Toriyama Sekien (鳥山 石燕, 1712 – September 22, 1788), real name Sano Toyofusa, was a scholar, kyōka poet, and ukiyo-e artist of Japanese folklore. Born...

Demon Horde's Night Parade) is the first book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's famous Gazu Hyakki Yagyō e-hon tetralogy, published in 1776. A version...

ophthalmologist and photographer Motomu Toriyama, Japanese game director and scenario writer Toriyama Sekien (1712–1788), scholar and ukiyo-e artist This...

citation] In the Edo period (1603 to 1868), many artists, such as Toriyama Sekien (1712-1788), invented new yōkai by taking inspiration from folk-tales...

(垢(あか)嘗(なめ), 'scum-licker'; 'filth-licker') is a Japanese yōkai depicted in Toriyama Sekien's 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, with its precursor or equivalent akaneburi...

Shunsensai, published about 1841. The book was intended as a followup to Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō series. Like those books, it is a supernatural bestiary...

(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 or a lobster. It...

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...

the Present and the Past") is the second book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's famous Gazu Hyakki Yagyō tetralogy, published c. 1779. A version of...

similar to noppera-bō but as an adjective. The Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien depicts a nurarihyon hanging down from a kago. Like the emakimono,...

Sawaki Suushi. They are also depicted in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien. They are depicted as an animated corpse with darkened skin and dangling...

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 elongated...

Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi and the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (1776) by Sekien Toriyama. In the Hyakkai Zukan (1737, Sawaki Suushi), Bakemonozukushi (化物づくし)...

allowing people to coexist with satori. A satori is depicted in Toriyama Sekien's Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki, but since this was modeled after the yamako...

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...

Japanese collection of Yōkai pictures, the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki by Toriyama Sekien published in 1779. Its picture has the explanatory text, "as explained...

kiinushii. In the collection of yōkai depictions, the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien, under the title 木魅 ("kodama"), an aged man and woman are depicted...

that is related to 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...

and carrying a small baby." Other illustrations of ubume are from Toriyama Sekien’s late-18th-century encyclopedia of ghosts, goblins, and ghouls, Gazu...

Zoku Hyakki (1779) by Toriyama Sekien. As its name implies, it depicts this yōkai as a woman in the form of bones. In Sekien's explanatory text in the...

heads. It notably appears in the Edo period Konjaku Hyakki Shūi by Toriyama Sekien. The Konjaku Hyakki Shūi depicts it as a tree blooming with flowers...

woman") is a Japanese yōkai thought to call forth rain, illustrated in Toriyama Sekien's Konjaku Hyakki Shūi as a woman standing in the rain and licking her...

draws from it. In the Morinji no Kama from Konjaku Hyakki Shūi by Toriyama Sekien, it was named "Bunbuku" from the expression "Bunbukuka" (文武火), meaning...

suggested his father may have been a Yoshiwara teahouse owner, or Toriyama Sekien, an artist who tutored him and who wrote of Utamaro playing in his...

works in this motif include those by Toriyama Sekien (Gazu Hyakki Yagyō) and Utagawa Yoshiiku. However, Toriyama's work presents yōkai in separate, encyclopedic...

from the Present and the Past") is the third book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō tetralogy, published c. 1781. These books are supernatural...

ISBN 978-4-06-277602-8. Toriyama, Sekien; 鳥山石燕 (2017-01-18). Japandemonium illustrated : the yokai encyclopedias of Toriyama Sekien. Yoda, Hiroko,, Alt,...

Japanese yōkai, or supernatural being, in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien and in various emakimono such as the Matsui Library's Hyakki Yagyō...

kamae tachi ("stance 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...

patch up the holes in it. Mokumokuren are said to be an invention of Toriyama Sekien. A stingy traveling merchant once tried to save money by sleeping in...