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Ayakashi ~ あやかし ~ via Dogmeat Random obakemono.com Posterous Possum Poster Project: Yōkai

Common in the Sea of Japan, the ayakashi
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Ayakashi
あやかし
Strange Sea Serpent
other names: Ikuchi

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is an enormous eel-like creature, not very big around but said to be several thousand meters in length. It sometimes will travel straight over a small boat in an arc, and it is so long that it takes two or three days to finish. In the meantime the men aboard the boat are thoroughly occupied, bailing out the abundant sheets of oil that spill from the ayakashi's body.1

1. Mizuki vol. 1 2003, p. 13

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Keywords: yokai, youkai, obake, bakemono, Ayakasi

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