Japanese Monsters Who’s Who. hanakodo tagged this with “Shoji Otomo,” a pioneer in the field of monster biology; “Eiji Tsuburaya,” a sci-fi special effects director whose work includes Godzilla; and “tokusatsu,” which, according to the wiki literally translates as “special effects.”

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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Spirit in the Waterfall, 1892. From the Thirty-six Ghosts series. 9.25” x 14.25”. The print depicts the nurse Otsuji praying to the god Kompira to save the life of a boy named Botaro.

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Koichi Sato covers one eye, possibly with the hand of the universe.

via but does it float?.

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Shiro Kasamatsu.

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Japan #2

March 14, 2011, Reuters/Kyodo News, via The Big Picture

This photograph has broken my heart.

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Takayuki Hori, Oritsunagumono, a collection of origami works made from transparencies of images of animal skeleton fragments or of litter often ingested by animals.

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