Hyakkai Zukan

Hyakkai-Zukan (百怪図巻; "The Illustrated Volume of a Hundred Demons") is a picture scroll (emakimono) painted in Genbun 2 (1737) by the Edo period Japanese artist Sawaki Suushi (佐脇嵩之 (Sawaki Sūshi), 1707–1772), a student of Hanabusa Itchō. The scroll serves as a supernatural bestiary, a collection of ghosts, spirits and monsters (yōkai), which Suushi based on literature, folklore, and other artwork. These images had a profound influence on subsequent yōkai imagery in Japan for generations.

It was formerly a possession of the costume history researcher and Nihonga painter Yoshikawa Kanpō (1894–1979) and is currently held by the Fukuoka City Museum.

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