Toriyama Sekien

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).

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