Updated 28 Nov 2020 7.20am
Do you all know about the famous trending Amabie Challenge across the social media platforms since March 2020❓⁉️
Amabie is pronounced 🗣 as “Ah-mah-bee-ey”
SiennyLovesDrawing 👩🏻 got to know about this challenge when she was doing online window shopping 🌐🛒🛍 @ TOCOO Mall, Japan 🇯🇵 & curious 🤔 about a mug design, apparently it’s Amabie, refer more via 🌐 https://tocoo.com/let-s-overcome-together-hasami-ware-amabie-mug.html
The picture above is from Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 🇯🇵🌐 which published as an official awareness poster for preventing the spread of COVID-19 on its official website ~ Yes ✅, the official featured Amabie for the purpose of gaining more recognition from the young generations 😃
It said that by drawing ✍🏻 Amabie can protect from the global health pandemic ~ COVID19, many Japanese artists 🇯🇵👨🏻🎨👩🏻🎨 have started with this art challenge, do check out the hashtags #アマビエチャレンジ & #AMABIEchallenge 😁
What’s Yokai Amabie アマビエ❓⁉️
SiennyLovesDrawing 👩🏻 has learnt more about it via 🌐 https://tocoo.com/3-kinds-of-must-have-latte-12-piece-set.html
Amabie is a legendary Japanese spirit ~ A mermaid 🧜♀️ or merman 🧜♂️ creature with fishy scales, long hair, 3️⃣ fin-like legs & a beak emerged from the sea 🌊 ~ believed to predict either a good harvest or a pandemic
It is said that the youkai Amabie appeared in 1846 at the end of the Edo period (1603-1868), appeared in a shining figure from the sea 🌊 He said that he disappeared into the sea again, leaving behind the words 😉
Do read more via 🌐 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amabie
“If an epidemic occurs, draw a picture of me”
In Japan 🇯🇵 , people are turning to ancient spirits said to ward off epidemics to show support 💪🏻🙌🏻 against the Coronavirus. “If an epidemic occurs, draw a picture of me” ~ This is 1️⃣ of Japanese folklore with regard to a yokai (ie. Supernatural spirits/monsters in Japanese legend) called Amabie
Amabie is said to prophesize or ward against an epidemic. Now it has been spreading as a challenge from the idea of “Let’s draw ✍🏻 Amabie & share all together against Coronavirus‼️“
According to Google Trends, this mythical yokai resurfaced since early March 2020 & its popularity has spread to 5️⃣ continents with its #AMABIEchallenge hashtag
There are more than 🔟K of paintings, drawings & personalised depictions of Amabie on either Twitter/ Instagram, Japanese people 🇯🇵👫👭👬 actually begun to selling the face masks 😷 & hand sanitisers with Amabie’s image on them
SiennyLovesDrawing 👩🏻 has doodled ✍🏻 her own Amabie as shown in her blog banner here, why not all of us joining this illustration Amabie movement too❓⁉️
Let’s start to drawing/ doodling, then to uploading your Amabie illustrations with a prayer with aims to end this global health pandemic under the hashtags #アマビエチャレンジ & #AMABIEchallenge to participate together gather this Amabie Challenge across the globe 🌍ya 😃😁
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