Rokurokubi

Rokurokubi  are yōkai found in Japanese folklore. 

They look like normal human beings by day, 

but at night they gain the ability to stretch their necks to great lengths. 

They can also change their faces to those of terrifying oni to better scare mortals.

In their daytime human forms, rokurokubi often live undetected and may even take mortal spouses. 

Many rokurokubi become so accustomed to such a life that they take 

great pains to keep their demonic forms secret. 

They are tricksters by nature, however, and the urge to frighten and spy on human beings is hard to resist.

 Some rokurokubi thus resort to revealing themselves only to drunkards, fools, 

the sleeping, or the blind in order to satisfy these urges. 

Other rokurokubi have no such compunctions and go about frightening mortals with abandon. 

A few, it is said, are not even aware of their true nature and consider themselves normal humans. 

This last group stretch their necks out while asleep in an involuntary action; upon waking up in the morning, 

they find they have weird dreams regarding seeing their surroundings in unnatural angles.

According to some tales, rokurokubi were once normal human beings 

but were transformed by karma for breaking various precepts of Buddhism. 

Often, these rokurokubi are truly sinister in nature, 

eating people or drinking their blood rather than merely frightening them. 

These demonic rokurokubi often have a favored prey,

 such as others who have broken Buddhist doctrine or human men.

YOKAI-DAISENSOU

Tōyama no Kin-san

Tōyama no Kin-san

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Tōyama no Kin-san is a popular character based on the historical Tōyama Kagemoto, 

a samurai and official of the Tokugawa Shogunate during the Edo Period of Japanese history. 

In kabuki and kōdan, he was celebrated under his childhood name, 

Kinshirō, shortened to Kin-san. He was said to have left home as a young man, 

and lived among the commoners, even having a tattoo of flowering sakura trees on his shoulder. This story developed into a legend of helping the common people.

The novelist Tatsurō Jinde  wrote a series of books about Kin-san. 

Noted actor Chiezō Kataoka starred in a series of eight Toei jidaigeki films about him. 

Several Japanese television networks have aired series based on the character. 

These variously portrayed him pretending to be a petty hood or a yojimbo while 

solving crimes as the chief of police.

People famous for having portrayed Kin-san on television include kabuki stars Nakamura Umenosuke IV and Ichikawa Danshirō, singers Yukio Hashi and Teruhiko Saigō, and actors Ryōtarō Sugi, Hideki Takahashi, Hiroki Matsukata, and Kōtarō Satomi. Saigō and Satomi portrayed Kin-san in the series Edo o Kiru.

Tōyama Kagemoto

Tōyama Kagemoto (September 27, 1793 – April 15, 1855) was a hatamoto and an official of the Tokugawa Shogunate during the Edo Period of Japanese history. His ancestry was of the Minamoto clan of Mino Province. His father, Kagemichi, was the magistrate of Nagasaki. Kagemoto held the posts of Finance Magistrate, North Magistrate, and subsequently the South Magistrate of Edo. (The magistrates of Edo acted as chiefs of the police and fire departments and as judges in criminal and civil matters.) As North Magistrate, his opposition to South Magistrate Torii Yōzō and Rōjū Mizuno Tadakuni won him popularity. In 1843, he was ousted from his position as North Magistrate through the machinations of Torii, and although nominally appointed Ōmetsuke, was out of power. Two years later, when Mizuno ousted Torii, Tōyama received an appointment as South Magistrate, a post once held by Ōoka Tadasuke.

Tōyama's rose to the Lower Junior Fifth rank with the name Tōyama Saemon no Jō.

In fiction

In kabuki and kōdan, he was celebrated under his childhood name of Kinshirō, or popularly, Tōyama no Kin-san. He was said to have left home as a young man, and lived among the commoners, even having a tattoo of flowering sakura trees on his shoulder. This story developed into a legend of helping the common people.

The novelist Tatsurō Jinde wrote a series of books about Kin-san. Noted actor Chiezō Kataoka starred in a series of eight Toei jidaigeki films about him. Several Japanese television networks have aired series based on the character. These variously portrayed him pretending to be a petty hood or a yojimbo while solving crimes as the chief of police.

ESHIMASA。

ESHIMASA。

Mr. ESHIMASA was born in Nagoya and began his career as a lowbrow air brush artist. 

He now lives in Yokohama. Over the years and through inspiration from Ukiyo-e, Rimpa, 

and Lowbrow Art, he has created works that fuse Western and

 Japanese themes combining "Wa," "Black & Gray," and "Oppai Devil."

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