shuten doji

Shuten-Doji, "little drunkard"

Shuten-Doji was not born an oni .there are many stories about how he came to be, but most of them say that he was originally a human boy who was born over a thousand years ago either in present-day Shiga or Toyama. his mother was a human woman and his father was the great dragon Yamata-no-Orochi. how he changes from boy to demon varies greatly from story to story, but the one popular version goes like this: there was a young boy who was supernaturally strong and abnormally intelligent for his age. everyone around him constantly called him a demon child due to his incredible strength and wit, and he gradually became terribly anti-social and resentful of others. at age six, even his own mother abandoned him. Orphaned, he became an apprentice priest at Mt. Hiei in Kyoto. naturally, he was the strongest and smartest of the young acolytes, and he grew resentful of them as well. he slacked off on his studies as a result and got into fights. he also fell into drinking, which was forbidden to monks; however, he could out-drink anyone and everyone who was willing to sit down and drink against him. because of his fondness for alcohol, he became known as Shuten-Doji, "the little drunkard"

some of the supplies : -100x 100 cm canvas -acrylic painting -mix media