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    Hyakki Yagyō (百鬼夜行, "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons"), also transliterated Hyakki Yakō, is an idiom in Japanese folklore. Sometimes an orderly procession...
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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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  • is the second book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's famous Gazu Hyakki Yagyō tetralogy, published c. 1779. A version of the tetralogy translated and...
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  • the Past") is the third book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō tetralogy, published c. 1781. These books are supernatural bestiaries...
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  • 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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    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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    Monogatarishū, and in these publications, mentions of phenomena such as Hyakki Yagyō can be seen. The yōkai that appear in this literature were passed on...
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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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    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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    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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    '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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    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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    supernatural being, in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien and in various emakimono such as the Matsui Library's Hyakki Yagyō Emaki. In yōkai depictions...
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    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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    Hyakkai Zukan and the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō. They can also be written しゃうけら, せうけら, as well as 精螻蛄. In the Hyakkai Zukan, Gazu Hyakki Yagyō etc., they appear only...
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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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    from Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō and is thought to be a yōkai that appears at abandoned temples. The Gazu Hyakki Yagyō depicts a yōkai that looks...
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    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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    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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    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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    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 mouth...
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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 spiders...
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    chōchin'oiwa. Among emakimono that depict many yōkai of tools, there is the Hyakki Yagyō Emaki [ja], but there have been no chōchin found in older works before...
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  • characteristic can also be seen in the Tsukumogami Emaki and the Hyakki Yagyō Emaki. The Hyakki Yagyō Emaki (百鬼夜行絵巻) from the Muromachi period also depicts many...
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    Takaonna (高女, "tall woman") was a Japanese yōkai that appeared in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien. The Gazu (illustrated reference) above depicts a...
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    about it are unknown. In folktale legends, they are a member of the Hyakki Yagyō (in the Akita Prefecture), and there is a type of umibōzu in the Okayama...
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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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    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 "like...
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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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    [better source needed] Toriyama, Sekien (2005). Toriyama Sekien Gazu Hyakki Yagyō Zen Gashū. Kadokawa Sophia Bunko (in Japanese). Kadokawa Shoten. ISBN 978-4-04-405101-3...
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