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Hi guys!, here goes an old pic based on japanese shapeshifting/trickster creatures, the Bakemono. Hope you like it :) (my bad, I been watching a lot of Totoro the last days)

Graphire/bamboo/7 to 8 hours/Music:Inverse Rainbow - Akino Arai (lodoss tv ending)
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Obake (お化け) and bakemono (化け物) (sometimes obakemono) are a class of yokai, preternatural creatures in Japanese folklore. Literally, the terms mean a thing that changes, referring to a state of transformation or shapeshifting.

These words are often translated as ghost, but primarily they refer to living things or supernatural beings who have taken on a temporary transformation, and these bakemono are distinct from the spirits of the dead. However, as a secondary usage, the term obake can be a synonym for yūrei, the ghost of a deceased human being.

A bakemono's true form may be an animal such as a fox (kitsune), a raccoon dog (tanuki), a badger (mujina), a transforming cat (bakeneko), the spirit of a plant — such as a kodama, or an inanimate object which may possess a soul in Shinto and other animistic traditions. Obake derived from household objects are often called tsukumogami.

A bakemono usually either disguises itself as a human or appears in a strange or terrifying form such as a hitotsume-kozō, an ōnyūdō, or a noppera-bō. In common usage, any bizarre apparition can be referred to as a bakemono or an obake whether or not it is believed to have some other form, making the terms roughly synonymous with yokai.
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~Autumn-Gracy Apr 17, 2013  Professional Traditional Artist
For a second I didn't see the tanuki's legs as legs but as big hairy balls and the fact that Japanese mythology is so weird that that's actually a more accurate portrayal disconcerts me.
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~silverdragoncurly Feb 26, 2013
Love the cute little fox ears!:3
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~Secretevolution Sep 14, 2012  Hobbyist Artist
it's awesome
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~xSandra97 Aug 9, 2012
love it <3
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Mood: Love ~JulieJennings Jun 23, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Very lovely
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~Silverkitsune26 May 30, 2012
Wonderful. ^_^
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~Mlle-CherryFox Apr 14, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
very nice work ^__~
I added in my fav'
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~emcityturtle Mar 1, 2012
And now I want to watch Pom Poko!
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~Gargu Feb 19, 2012
A kitsune has 9 tails.
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*GENZOMAN Feb 19, 2012
not really, the kitsune of nine tails is a modern take of the myth. In the original myth the amount of tails indicate the age (and with that, the windsom/power) of each Kitsunes.

The one tail kitsune was usually a trickster of the roads and woods, pretty much a simple bakemono and not the near deity nine tail kitsune... so there is kitsunes of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 and up tails :)
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