youkai-e　妖怪絵

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Also bakemono-e 化物絵 and yuurei-e 幽霊絵. *Ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints that depict monsters, ghosts and goblins. Ghosts which originate in *kabuki 歌舞伎 plays overlap into the category of actor prints *yakusha-e 役者絵. One of the oldest extant examples of youkai-e in Japan is the 16c Night Parade of One Hundred Demons Hyakki yagyou 百鬼夜行 handscroll, Daitokuji Shinjuan 大徳寺真珠庵 in Kyoto. Ghosts are also depicted in illustrated books *sashi-e 挿絵. Single-sheet ghost prints were designed by Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信 (1724-70), Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (1754-1806), Hokusai katsushika 葛飾北斎 (1761-1849), Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 (1797-1861), Keisai Eisen 溪斎英泉 (1790-1848) and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839-92), and ghosts were depicted in actor prints by Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国 (1769-1825), Kunisada 国貞 (1786-1864) and Toyohara Kunichika 豊原国周(1835-1900).

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