Yoshitoshi Tsukioka: One Hundred Tales of Monsters

This book is a collection of yokai paintings by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, the last great master of ukiyo-e. From the beginning of his career, Yoshitoshi favored strange and unusual subjects, creating a great many yokai paintings. This book features 100 of his representative works, including early yokai paintings, One Hundred Tales of Japan and China, paintings from his mature period, and New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts. They are eerie, bewitching, terrifying, or humorous, and every yokai has an unforgettable story. One hundred paintings, one hundred stories: see the joys and sorrows of human life through the eyes of yokai.