Inspiration for Japanese customizations

[Timotheos]

Here are some great shots of Japanese drawings to not only provide inspiration for future customizers...

But to help dispel the fetish for ninjas pulling rickshaws...   

1) Lion dancer
2) mobster ("yakuza")
3) demon
4) hero

[Timotheos]

1-3) heroes
4) sea ghost

[Timotheos]

1) snow maiden ("yuki onna") [EDIT: Scratch that, I think it's just a woman in white]
2) maiden
3) maiden
4) hero

[Timotheos]

1) an oiwa, ghost that steals babies
2) a yurei, type of ghost in "the ring"
3) Okiku (a ghost from a legend, see below)

Copied from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancho_Sarayashiki
Okiku's story:
In the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki, Okiku is a maid at the mansion of the Japanese samurai Tessan Aoyama. The samurai wants to seduce the cute girl but she rejects his advances. Aoyama uses a trick. He hides one of ten valuable Dutch plates and threatens Okiku to make public that she had stolen the plate unless she agrees to become his mistress. In her desperation Okiku throws herself into the well and drowns.

Okiku's ghost comes out every night, counting from one to nine and then breaks out into a terrible howling and sobbing. Finally Aoyama goes insane by the daily apparitions at night.

[Customizer]

GREAT !!!!

thx for this very nice inspiration !!

 

world greets

Andi

[Timotheos]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_no_Yorimitsu

Raiko, or Yorimitsu Minamoto, was a Kyoto-era hero who killed, among other monsters, Tsuchigumo, the earth spider.

There is also a famous Kabuki show about him.

[Timotheos]

Here's the most famous picture of Raiko.  His four henchmen are drinking and playing Go while Raiko lies sick in bed.  The earth spider and his army of ogres invades.  The ogres try to distract the henchmen while the spider goes for Raiko, but Raiko wakes up and chops off the spiders arm.  They then chase the spider back to its den and kill it.

http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb6f59p350/

[Richard]

Hello, Timmy ... 

I am also enamored with the idea of a Playmobil Asian theme.

As you know, there are several members of GW-PC (like Specialist and Cheng) who have made some fairly good Asian customization attempts. Our own Knightmo, here at PF, has also created some very nice Asian customs. And, MacGayver has created some really beautiful Asian dioramas!

I'm sure that I've missed some. But, just those few that I've mentioned, certainly indicate that there is definitely some activity going on while the rest of us wait patiently for Playmobil to produce an Asian theme.

By the way, as you also know, Playmobil has given us three Asian Specials. They may not be historically correct, but in my humble opinion, they're also not that bad (especially as the basics for some customs).

But, please keep it up, Timmy!

The more noise that we ALL make, the better chance we have of finally seeing a Playmobil Asian Theme!

All the best,
Richard

[Timotheos]

Hi Richard

Somebody did a fantastic medieval Chinese scene, of a canal town like Suhang.  Does anyone remember who, or have a link? 

Cheng's Seven Samurai and his terra cotta warriors are amazing.

But as for PM's much-anticipated Asian theme, by "Asian" we mean "Japanese" or "Chinese"?  I'd think they'd have to pick one or the other, unless they just give us ninja and rickshaw soup.*

* Not an impossibility.  But, since the Egyptian theme turned out pretty not bad, I'm feeling more confident PM could produce something fun and interesting.

-Tim

[Richard]

Hello, Timmy ... 

Somebody did a fantastic medieval Chinese scene, of a canal town like Suhang.  Does anyone remember who, or have a link? 

Is this the place ?



If so, that's Michael MacGayver's fantastic WEBSITE !

All the best,
Richard