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The '''Ehon Hyaku Monogatari''' (絵本百物語), also called the '''Tōsanjin Yawa''' (桃山人夜話 - Night Stories of the People of Peach Mountain") is a book of images by Japanese artist [[Takehara Shunsen]], published ca. 1841. The book was intended as a followup to [[Toriyama Sekien]]'s ''Gazu Hyakki Yakō'' series. Like these books it is a supernatural [[bestiary]] of ghosts, monsters, and spirits which has had a profound influence on subsequent ''[[yōkai]]'' imagery in Japan. | The '''Ehon Hyaku Monogatari''' (絵本百物語 - Picture Book of a Hundred Stories), also called the '''Tōsanjin Yawa''' (桃山人夜話 - Night Stories of the People of Peach Mountain") is a book of images by Japanese artist [[Takehara Shunsen]], published ca. 1841. The book was intended as a followup to [[Toriyama Sekien]]'s ''Gazu Hyakki Yakō'' series. Like these books it is a supernatural [[bestiary]] of ghosts, monsters, and spirits which has had a profound influence on subsequent ''[[yōkai]]'' imagery in Japan. | ||
Latest revision as of 22:41, 29 April 2008
The Ehon Hyaku Monogatari (絵本百物語 - Picture Book of a Hundred Stories), also called the Tōsanjin Yawa (桃山人夜話 - Night Stories of the People of Peach Mountain") is a book of images by Japanese artist Takehara Shunsen, published ca. 1841. The book was intended as a followup to Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yakō series. Like these books it is a supernatural bestiary of ghosts, monsters, and spirits which has had a profound influence on subsequent yōkai imagery in Japan.