Konjaku Hyakki Shūi
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Konjaku Hyakki Shūi (今昔百鬼拾遺, "Supplement to The Hundred Demons from the Present and the Past") is the third book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō series, published ca. 1781. These books are supernatural bestiaries, collections of ghosts, spirits, spooks and monsters, many of which Toriyama based on literature, folklore, and other artwork. These works have had a profound influence on subsequent yōkai imagery in Japan.
List of creatures
The three volumes were titled Cloud (雲), Mist (霧), and Rain (雨).
First Volume - Cloud
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Shokuin (ja:燭陰) is the spirit of China's Purple Mountain. It appears as a red, man-faced dragon, a thousand ri tall.[2]
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Tengutsubute ([[[:ja:天狗礫]], tengu throwing stones] Error: {{nihongo}}: text has italic markup (help)) 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.[7]
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道成寺鐘]], the bell of Dōjōji temple] Error: {{nihongo}}: text has italic markup (help)) is the bell which was melted by Kiyohime, 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.[8]
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Dorotabō ([[[:ja:泥田坊]], muddy rice field fellow] Error: {{nihongo}}: text has italic markup (help)) 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.[10]
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Kokuribaba ([[[:ja:古庫裏婆]], hag of the old priest's quarters] Error: {{nihongo}}: text has italic markup (help)) 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.[11]
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Oshiroibaba ([[[:ja:白粉婆]], face-powder hag] Error: {{nihongo}}: text has italic markup (help)) 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, wearing an oversized sugegasa hat.[12]
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Jakotsubaba ([[[:ja:蛇骨婆]], snake-bone hag] Error: {{nihongo}}: text has italic markup (help)) 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.[13]
Second Volume - Mist
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Oboroguruma (ja:朧車) is an oxcart with a huge human face on the front, which appears on hazy moonlit nights in Kyoto.[17]
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Jatai (ja:蛇帯)
Third Volume - Rain
References
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- Toriyama, Sekien (2005). Toriyama Sekien Gazu Hyakki Yagyō Zen Gashū. Kadokawa Sophia Bunko (in Japanese). Kadokawa Shoten. ISBN 978-4-04-405101-3.
- Natsuhiko Kyogoku and Katsumi Tada (:ja:多田克己) (2000). Yōkai Zukan (in Japanese). Kokusho Kankokai (ja:国書刊行会). ISBN 978-4-336-04187-6.
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