Gashadokuro - Japanese Yokai folktale ; Concept sculpt.

May 12th, 1630
All of a sudden, 50ft tall Gashadokuro appeared at local shrine during night ceremony.The entire city destroyed within hours.
Shinto priests believed that Gashadokuro created from the unburied bones of soldiers who died at Tokugawa period.
Gashadokuro also possessed invisibility which makes it indestructible.

concept based on Utagawa Kuniyoshi woodblock painting "Souma no furudairi (相馬の古内裏)"

Henceforth, the old spirit is no longer considered a folk tale.

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