#benten-sama

[love1kimono]

The Seven Lucky Gods 1905

A vintage Japanese New Year card, showing a geisha carrying a kagami mochi (mirror-shaped rice cake) topped with a bitter orange and lobster decoration. Looking toward six of the Shichifukujin (seven lucky gods), implying that she is Benten-sama, the goddess of beauty and music.

[andy-yuen]

Fan art of Benten from Uchouten Kazoku!! =)

i love how they draw backgrounds, so i also tried to make a BKG like theirs :)

[boring-mio]

benten-sama 

[mainlymangaiguess]

Benten throwing a tantrum?

[andy-yuen]

As always, here’s the without colour version :)

Colored version

[bigbooenergy]

so she's just horrible-ish to everybody because she's insecure...? I guess, it's just like. unless that's where the story goes from here (if there's another season or smt), we're never told much explicitly about her except that everyone's afraid of her and she Wants Things... idk. it just bothers me that like, she's sorta just there to move the plot along, with just enough hints there's more going on with her to not get totally stale as a character. maybe she really cares about people, but I feel like we just never really get there? but she still eats tanuki nabe so like. I still can't really like her : \

[arcaderoyal-blog]

I realized I was supposed to post this yesterday, but forgot to! The fanart sketch for Friday is another one of Benten - but she got a haircut! This is maybe a tad spoilery, but not badly so. I really liked the end of Eccentric Family S2, and the emotional payoff w/ Benten halfway through the episode just destroyed me. 

I actually streamed this sketch session, which was really fun and which I’d like to do more of! Also, this is a narrow clip from a larger piece of ard which I hope to finish at some point. I think I’m improving at things, though I can always get better. 

[floating-bridge-of-heaven]

A picture of my altar to Benzaiten/Saraswati with offerings of fresh nectarines and strawberries <3

Budai also likes to hang out here too