Japanese whirlwind demon. I could not find the name of the artist but I am guessing that the red kanji is a signature. These invisible demons employ their sickle claws to do their thing. Pretty malevolent, if you ask me. If anybody has invisible flying bloodthirsty slasher weasels it would be the Japanese. This vicious fellow is by Xatchett off DeviantArt. https://www.deviantart.com/xatchett These yokai ride dustdevils and whirlwinds and slash up the unwary, while drawing no blood. In the 1890's there was a rash of these attacks. Some anime. https://youtu.be/sxC-g5sCWXk The whirlwind thing seems to be a big part of all this. Kamaitachi, by Eikoh Hosea, 1969. And another. This is the photographer who took the dynamic black and white pictures of Yukio Mishima I had posted in an earlier essay. The model in this series, Kamaitachi, is a famous avant-garde dancer, Tatsumi H
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