yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/7932506... My new blog article, "Tribulations of a “tomboy goddess”, or why you should care about Anat" is out. It's not strictly speaking a Megaten article but I cover Megaten in it because Anat has no other notable modern adaptations for some reason.

#thshipweek – stars + ambition #touhou

#thshipweek day 1 (stars, ariyui) I saw another dream; or was it a dream within a dream?

Finally got around to writing about the new characters in Fossilzed Wonders with this two-parter. #東方Project #東方錦上京 just9art.tumblr.com/post/7927975...

touhou 20 spoilers // 錦上京ネタバレ注意 help! my wife and I just reunited after 1000 years but she felt so comfortable that she fell asleep right away

touhou 20 spoilers // 錦上京ネタバレ注意 and yet you yourself, I'm not sure why, but I still can't remember you

🛩️Yanmega + Yanma💚 #Pokemon #CopicMarkers

was not expecting possible koga saburo rep in touhou 20, but i'm all for it

A relatively short tumblr post on the subject of Bishamonten in Touhou. just9art.tumblr.com/post/7915208...

Visitor from the Land Hidden by Gods and Immortals - 神仙の隠れたる国の客 但馬 菓（たじまのこのみ） Tajima no Konomi Species: Ancestral God of Candy - 菓祖神 Ability: Capable of crossing countless waves and fording distant rivers - 万里の波を踏み、遙かに弱水を度る程度の能力 A Touhou OC I made for a contest, based on Tajimamori. #東方Project

Shou Toramaru #東方Project

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today! This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures! I was commissioned to bring it to life #paleoart

Okina Matara: Grandma Edition Can you spot all of the fun tidbits? #touhou #okinamatara #collage

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/786275029505... The long awaited Gilgamesh article is finally up. 16k+ words, complete with sections of every major period in Gilgamesh's history, sub-sections on other characters, and more!

paradise, paradise

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingu can you believe it took 21 years for this to be brought to an acceptable level. Given that Qingu is, if anything, overrepresented in scholarship given his incredibly limited relevance this is just hard for me to process.

Written up a post on tumblr covering the inspirations behind the Touhou 20 demo characters, alongside some of my own speculations. #東方Project #東方錦上京 www.tumblr.com/just9art/782...

chimi

Betting right now that the incident ties into Mount Minakami (皆神山, which is notably located within Nagano).

Ubame Chirizuka also seems to be themed around the Chiridzuka-kaiō (塵塚怪王) which was envisioned by Toriyama Sekien as a king of the Yamanba, hence her name and backstory.

I love that the crest of Nareko's head seems to be a reference to the paired figures depicted on dosojin statues

Last second character prediction for Fossilized Wonders: Living Fossil from the Age of the Gods - 神代の生きた化石 Kamui Mukawa (鵡川 冠依, Mukawa Kamui) Based on Kamuysaurus, a hadrosaurid dinosaur known from the Hakobuchi Formation of Hokkaido, Japan, named after the Kamuy of Ainu belief. #東方Project #東方錦上京

A loooooooong overdue overhaul of the Yamata no Orochi Wikipedia page, by yours truly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamata_...

A redesign of Okina Matara, inspired by Japanese depictions of Mahakala. #東方Project

Iguanodon, my favorite dinosaur. #paleoart

Urumi Ushizaki, plus a Dunkleosteus. #東方Project

Yue Lunong, a Touhou OC belonging to @kaliistic.bsky.social.

The terrible claw, Deinonychus. #paleoart

Kanako Yasaka and Eika Ebisu. Based on the fact that the gods Takeminakata (who is the basis for Kanako) and Kotoshironushi (who is identified with Ebisu, the basis for Eika) are brothers. #東方Project

Aya Shameimaru #東方Project

Dimetrodon #paleoart

Yuuma Toutetsu #東方Project

Manticore

the shrine maiden above the lake

Yamata no Orochi

Finally given the wikipedia page for Hata no Kawakatsu a major and much needed update. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hata_no...

Sagume's ability, essentially causing her to jinx any events she talkes about, serves as a fun reflection of Ame-no-Sagume's appearance in the Nihon Shoki. Whereby her attempt to warn Ame-no-Wakahiko ultimately wound up getting him killed in ironic fashion.

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/7778480... The promised article about lesbian spells from the magical papyri and related sources is up! As a fair warning, it includes discussion of historical homophobia, as well as one nsfw image and a substantial amount of nsfw text.

The Touhou Wiki notes how Yuuma’s name references Chiyou, the deified rebel and inventor of the five weapons who was defeated by the Yellow Emperor in the Battle of Zhuolu, as the kanji 尤 is likely taken from Chiyou/Shiyū (蚩尤). However the specifics of this association are rarely elaborated on...

The familial relation between Eika and Keiki isn't particularly obscure, but it feels noteworthy that there's a version of Kagutsuchi's birth in the Nihon Shoki that places his marriage to Haniyama-hime (aka Haniyasu-hime) immediately after the birth of Hiruko.

Pet theory of mine, but I wonder if the inclusion of Mamizou in Ten Desires was inspired by the mention of a Mujina during the reign of Empress Suiko (who Prince Shōtoku served under). Notably, Tanuki were also called Mujina in Sado, and Danzaburo was even referred to as Danzaburō-Mujina (団三郎狢)...

Don't think I've seen anyone bring up the concept of Muenjo (無縁所; literally "place of the unconnected") in discussions of Unconnected Marketeers, despite it seeming pretty central to UM and Chimata. I've also seen the term translated as "asylum", which is likely referenced by Chimata's last spell.

I wonder if one of the reasons that ZUN decided to give Nue an association with UFO's comes from the Heike Monogatari itself. After being slain, the creature's corpse was sent off in a "hollow ship" (うつろ舟, utsuro-bune), a term referring to a craft made from a single hollowed out log...

Armaldo #pokemon #copicmarkers

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/7763975... An unplanned article dealing with two particularly unique cases of assigning new names to Hecate, and with a number of other phenomena related to her, including her identification as an angel, the shift from three bodies to four, and more!

Kutaka Niwatari #touhou #東方Project #KutakaNiwatari #collage

saturday morning cartoon villains ┆ ◦•≫ #東方Project #日白残無 #豫母都日狭美 #art

yamayuandadu.tumblr.com/post/7721357... After 8(!) months, the promised Kuzunoha article is ready! With bonus coverage of Dōman, Kamo no Yasunori's daughter, fictional portrayals of Seimei's wife, assorted immortal sages, Kibi no Makibi, Abe no Nakamaro, and more!