#dorotabo

[daily-yokai]

Day 14: Mudmunch

[ughnoya]

日下 夏羽 = Dorotabo ⤵

:; # Kemono Jihen ⇄ 「 危険！」

[hazard100]

Alice’s Note:

A fellow dream walker named Aoto said that they call abstracts yokai, saying that Shinto priests were ancient dream walkers and their version of Wonderland is called the Spirit Realm. It seems like the mental beings in Japan have a habit of 'possessing' a lot of people, and it was the priest's job to exorcise these youkai from them and keep the peace between the two realms. I can see why some people might think the M.R.U.U. was some kind of afterlife…

[pfpanimes]

⌕ kemono jihen - kabane kusaka.

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[lpbestiary]

The Dorotabō is a yōkai from Japanese folklore. It is the ghost of a rice farmer who worked hard in the fields in life only to have their crops neglected after their deaths.

The Dorotabō appears as a three-fingered, one-eyed zombie-like figure that rises from the mud at night to seek vengeance on those who let their fields go to ruin.

Image source.

Monster master list.

Suggest a spook.

[kalmeria]

Kusaka Kabane  ||  Kemono Jihen ep.01

✨you can use these as icons if you want

[dragonkeeper19600]

After Jissonji is killed in the Nue arc, the monstrous, goopy form he adopts looks a lot like a kind of yokai called a “dorotabō.” Literally translated as “muddy rice field monk,” dorotabō are mud-covered ghosts that haunt neglected rice fields. 

Jissonji post-transformation doesn’t have all the traits of a typical dorotabō. Dorotabō, for example, traditionally have three fingers on each hand and are said to be the restless ghosts of farmers who see their beloved fields neglected after their deaths. Jissonji still has all his fingers (I counted them) and isn’t really associated with rice fields or farming. However, Mononoke has kind of a lax attitude when it comes to depicting yokai. Most likely, Jissonji transformation is meant to be some kind of joke relating to his bald head. Many yokai that have nothing to do with the clergy are referred to as monks because of their bald-headed appearance, presumably reminiscent of a monk’s shaved head. The umi bozu (“sea monk”) is another example of this naming scheme.

[studiovlinderdas]

🌾Doromer - Farmer Pokemon🌾 Ground/ Ghost Doromer are grumpy Pokemon, that can be found near rice fields. They aren't very common, due to this and their ghostly appearances most trainers brush them of to be folktales.