Ok so there's this thing going around that's attracting some attention, some photographer named Charles Fr?ger recently starting collecting photos of Japanese cultural costumes for use in festivals/matsuris and whatever else shinto/mytho stuff, releasing them in a collection called Yokainoshima (land of youkai, go figure). There's quite a few youkai costumes in it as well.
This one costume caught my eye though: pic
1, pic
2And I'm like, this kinda reminds me of doremy??
The caption, supposedly, that he put under it is: 富山県魚津市小川寺のビッチャル, and after briefly scanning around, noone in Japan knows what this youkai "bitcharu" is either, and the collection of this among other unique costumes and etc photos seem to be attracting some attention.
So I'm probably way off, but anyone know what this costume actually is from or is based off of? No references to anything called "bitcharu" I can find anywhere, so I don't even know if it's even supposed to be based on some actual youkai myth. If, however, on the small chance that ZUN did reference something as so absurdly obscure like this, that'd be pretty cool.
e: some relavent articles about Yokainoshima:
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2(the latter link, national geographic, doesn't seem to want to work for me, but someone might have better luck)