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Heisei Hyakki Yagyō Emaki

平成百鬼夜行絵巻
Heisei Normal edition
  • Plates100 plates
  • LanguagesJapanese / English
Heisei Hyakki Yagyō Emaki
Heisei Heisei Hyakki Yagyō Emaki

About this book

One hundred yōkai born from the everyday objects of Heisei-era Japan (1989–2019) — pagers, flip phones, photo-sticker booths, dial-up modems, portable game screens — painted in a woodblock-print spirit and woven into a single night parade.

At the center walks Suzune, a photographer with a small red bell at her throat, who records the procession plate by plate. Plate 1 is The Reply Beggar, still waiting inside a dead pager for an answer that never came. The yōkai have been keeping everything you lost — the unsent mails, the tapes you never rewound. The hundredth plate gives it all back. What comes back is the era itself.

For personal enjoyment only.

Sample plates

Heisei Hyakki Yagyō Emaki 001
Heisei Hyakki Yagyō Emaki 021
Heisei Hyakki Yagyō Emaki 041
Heisei Hyakki Yagyō Emaki 061
Heisei Hyakki Yagyō Emaki 081

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