Konjaku Hyakki Shūi

Konjaku Hyakki Shūi (今昔百鬼拾遺, "Supplement to The Hundred Demons from the Present and the Past") is the third book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō tetralogy, published ca. 1781. These books are supernatural bestiaries, collections of ghosts, spirits, spooks and monsters, many of which Toriyama based on literature, folklore, and other artwork. These works have had a profound influence on subsequent yōkai imagery in Japan. Konjaku Hyakki Shūi is preceded in the series by Gazu Hyakki Yagyō and Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki, and succeeded by Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro.

A version of the tetralogy translated and annotated in English was published in 2016, which included this work, whose title is rendered as More of the Demon Horde from Past and Present.[1]

List of creatures

The three volumes were titled Cloud (雲), Mist (霧), and Rain (雨).[2]

First Volume - Cloud
  • Shinkirō (ja:蜃気楼, mirage) is a clam that has grown to an enormous size, at which point it rises to the surface of the sea and breathes out a mirage of distant cities.[3]
  • Shokuin (ja:燭陰) is the spirit of China's Purple Mountain. It appears as a red, man-faced dragon, a thousand ri tall.[4]
  • Ninmenju (人面樹, human-faced tree) is a tree which grows in remote mountains recesses, with flowers that resemble human faces. These faces are always smiling, even as they fall from their branches.[5]
  • Ningyo (人魚, human fish or mermaid) is a sea creature which is human from the chest up, and a fish below.[6]
  • Hangonkō (返魂香, 反魂香) is magical incense which can conjure up the spirits of the dead.[7]
  • Hōkō (彭侯) is a spirit which lives inside a thousand-year-old tree. It resembles a black dog with a human face and no tail.[8]
  • Tengutsubute (ja:天狗礫, tengu throwing stones) is a phenomenon in which stones are suddenly thrown through the air somewhere deep in the mountains. It is thought to be the work of the tengu.[9]
  • Dōjōjinokane (道成寺鐘, the bell of Dōjōji temple) is the bell which was melted by Kiyohime, a woman who fell in love with a young priest, and through the rage of unrequited love became a terrible serpent demon. When the priest fled and hid underneath this temple bell, the serpent surrounded the bell and destroyed herself and her would-be lover in flames of her rage.[10]
  • Tōdaiki (ja:灯台鬼, candle-stand demon) is a man who became mute, and was made to drink medicine and then had a candle placed on his head. "Todaiki" became his nickname.[11]
  • Dorotabō (ja:泥田坊, muddy rice field fellow) is the ghost of an old man who worked hard to pass on his rice fields to his descendants. His children squandered the fields and sold them to someone else, and so the old man appeared in the fields as a black, one-eyed creature crying for his rice fields to be returned.[12]
  • Kokuribaba (ja:古庫裏婆, hag of the old priest's quarters) was a woman who came to a mountain temple and was called the head priest's wife, because she lived in his quarters. She stole rice and money from the people who came to the temple, and as punishment became a terrible demon hag who eats the skin from corpses.[13]
  • Oshiroibaba (ja:白粉婆, face-powder hag) is an old woman who is the assistant of Jibun Senjō, the spirit of face powder. She walks through the snow during the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, wearing an oversized sugegasa hat.[14]
  • Jakotsubaba (ja:蛇骨婆, snake-bone hag) is an old woman who holds a red snake in her left hand and a blue snake in her right hand. She guards a certain "snake mound", possibly because she is the wife of a monstrous serpent named "Jagoemon" who is sealed there.[15]
  • Kageonna (ja:影女, shadow woman) is a woman's shadow cast by the light of the moon on the paper sliding door of a house where mononoke live.[16]
  • Kerakeraonna (ja:倩兮女)
  • Enenra (烟々羅) is a spirit made of smoke that rises out of a house.[17]

Second Volume - Mist

Third Volume - Rain

Bashōnosei
"Bashōnosei" from Toriyama Sekien "Konjaku Hyakki Shūi"

Bashōnosei (ばしょうのせい, Japanese banana spirit) is a ghost in Toriyama Sekien's collection of monster paintings, "Konjaku Hyakki Shūi". The spirit of Basho transforms a person by taking the form of a person.

Overview

According to the commentary of "Hundred demon hunting", "The story that Basho's spirit can turn into a person is in Karato (China), and the song" Basho "was created by this." Of the "Koukai Shimbun Iken"[21] There is a mysterious story where Basho's spirit turns into a human figure, and Basho's spirit appears as a woman under a monk who is reading a book and asks, "Is it possible to make a heartless plant or Buddha?" "Bashio"[22] is based on the Chinese "Hukai Shimbun".[23]

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See also

References
  1. Yoda, Hiroko; Alt, Matt (2016). Japandemonium Illustrated: The Yokai Encyclopedias of Toriyama Sekien. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-80035-6.
  2. Toriyama Sekien 鳥山石燕 (1805). "Morin-ji [no] kama 茂林寺釜". Konjaku Hyakki Shūi 百鬼夜行拾遺 3巻（今昔百鬼拾遺）. 1 (雲). Naganoya Kanbē.; 2 (kiri), 3 (ame).((in Japanese)
  3. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/sinkiro.html
  4. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/syokuin.html
  5. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/ninmen.html
  6. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/ningyo.html
  7. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/hangon.html
  8. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/houkou.html
  9. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/tengutu.html
  10. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/dojoji.html
  11. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/todaiki.html
  12. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/dorotabo.html
  13. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/kokuriba.html
  14. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/osiroi.html
  15. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/c_jakotuba.html
  16. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/kageonna.html
  17. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kumo/enenra.html
  18. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kiri/momijiga.html
  19. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kiri/oborogu.html
  20. http://park.org/Japan/CSK/hyakki/zukan/jyuui/kiri/kazenbo.html
  21. (無名). 湖海新聞夷堅續誌  (in Chinese) – via Wikisource.
  22. 大和田建樹 (1896). 謡曲通解. 5 (増補 ed.). 博文館. pp. 14–21. doi:10.11501/876558.
  23. 高田衛監修 稲田篤信・田中直日編 (1992). 鳥山石燕 画図百鬼夜行. 国書刊行会. pp. 236頁. ISBN 978-4-336-03386-4.

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