Ayahatori Shoukanjou ASUKA Jul 2010 Poster (side 2)

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Scanned with HP Deskjet F2410.

Retouched using Windows Live Photo Gallery (2010). It's a 2-fold poster & I had to scan 4 parts of the poster, join them together in Microsoft Paint & retouch not just the fold lines, but also the areas where the colours weren't consistent after the poster was scanned in 4 different parts. I don't have any other image editing programs since I usually don't use them anyway and Photoshop's expensive. It's my 1st time retouching a scan, so some mistakes may show. I hope the overall result is satisfactory. So sorry.

Characters: Yatsufusa (八房), Ono no Komachi (小野小町), Sakuranomiya Asaki (桜宮旭葵) & Sakurazuki Tatsuma (桜月龍真)

Yatsufusa (kanji means "eight rooms") is, I think, a dog familiar or spirit. He sometimes changes into a dog & his dog ears occasionally pop out for the sake of cuteness. If I'm not wrong, he may be an adaptation of a dog warrior(?) in the 106 vol novel series "Nanso Satomi Hakkenden" by Kyokutei Bakin which was published from 1814 to 1842.

Tatsuma in kanji means "dragon truth".

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