Chinese folklore characters

Ghosts and the disquieted dead abound in China and, as elsewhere, these manifold specters hold up a dark mirror to society as a whole. Chinese folklore features hungry ghosts, hanged ghosts, sexua…

Not really nihonga at all. I Just dig this guy's tight, flowing lines.

The image of characters in Chinese mythology, by Xu Beihong, Nuwa, perfect body - shape, full - length portrait, symmetrical face, celestial being, The full-length portrayal of a character from Chinese mythology features the upper body of a dignified and beautiful Chinese woman, with jet-black hair and a delicate face. The lower body takes the form of a snake, complete with a snake's tail, A divine radiance flows around her, 32k --ar 3:4 --v 5

Yōkai are a class of supernatural monsters, spirits and demons in Japanese folklore. The word yōkai is made up of the kanji for "bewitching; attractive; calamity;" and "spectre; apparition; mystery; suspicious". Yōkai range diversely from the malevolent to the mischievous, or occasionally bring good fortune to those who encounter them. Often they possess animal features (such as the Kappa, which is similar to a turtle, or the Tengu which has wings), other times they can appear mostly human…

Here's my version of a Jiangshi, the famous hopping vampire-zombies from Chinese folklore, which are sometimes controlled by master taoists ! If the writings on the paper talisman mean nothing, I apologize... I really tried.

Benzaiten- japanese folklore: the fifth of thr seven lucky gods. she was the goddess of everything that flows: water, words, speech, eloquence, music and by extension, knowledge. She was also a protective deity of the state and people. She was associated with comets.

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