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    contemporary Japanese military actions in China. Gazu Hyakki Yagyō Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki Konjaku Hyakki Shūi Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro Nightmarchers Nurarihyon...
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  • Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (画図百鬼夜行, "The Illustrated Night Parade of a Hundred Demons" or The Illustrated Demon Horde's Night Parade) is the first book of Japanese...
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  • Past") is the second book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's famous Gazu Hyakki Yagyō tetralogy, published c. 1779. A version of the tetralogy translated...
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  • famous Gazu Hyakki Yagyō tetralogy. A version of the tetralogy translated and annotated in English was published in 2016. The title is a pun; "hyakki", normally...
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    sea snakes. Many Edo Period publications such as the Hyakkai Zukan, Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, among others, depict this yōkai as a woman with a snake body, which...
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    Amikiri (網(あみ)切(きり) or 網剪) is a Japanese yōkai depicted in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien. It is depicted as a cross between a serpent, bird...
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    geisha were once called "cats (neko)" Also shown at the right, the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō of 1776 (An'ei 5) depicts a cat with its head protruding from a shōji...
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    the meaning, but not the sound of the word. In Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, it is depicted as a spider woman manipulating small fire-breathing...
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    'filth-licker') is a Japanese yōkai depicted in Toriyama Sekien's 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, with its precursor or equivalent akaneburi (/垢ねぶり/垢舐(ねぶり)) documented...
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    one depiction of aobōzu found in Toriyama Sekien's e-hon tetralogy Gazu Hyakki Yagyō. Though the exact details of the aobōzu vary throughout legends, with...
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    ぬっぺっぽう) is a yōkai that appears in Edo Period yōkai emaki such as the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō and the Hyakkai Zukan. It is depicted with indistinguishable wrinkles...
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  • Japan. Konjaku Hyakki Shūi is preceded in the series by Gazu Hyakki Yagyō and Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki, and succeeded by Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro...
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    shapeshift into ōnyūdō and little monks. In the collection of depictions Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama, they were depicted under the title 鼬, but they...
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    The ouni (苧うに) is a yōkai depicted in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien. It is a yōkai with a face like that of a demon woman (kijo) torn from...
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    and illustrated in Takehara Shunsen's Ehon Hyaku Monogatari and the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō. Basan has an appearance similar to a chicken the size of a turkey...
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    the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi. They are also depicted in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien. They are depicted as an animated corpse with darkened...
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    and Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, they go under the name of "otoroshi," while in the "Bakemonozukushi," they are called "odoro odoro," while in the Hyakki Yagyō Emaki...
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    rock-like object. Fūri (風狸, lit "wind beast") The fūri can be seen in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, the Wakan Sansai Zue, and the Bencao Gangmu, with statements like...
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    that appears in Japanese classical yōkai pictures such as in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama, the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi, and the Bakemonozukushi...
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    "tall woman") was a Japanese yōkai that appeared in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien. The Gazu (illustrated reference) above depicts a woman with an...
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    used with a meaning similar to noppera-bō but as an adjective. The Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien depicts a nurarihyon hanging down from a kago....
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    personification of a kiinushii. In the collection of yōkai depictions, the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien, under the title 木魅 ("kodama"), an aged man and...
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    how they look. In the Edo Period collection of yōkai pictures, the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, they are depicted as a miniature Niō. Besides being seen as a yōkai...
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    explanatory text in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō so there are no details that can be known from it. In the yōkai emaki, the Tenpō period Hyakki Yagyō Emaki of the Matsui...
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    Japanese emaki such as the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi and the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (1776) by Sekien Toriyama. In the Hyakkai Zukan (1737, Sawaki Suushi)...
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    the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien. The illustration does not give any explanatory text, but according to Toriyama Sekien Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, (editor-in-chief...
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    (骨(ほね)女(おんな), literally: bone woman) is a yōkai depicted in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki (1779) by Toriyama Sekien. As its name implies, it depicts this yōkai...
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    invented yōkai that were created through puns or word plays; the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien is one example. When the Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai...
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    sword"), but like the kyūki in the "Yin" part of Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, they were thus[how?] re-used and depicted as a weasel yōkai, eventually...
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    move bullock carts (gissha or gyūsha) also comes from this. Bakeneko Gazu Hyakki Yakō Maneki-neko Nekomata 村上健司 編著 (2000). 妖怪事典. 毎日新聞社. pp. 103–104頁....
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