only 8, check the start of the tails around the kanji, i counted it like 10 times, bc it should be 9 but its still only 8
we can see 4, +1 behind the throne, but with the composition of the starts of the tails in the upper edge of the pic, there cannot be more then 3..

what if the ninth tail is the throne, or the one sitting in it?

-general stalker