Japanese painter whose real name was Toyofusa Sano. It is one of the precursors of ukiyo-e, a genre of engravings made by woodcut. Sekien's artistic work was based almost exclusively on the representation of monsters and ghosts. his yokai are based on traditional texts and some previous paintings and prints. Sekien's compilation is made up of four books: The Night Parade of the One Hundred Demon Illustrated (1776), One Hundred Illustrated Demons of the Present and the Past (1779), Supplement of the One Hundred Demons of the Present and the Past (1780) and The Bag of the hundred utensils appeared at random (1784).
Richard Williams (born March 19, 1933) is a Canadian–British animator. He is best known for serving as animation director on Disney/Amblin's Who Framed Roger Rabbit and for his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler. He was also a film title sequence designer and animator; his most famous works in this field included the title sequences to What's New, Pussycat? (1965) and title and linking sequences in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968). He also animated the eponymous cartoon feline for two of the later Pink Panther films.
Richard Williams emigrated from Toronto to Ibiza in 1953 and then to London in 1955. In 1958 he produced the work that boosted his career and won the 1958 BAFTA Award for Animated Film, The Li
