduojamas kaip visai mielas gyvūnėlis ilgu ilgu snukiu (ar straubliu?) Jo atvaizdais dažnai puošiamos rūmų ar šventyklų kolonos, laikančios stogo kraigą.

Pagalvojau, jog galima būtų sukurti kepurę (ne veidą dengiančią kaukę, o kepurę) su ilgu ilgu snapeliu, kurį dekoruoti kaip šito rijiko nasrus. Lėlę aprengti ryškiu spalvotu kimono, išpuošti visaip - va jums ir Baku!

Baku (獏 or 貘^?) are Japanese supernatural beings that devour dreams and nightmares. They have a long history in Japanese folklore and art, and more recently have appeared in Japanese anime and manga (see examples cited below).

The traditional Japanese nightmare-devouring baku originates in Chinese folklore and was familiar in Japan as early as the Muromachi period (14th-15th century).^[2] Hori Tadao has described the dream-eating abilities attributed to the traditional baku and relates them to other preventatives against nightmare such as amulets. Kaii-Yōkai Denshō Database, citing a 1957 paper, and Mizuki also describe the dream-devouring capacities of the traditional baku.^[3]

An early 17th-century Japanese manuscript, the Sankai Ibutsu (山海異物), describes the baku as a shy, Chinese mythical chimera with an elephant’s trunk, rhinoceros eyes, an oxtail, and tiger paws, which protected against pestilence and evil, although eating nightmares was not included among its abilities.^[1] However, in a 1791 Japanese wood-block illustration, a specifically dream-destroying baku is depicted with an elephant’s head, tusks, and trunk, with horns and tiger’s claws.^[4] The elephant’s head, trunk, and tusks are characteristic of baku portrayed in classical era (pre-Meiji) Japanese wood-block prints (see illustration) and in shrine, temple, and netsuke carvings.^[5][6][7][8] Writing in the Meiji era, Lafcadio Hearn (1902) described a baku with very similar attributes that was also able to devour nightmares.

Tengu - Haru

Namahage - demonas baudėjas

Idėja kostiumui arba kaukei.

Namahage - ritualinis baudžiantis demonas.
Kiti to paties veikėjo vardai - Amahage, Amamehagi, Appossha, Amaburakosagi, Akamata-Kuromata(ja), Suneka, Toshidon(ja), Yamahage, Nagomehagi.

Namahage (生剥^?)^[1] a ritual-disciplinary demon, in traditional Japanese folklore is a demonlike being, portrayed by men wearing oversized ogre masks and traditional straw capes (mino^(ja)) during a New Year's ritual.

The frightfully dressed men, armed with deba knives (albeit wooden fakes^[3] or made of papier-mâché) and toting a teoke (手桶"hand pail" made of wood^?),^[2] marching in pairs or threes going door-to-door making rounds of peoples' homes, admonishing children who may be guilty of laziness or bad behavior,^[2] yelling phrases like "Are there any crybabies around?" (泣く子はいねがぁnakugo wa inēgā?^?)^[5] or "Are naughty kids around?" (悪い子はいねえか waruigo wa inēka?^?) in the pronunciation and accent of the local dialect.

The namahage visits are nowadays practiced on New Year's Eve^[6] (using the Western calendar). But it used to be practiced on the so-called "Little New Year" (小正月Koshōgatsu^?),^[3] the first full moon night of the year. This is 15th day of the first lunar calendrical year, which is not the same thing as January 15^[7] as it usually falls around mid-February, exactly two weeks after the Chinese New Year (Japanese: Kyūshogatsu).

A legend has developed regarding the origins of namahage, that Emperor Wu of Han (d. 87 BC) from China came to Japan bringing five demonic ogres to the Oga area, and the ogres established quarters in the two local high peaks, Honzan (本山^?) and Shinzan (真山^?). These oni, as they are most commonly called in Japan, stole crops and young women from Oga's villages.^[6][11]

The citizens of Oga wagered the demons that if they could build a flight of stone steps, one thousand steps in all, from the village to the five shrine halls^[5] (variant: from the sea shore to the top of Mt. Shinzan^[11]) all in one night, then the villagers will supply them with a young woman every year.^[11] But if they failed the task they would have to leave. But just as the ogres were about to complete the work, a villager mimicked the cry of a rooster, and the ogres departed, believing they had failed.

Tsukumogami - įvairiausių daiktų dvasios

Tsukumogami - "daiktų dievai"  - žinomi Japonijos folklore nuo 10 amžiaus. Buvo tikima, kad namų apyvokos daiktai, visokie rakandai, įrankiai, dėžutės, muzikos instrumentai, atitarnavę žmogaus namuose 100 metų , įgyja sielą. Tuomet jie pradeda judėti, kalbėti ir gyventi kaip žmonės. Netgi meldžiasi Dievams.

Paprastai Tsukumogami išlieka draugiški ir lojalūs namų šeimininkams, bet gali ir supykti. Nuskriausti ir įskaudinti daiktai organizuojasi į gaujas ir krečia išdaigas tiems, kas negražiai su jais elgėsi ar išmetė lauk. Kad išvengti galimo daiktų keršto, iki šių dienų Shinto šventyklose atliekamos tam tikros apeigos, kurių metu stengiamąsi nuraminti senus sulaužytus daiktus.

A type of Japanese yōkai, the Tsukumogami (付喪神 “Kami of tool”) was a concept popular in Japanese folklore as far back as the tenth century, used in the spread of Shingon Buddhism. Today, the term is generally understood to be applied to virtually any object, “that has reached their 100th birthday and thus become alive and self-aware, though this definition is not without its controversy.

Tsukumogami are animate household objects. An otogizōshi (“companion tale”) titled Tsukumogami ki (“Record of tool kami”; Muromachi period) explains that after a service life of nearly one hundred years, utsuwamono or kibutsu (containers, tools, and instruments) receive souls. While many references are made to this work as a major source for the definition of tsukumogami, insufficient attention has been paid to the actual text of Tsukumogami ki.

Known Tsukumogami

• Abumi-guchi - A furry creature formed from the stirrup of a mounted military commander that works for Yama Orochi.
• Bakezōri - A possessed pair of straw zori sandals.
• Biwabokuboku - An animated Biwa.
• Boroboro-ton - A possessed comforter.
• Chōchinobake - An animated lantern, also known as Burabura.
• Ichiren-bozu - Animated prayer beads.
• Ittan-momen - A roll of cotton.
• Jotai - Possessed cloths draped from folding screens.
• Kameosa - A possessed sake jar.
• Kasa-obake - An animated umbrella. Also known as Hone Karakasa
• Kosode-no-te - A possessed kimono robe.
• Kurayarō - Animated saddle
• Kyōrinrin - Possessed scrolls or papers.
• Minowaraji- An animated Mino straw coat
• Morinji-no-okama - A possessed tea kettle. Another variation is Zenfushō
• Shamichoro - An animated shamisen
• Shirōneri - Possessed mosquito nettings or dust clothes.
• Shōgorō - An animated gong
• Ungaikyo - A possessed mirror.
• Yamaoroshi - A possessed grater.
• Zorigami - A possessed clock.