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Published: 2018-07-09 07:58:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 2754; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 20
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Miyuki froze, as she heard the familiar, distinctive thump of the butt of a naginata against stone. And not just any naginata, but a ghost naginata. The headless samurai horseman threw his lack of a head back and laughed a chilling, unearthly laugh that echoed throughout the haunted temple. Well maybe it was a laugh, it's hard to vocalize anything without a head, really.
Miyuki encounters the headless horseman, as per popular demand. The headless horseman is actually a common folktale throughout Europe, with many different local versions; the version most of us know nowadays from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow is supposed to be a Hessian artilleryman killed in the American Revolution. I don't know if anything comparable exists in Japan, but we have a theme going, artistic license, etc.
Updated with revised ghost lights.
Other versions with progressively less clothing, as is traditional:
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Haunted summer so far:
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Comments: 12
"Summer is not for sissies, my dear. Are you not one of them, hmmmm?"
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Oh no, she's gone looking for trouble, and if it finds her first, well, that's just an added convenience isn't it?
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I'm under the impression that the headless samurai has some secret stripping powers.
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Possibly not so secret... although don't discount Miyuki'd ability to lose her clothes on her own.
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Come on, it's Miyuki. She's synonymous with losing her clothes.
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Yup, it's on at least one version of her business card.
It is possible the headless horseman plays a long game where back in the 1600s he wrote a manuscript entitled How to Defeat the Headless Horseman, the essence of which is "Send your hottest lady warrior and she totally has to be naked, any kind of clothing is cheating." He then has this published (anonymously, of course) and widely distributed, so people naturally follow it's advice whenever there's headless horseman trouble. He then ogles some boobs and then fakes his own mysterious disappearance shortly afterward, so everyone assumes that did the trick.
It's a good plan, if you lack the skills to become a world class paranormal DJ.
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Yep, got to keep your skill tree active.
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Cool! A Headless Samurai is a concept I don't see much.
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I’m really digging on the Headless Samurai concept, whether or not Japan has a direct ‘Headless Samurai’ type story, they do have their long tradition of the Yurei-zu art of ghost and demons, often notable for their (at the time of course) extreme levels of gruesomeness and horrific imagery. (you might even say, Yurei-Zu was the Rio Comic of it’s day! Except you know, popular and they actually got finished. Also when ninja were involved I don’t think there was a lot of pranking going on.) the stories in some of these paintings is even extremely similar to the Headless Horsemen “I’m just gonna walk around at night by myself, I don’t care what local legend sa... AH! A G-g-g-g-g-ghost!!!” if the Headless Horsemen story had made it’s way to Japan in the 18th/19th century when Yurei-zu art was popular there would be no shortage of scrolls depicting his exact sort of thing.
If you want to root the picture in actual, factual Japanese myth... That could always be a super badass Shirime (the infamous ‘eye ball butt ghost’) since how else could it see without a head?
I’m also gonna say Headless Samurai is right up there with ‘Headless Motorcycle Man’ as a clever way to put a new twist on the story (of course Headless Motorcycle Man has gotten less new and clever over the years, but when it came out it must have been like “of course! what a genius idea!”)
Great job on this, Pengy!
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Thanks!
I'm always impressed by how imaginative Japanese ghosts are, like that one that's a cyclops parasol, or these guys:
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Also it's Sara and she's nude. heyyyyy
Or the hammerhead fellow in the back of this pic, who looks like he walked in on a haunting by accident because he thought he might have left his phone there:
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(When the Asian Art Museum had a Tsukioka Yoshitoshi exhibit years ago I bought the companion book too, this image is in it). But yeah, wikipedia articles on Yokai and friends are some of my favorite lunchtime reading.
Headless motorcycle guy is, I guess, the closest modern equivalent to the headless horseman. There are a lot of historical cavalrymen who could make a good HH, but after WW1 horse cavalry is really on the outs. I'd thought about the classic headless revolutionary war soldier with the jack-o-lantern head, but it felt a little too halloweeny for summer. Also, it didn't really tie into Miyuki being a ninja at all, this way she and the ghost are thematically linked (I usually try for that if I can, it doesn't always happen though).
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