#bouten

[tanuki-kimono]

Yôkai monster portraits by Bouten (twitter / pixiv account), here are:

Kitsune bi (fox fires)

Karasu Tengu / Kotengu (crow Tengu / small Tengu)

Ittanmomen (cotton roll)

Kyoukotsu (bones in a well)

Kiyohime (Lady Kiyo, a snake woman)

Dodomeki (many eyes woman)

Kirin (Asian “unicorn”)

Nue (a kind a chimera)

Otoroshi (a kind of monster often perched on Torii gates)

Yamata no Orochi (eight-heads serpent)

[amare-habeo]

Armand Bouten (Dutch, 1893–1965) 

Dance, N/D

pencil and watercolour on paper, 28 x 17cm.

[jeroenapers]

Moeren en bouten kunnen ook mooi gebruikt worden als schaakstukken, zoals House of Staunton laat zien.

(via Design Father)