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Takaonna
Takaonna (高女, "tall woman") was a Japanese yōkai that appeared in the ''Gazu Hyakki Yagyō'' by Toriyama Sekien. Concept The Gazu (illustrated reference) above depicts a woman with an elongated lower body next to what appears to be a brothel. However, the ''Gazu Hyakki Yagyō'' has no explanatory text, so it is unclear what kind of yōkai this depiction was intended to be. Some believe that this yōkai was an original invention designed to parody the Yoshiwara Yūkaku of the Edo period. The book ''Yōkaigadan Zenshū Nihonhen Jō'' (妖怪画談全集 日本編 上, "Complete Analysis of Yōkai Paintings, Volume Japan, First Part") by the folklorist Morihiko Fujisawa explains that in a story from the Wakayama Prefecture called Takanyōbō (高女房, "Tall Woman"), a Takaonna would frighten people on the second floors of girō (brothels). The book ''Tōhoku Kaidan no Tabi'' (Travels for Mysterious Tales of Tōhoku) by the novelist Norio Yamada, the kaidan (mysterious tal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazu Hyakki Yagyō
is the first book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's famous ''Gazu Hyakki Yagyō'' e-hon tetralogy, published in 1776. A version of the tetralogy translated and annotated in English was published in 2016. Although the title translates to "The Illustrated Night Parade of a Hundred Demons", it is based on an idiom, ''hyakki yagyō,'' that is akin to wikt:pandemonium, pandemonium in English and implies an uncountable horde. The book is followed by ''Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki'', ''Konjaku Hyakki Shūi'', and ''Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro''. The book is a supernatural bestiary, a collection of ghosts, spirits, spooks and monsters from Japanese literature, literature, Japanese folklore, folklore, and other Japanese art, artwork. The art of ''Gazu Hyakki Yagyō'' heavily references a 1737 scroll-painting called the ''Hyakkai Zukan'' by artist Sawaki Sūshi; Sekien's innovation was preparing the illustrations as woodblock prints that could be mass-produced in a bound book format. Intend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
