#shishi

[dernooks]

Guardian

[cadaverki-dotcom]

Shishi- A term for a kodo who is dead or dead-adjacent, such as being undead or who appears to be dead.

This is the explicitly kodo version of shitai, a term for characters that look to be any age who are dead or dead-looking.

"Shishi" is another word for corpse in Japanese. I thought it would work as a cutsier version of shitai, and the sound repetition reminds me of Lily from Zombieland Saga, who is a zombie loli.

[artschoolglasses]

Rikishi in France 🇫🇷

[tanuki-kimono]

Celebratory outfit perfect for New Year season, featuring an antique kimono depicting shishi (lions) on a bridge - maybe a reference to auspicious play Shakkyô. The beautiful pines nicely frame the main motif, and the temari balls add some whimsy.

Kimono is paired with a romantic obi showing yuki-mochi (snow covered) gosho-guruma (ox cart) and late winter/early spring plants (ume/plum blossom, kiku/chrysanthemum, nandina/heavenly bamboo, suisen/daffodil).

[squeakheart]

i made this in like, jan or march and never posted it here? but it feels appropriate to let it out of the vault for the current basho

[sealwithakiss]

the jsa told me shishi keeps eating their promotees so i asked how many they have and they said they just go to juryo and get a new one next basho and i said it just sounds like they're feeding their prometees to shishi and chairman hakkaku started crying

[eloriah]

A little look on my new Kakashi’s art😘. This time, I’ve drawn a teen Kakashi, in his ANBU era and especially his emo phase.

[imseekingchaos]