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Toriyama Sekien (鳥山 石燕?, 1712 – September 22, 1788) was an 18th-century scholar and ukiyo-e artist of Japanese folklore. He was the teacher of Utamaro and before taking up printmaking, a painter of the Kanō school. Toriyama is most famous for his attempt to catalogue all species of yōkai in the Hyakki Yagyō series.[1]


Notable works

The Illustrated Night Parade of A Hundred Demons (画図百鬼夜行?, published in 1776)
The Illustrated One Hundred Demons from the Present and the Past (今昔画図続百鬼?, published in 1779)
Supplement to The Hundred Demons from the Present and the Past (今昔百鬼拾遺?, published in 1780)
The Illustrated Bag of One Hundred Random Demons (画図百鬼徒然袋?, published in 1784)

References

Bush, Laurence c. (2001). Asian Horror Encyclopaedia. Writers Club Press. p. 203. ISBN 0-595-20181-4.

External links

Bridge of dreams: the Mary Griggs Burke collection of Japanese art, a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Toriyama Sekien (see index)

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