Konjaku Hyakki Shui
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is the third book of Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese artist Toriyama Sekien
Toriyama Sekien
thumb|200px| 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 Yakō series.-References:...

's Gazu Hyakki Yakō series, published ca. 1781. These books are supernatural bestiaries
Bestiary
A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson...

, collections of ghosts, spirits, spooks and monsters, many of which Toriyama based on literature
Japanese literature
Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion of Buddhism in Japan...

, folklore
Japanese folklore
The folklore of Japan is heavily influenced by both Shinto and Buddhism, the two primary religions in the country. It often involves humorous or bizarre characters and situations and also includes an assortment of supernatural beings, such as bodhisattva, kami , yōkai , yūrei ,...

, and other artwork
Japanese art
Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper and more recently manga, cartoon, along with a myriad of other types of works of art...

. These works have had a profound influence on subsequent yōkai
Yōkai
are a class of supernatural monsters in Japanese folklore. The word yōkai is made up of the kanji for "otherworldly" and "weird". Yōkai range eclectically from the malevolent to the mischievous, or occasionally bring good fortune to those who encounter them...

imagery in Japan.

First Volume - 雲

is a clam
Clam
The word "clam" can be applied to freshwater mussels, and other freshwater bivalves, as well as marine bivalves.In the United States, "clam" can be used in several different ways: one, as a general term covering all bivalve molluscs...

 that has grown to an enormous size, at which point it rises to the surface of the sea and breathes out a mirage
Mirage
A mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French mirage, from the Latin mirare, meaning "to look at, to wonder at"...

 of distant cities.
is the spirit of China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

's Purple Mountain. It appears as a red, man-faced dragon, a thousand [ri] tall.
is a tree which grows in remote mountains recesses, with flowers that resemble human faces. These faces are always smiling, even as they fall from their branches.

is a sea creature which is human from the chest up, and a fish below.

is magical incense which can conjure up the spirits of the dead.
is a spirit which lives inside a thousand year old tree. It resembles a black dog with a human face and no tail.

is a phenomenon in which stones are suddenly thrown through the air somewhere deep in the mountains. It is thought to be the work of the tengu
Tengu
are a class of supernatural creatures found in Japanese folklore, art, theater, and literature. They are one of the best known yōkai and are sometimes worshipped as Shinto kami...

.
is the bell which was melted by Kiyohime
Kiyo
According to Japanese folklore, was the daughter of a village headman or landlord named Shōji, on the Hidaka riverbank...

, a woman who fell in love with a young priest, and through the rage of unrequited love became a terrible serpent demon. When the priest fled and hid underneath this temple bell, the serpent surrounded the bell and destroyed herself and her would-be lover in flames of her rage.

is a man who became mute, and was made to drink medicine and then had a candle placed on his head. "Todaiki" became his nickname.
is the ghost of an old man who worked hard to pass on his rice fields to his descendants. His children squandered the fields and sold them to someone else, and so the old man appeared in the fields as a black, one-eyed creature crying for his rice fields to be returned.
was a woman who came to a mountain temple and was called the head priest's wife, because she lived in his quarters. She stole rice and money from the people who came to the temple, and as punishment became a terrible demon hag who eats the skin from corpses.
is an old woman who is the assistant of Jibun Senjō, the spirit of face powder. She walks through the snow during the twelfth month of the lunar calendar
Chinese calendar
The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. It is not exclusive to China, but followed by many other Asian cultures as well...

, wearing an oversized sugegasa hat.
is an old woman who holds a red snake in her left hand and a blue snake in her right hand. She guards a certain "snake mound", possibly because she is the wife of a monstrous serpent named "Jagoemon" who is sealed there.
is a woman's shadow cast by the light of the moon on the paper sliding door of a house where mononoke
Yōkai
are a class of supernatural monsters in Japanese folklore. The word yōkai is made up of the kanji for "otherworldly" and "weird". Yōkai range eclectically from the malevolent to the mischievous, or occasionally bring good fortune to those who encounter them...

live.
is a giant woman who appears behind you while you are walking alone down city streets. She cackles in a terrifying manner. She may be the ghost of a prostitute.
is a spirit made of smoke that rises out of a house.

Second Volume - 霧

is the demon-woman of Mount Togakushi.
is an oxcart with a huge human face on the front, which appears on hazy moonlit nights in Kyoto.
is the ghost of a burned monk that appears on Mount Toribe.
  • Minobi

  • Aoandon
    Aoandon
    Aoandon, or Aoandō is a creature illustrated by Toriyama Sekien in his Konjaku Hyakki Shūi. It was meant to represent the spirit that appeared during Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai meetings, after the last story was told...


  • Ameonna
    Ameonna
    Ameonna is a female spirit illustrated in Toriyama Sekien's Konjaku Hyakki Shūi as a woman standing in the rain and licking her hand. She is described as a goddess from China's Mount Wushan, who is a cloud in the morning and rain in the evening...


  • Kosamebō

  • Gangikozō

  • Ayakashi
    Ayakashi
    is a Japanese animated horror anthology television series produced by Toei Animation.The series is made up of three stories: "Yotsuya Ghost Story", an adaptation of the classic Japanese ghost story; "Goddess of the Dark Tower", based on the play by Kyōka Izumi; and Goblin Cat, an original story by...


  • Kidō
    Kido
    - People :* Kido Takayoshi , was a prominent Japanese politician of the Meiji Government* Akiyuki Kido , is a Japanese ice dancer* Kōichi Kido , was a minister of the Cabinet of Japan during World War II...


  • Onihitokuchi

  • Jatai

  • Kosodenote

  • Hatahiro

  • Ōzatō

  • Himamushinyūdō

  • Sesshōseki

  • Fūri
    Furi
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  • Morinjinokama

Third Volume - 雨

  • Rashōmon-no-oni (Oni of Rashōmon)

  • Yonakinoishi

  • Bashōnosei

  • Suzuri-no-tamashii

  • Byōbu-no-zoki

  • Keukegen
    Keukegen
    Keukegen is a creature illustrated in Toriyama Sekien's Konjaku Hyakki Shūi. It resembles a small dog covered entirely in long hair...


  • Mokumokuren
    Mokumokuren
    In Japanese Mythology, are spirits that live in torn shōji . If the shōji has many holes, eyes can sometimes be seen on it, which, if looked at long enough, can make people blind. The only way to remove the spirit from the wall is to patch up the holes in it. Mokumokuren is said to be an invention...


  • Kyōkotsu

  • Mekurabe

  • Ushirogami

  • Iyaya

  • Hōsōshi

  • Takirei-ō

  • Hakutaku

  • Kakurezato
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