Legend has it that "every year yōkai, the Japanese supernatural beings, will take to the streets during summer nights." Anyone who comes across the procession would die, "unless protected."[1]
Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (画図百鬼夜行, "The Illustrated Night Parade of a Hundred Demons") is the first book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's famous Gazu Hyakki Yagyō e-hon series, published 1776.
These books are supernatural bestiaries, collections of ghosts, spirits, spooks and monsters, many of which Toriyama based on literature, folklore, other artwork.
These works have had a profound influence on subsequent yōkai imagery in Japan.
Other volumes of the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō series:
- Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki (second book)
- Konjaku Hyakki Shūi (third book)
- Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro (fourth book)
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