Comments on: A-Yokai-A-Day: Shirime https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/12/a-yokai-a-day-shirime/ illustrations, folklore, and blog Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:19:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ella Bear https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/12/a-yokai-a-day-shirime/comment-page-1/#comment-49380 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:19:38 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=8941#comment-49380 yeah well this yokai is probably ushirome after all ushirome is only pictured from behind so theres fare chance that its facless from infront and since its pictured with clothes whose to say it secretly has a eye in its butt

]]> By: Yonaki baba | MatthewMeyer.net https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/12/a-yokai-a-day-shirime/comment-page-1/#comment-14178 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 01:57:36 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=8941#comment-14178 […] I was first attracted to this yokai because of the outrageously silly illustration of it as it appears in the Buson youkai emaki (incidentally this scroll also gave us the outrageously silly shirime). […]

]]> By: Matt https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/12/a-yokai-a-day-shirime/comment-page-1/#comment-9782 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:00:49 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=8941#comment-9782 In reply to Michael.

I’m sure its innate in all of us. Even little kids know deep down inside that poop is funny, and the Japanese of yesteryear seem to have tapped into that. Just look up the edo period scroll paintings of “he-gassen,” or “fart battles.”

]]> By: Michael https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/12/a-yokai-a-day-shirime/comment-page-1/#comment-9781 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:34:59 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=8941#comment-9781 I have to know: where the heck did Japanese toilet humor come from anyway?

]]> By: osarusan https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/12/a-yokai-a-day-shirime/comment-page-1/#comment-9780 Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:02:02 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=8941#comment-9780 That’s not a bad idea, though I hadn’t planned on it. Maybe it will be added to the book.

]]> By: Blue Satan https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/12/a-yokai-a-day-shirime/comment-page-1/#comment-9779 Sun, 13 Oct 2013 22:11:20 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=8941#comment-9779 I see…and speaking of the Katabira Crossroads, AKA Katabiragatsuji, will you do them on Meeting evil?

]]> By: osarusan https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/12/a-yokai-a-day-shirime/comment-page-1/#comment-9778 Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:59:35 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=8941#comment-9778 Hatahiro is a great yokai, and he is on my to-do list, but unfortunately he won’t make it into this year’s A-Yokai-A-Day.

The number of extra yokai depends on the final amount. Right now there is one stretch goal to add 5 more yokai, but I am planning to add two more, for a total of 15 extra yokai. It all depends on the response from backers though.

]]> By: Blue Satan https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/12/a-yokai-a-day-shirime/comment-page-1/#comment-9777 Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:54:08 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=8941#comment-9777 ….A ridiculous yokai indeed! I don’t like it much, though.
Also, there’s another Tsukumogami that I need you to do desperately: The Hatahiro.
Finally, I have one question: How many extra yokai will you put on The hour of meeting evil spirits depending of the amount obtained via Kickstarter?

]]> By: osarusan https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/12/a-yokai-a-day-shirime/comment-page-1/#comment-9776 Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:39 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=8941#comment-9776 I would file that under toilet humor as well, since there’s not really anything sexual in those acts.

]]> By: Michael https://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2013/10/12/a-yokai-a-day-shirime/comment-page-1/#comment-9774 Sun, 13 Oct 2013 04:09:13 +0000 http://matthewmeyer.net/?p=8941#comment-9774 What about tales of tanuki scrotums and kappa punching a fist up human anuses? Isn’t that a sort of sexual humor?

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