About Shirime 尻目

Shirime (尻目, literally “buttocks eye”) is a bizarre yōkai known for having a single, gleaming eye where its anus should be. One legend tells of a samurai journeying to Kyoto who hears someone call out for him to stop. Turning around, he sees a man suddenly strip off his clothes and point his bare buttocks at him—revealing a shining eye in place of an anus.

Though its appearance is shocking, Shirime is not malevolent; it simply delights in startling unwary travelers. The haiku poet and artist Buson was so taken with this creature that he included it in several of his yōkai paintings.

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About Vinz Schwarzbauer

Vinz Schwarzbauer (*1987 in Graz, Austria) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2014. In 2011/12, he spent a year in Hamburg on the Art School Alliance Scholarship at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK). He was a co-founder of the magazine for narrative drawing "Franz the Lonely Austrionaut" and has illustrated for renowned media and theaters such as Falter, Jacobin Magazine, Der Standard, Burgtheater Wien, and Residenztheater München. His comic debut Mäander was published by Edition Moderne in 2023. Vinz Schwarzbauer lives and works as a comic artist and illustrator in Vienna, Austria.