#yookai

By now it’s already been funded (woah!) but there’s still time to pitch in :D

I was tagged by Djemei to this thing where you have to choose 10 favourite characters from different fandoms so I decided to draw them.

So this is Sesshômaru from a manga/anime called Inuyasha. Inuyasha was one of the first mangas I ever bought, 

Character belons to Rumiko Takahashi 

Cleaned up these cats~

Temari uses the technique named "Ookamaitachi" (Scythe weasel). A scythe is a large sickle. A sickle weasel (窮奇; 鎌鼬, kamaitachi) is a creature from Japanese mythology, said to ride on gusts of wind, cutting people with his sharp, sickle-like claws. Temari's summon, Kamatari, is a sickle weasel.  Temari uses her giant fan to create a more powerful and larger-scale version of her Great Sickle Weasel Technique. She releases heavy air currents that collide together to create many vacuum pockets to slash her targets.  Kamaitachi (鎌鼬) is a Japanese yōkai, most common in the Kōshin'etsu region.

There are several conceptions of how it looked or operated, but the most common is one of a trio of weasels with sharp claws, riding on a gust of wind and cutting people's skin on the legs. According to this interpretation, the first weasel knocked the unsuspecting victim down, the second cut the victim's flesh and the third applied medication to the wounds, so that at the time the victim realised what was happening they were left only with painful wounds that weren't bleeding. Sometimes the three are described as brothers, sometimes as triplets. This account can be traced back to Toriyama Sekien, who was presumably also the first to imagine the apparition to have the form of a weasel. The weasel was a typical Toriyama pun - one of the folk names for the apparition was kamaetachi (構え太刀), meaning "attacking" which he changed slightly to mean "sickle weasel".