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Toriyama Sekien's illustrated demons
In 1776 the Edo artist Toriyama Sekien published 'The Illustrated Night Parade of a Hundred Demons', the first of four catalogues of yōkai.
1776 CE · 35.70, 139.77 · status: official
The account
His pages fixed the names and shapes of creatures from kappa to tengu and invented some new ones. Later artists and Shigeru Mizuki's manga drew heavily on them.