Toriyama Sekien

Toriyama Sekien (鳥山 石燕, 1712 – September 22, 1788) was an 18th-century scholar and ukiyo-e artist of Japanese folklore. He was the teacher of Utamaro and before taking up printmaking, a painter of the Kanō school. Toriyama is most famous for his attempt to catalogue all species of yōkai in the Hyakki Yagyō series.

Notable works

• The Illustrated Night Parade of A Hundred Demons (画図百鬼夜行, published in 1776)
• The Illustrated One Hundred Demons from the Present and the Past (今昔画図続百鬼, published in 1779)
• Supplement to The Hundred Demons from the Present and the Past (今昔百鬼拾遺, published in 1780)
• The Illustrated Bag of One Hundred Random Demons (画図百鬼徒然袋, published in 1784)

External links

• Bridge of dreams: the Mary Griggs Burke collection of Japanese art, a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Toriyama Sekien (see index)