#yao bikuni

[thefluffmother]

Another page I've had up in places

There's at least 15+ pages done- but I'm trying to refrain from posting too much of what I have because I'm not 100% sure on what I wanna do with this project, or when I'll consider it finished.

[sundove88]

MerMay Resort Day 8- Mermadonna (Yo-Kai Watch)

Day 8 gives us Mermadonna, the evolution of Mermaidyn, who I drew last year!

Isn’t she absolutely gorgeous? Don’t worry, she gets a beachfront room!

I’m starting to think merfolk love their beachfront rooms.

Anyways, as with the upcoming weekend, I’m sure two certain Saiyans may have gotten the ocean’s blessing…

[kaibutsushidousha]

Once read on jp side that there was apparently a myth(?) that Douman might have been dad of Yaobikuno aka the nun that became immortal after eating mermaid's flesh. Is there any text stating about it?

I can only find paywalled papers about it, but gist of it is that Yao Bikuni's tale originated from wandering dance performances where father was a fisherman named Hata no Douman, which later got conflated with Ashiya Douman due to having the same given name.

[selkiehello]

Guess who really got into WWM and made a WWM Onmyoji au

[nightmaresyrup]

Oooho ho ho!

Why didn't I realize Priestess Yao/Corrupted Monk is based on Yaobikuni.

[finalbum]

[nanabansama]

Hi! so I was just wondering about Nene and Hanako! you know that Nene is a ningyo and the story says that her husband grew old and died and she lived a long life ! Do you think something like that can happen in the story? If Hanako can be human again and they get married or something like that !?

Hi! You must be talking about the story Yao Bikuni. Yes, in that story a girl eats the flesh of a ningyo (Japanese term for a half-human, half-fish creature) and becomes effectively immortal. She stays young and marries several men over the course of multiple centuries, but after seeing so many of her husbands and friends die she becomes a Buddhist monk. Then she travels the land helping others and planting camellia trees before eventually she perishes in a cave at 800 years old.

Some fun similarities to the story of TBHK are that a girl eats part of a mermaid, said girl lives EIGHT hundred years while Yashiro's last name infamously contains the kanji character for 8, and that the girl in the story is connected to the camellia, a commonly recurring flower in TBHK and one heavily associated with Hanako/Amane in particular. Indeed, when you examine all of this together, it's hard to imagine that AidaIro wasn't a bit inspired by this story.

To answer your question, I think it's possible that things could end up like you say. But just eating the flesh is what made the girl from Yao Bikuni immortal, while all eating a scale did for Nene was give her the ability to turn into a fish and bind her destiny to Hanako's. Optimistically we could take this to mean Nene will be saved from her premature death and that somehow, the Mermaid's Curse means that Hanako can't leave her and they get to live happily ever after...but considering the story of TBHK already contains several differences from Yao Bikuni, I wouldn't be surprised if things take a darker turn.

On the other hand, Yao Bikuni is still quite tragic since the girl has to watch all of her friends and family die while she stays forever young, not so dissimilar from a ghost...so maybe cursing Nene to such a fate is still somewhat dark in itself. Considering Hanako also ate the scale of a ningyo, though, maybe he would be her sole companion? That would be more bearable. :)

Thank you for the ask! I actually didn't know about this story beforehand and had fun picking it apart. Maybe you guys have other theories of what could happen based on the Yao Bikuni story?

[callmemerry00]

Some onmyoji with ponytails, anyone? ✨