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Exhibition Hall 3, Special Exhibition "Yokai Emaki (Specter Scrolls) of Edo" (Japanese only)

The Yokai Boom in the Edo Period
Focusing on Emaki, which had various methods of expression ！.

The Edo period is said to have been a time of a yokai boom, with countless illustrations of yokai of all kinds being produced in picture books, grass paperbacks, picture scrolls, and nishikie. One of the reasons for this may be that yokai stimulated the imagination of the artists. The museum has one of the largest collections of paintings of ghosts and yokai in Japan under the title "Kwaidan ・ YOKAI Collection. For this special exhibition, we have selected materials from this collection, focusing on the picture scroll format. Among the "Hyakki Yagyo" picture scrolls, which were created in the Muromachi period (1336-1573) and copied and arranged in the Edo period (1603-1868), the work by Kano Masunobu in the museum collection is an outstanding work from the early Edo period. In addition to "Hyakki Yagyo Emaki," which depicts a parade of yokai like "Hyakki Yagyo Zu," there were also picture scrolls that enumerated various kinds of yokai, which could be called yokai illustrated books, produced in the Edo period. The "Bakemono Emaki" is one such example.
Also on display will be works that have a narrative structure, such as "Tsuchigumo Zoshi," which depicts the extermination of the Tsuchigumo spider by Minamoto no Yorimitsu and the Four Heavenly Kings, and "Oishi Hyoroku Monogatari Emaki," a story set in Kagoshima featuring the samurai Oishi Hyoroku, a fox exterminating demon.
In addition to pure yokai, Mimitosai's caricature "Jigoku-zu-maki," which focuses on the theme of hell, will be added to the exhibition to introduce a variety of yokai paintings from the Edo period that were developed within the picture scroll format.


[Admission]
600 yen for adults, 250 yen for university students, free for high school students and younger
*The general exhibition is also available.
*People with disabilities may enter the museum free of charge with a caregiver upon presentation of a disability certificate.
*High school and university students must show their student ID.
*Please show your museum ticket stub and you can enter the Botanical Garden until （ 16 ： 00 ） on the same day.
Show the stub from the Botanical Garden and get a discount for the admission fee to the Museum on the same day.