About this book
The third volume of the SUZUNE — Hyakki Yagyō series, set in Reiwa-era Japan (2019–present). The frame of a face-unlock screen, the spreading crack across a dropped phone, the moving dot on a delivery app's map, the lattice of a QR code, a point balance quietly expiring, the two characters that mean "read" — one hundred new yōkai born from life alongside the smartphone, painted in a woodblock-print spirit within the classical night-parade format. None are drawn from documented folklore; all are original creations made for this book.
Plate 1, The Face-Key Eater, grows one more of your faces inside the screen on every night the unlock fails in the dark. Plate 50, The Expiry Grub, goes around snuffing one small light for every point saved, on the night it all expires. Plate 75, The Small-Hours Finger, keeps scrolling down and down long after the hand it belongs to has fallen asleep. What these yōkai hold onto is everything you have quietly handed over: every permission you nodded through, every notification you never opened. Plate 100, The Return of Reiwa, shows a hundred eyes and screens lowering their light at once, as a single small bell rings without asking permission.
Each plate carries a hand-brushed title slip with the yōkai's name; facing it, a bilingual commentary in three parts — Origin, Signs, and Practice — reads as much like a field guide as an artwork: how the being was born, how to recognize it, and what to do next.
Fully bilingual in Japanese and English throughout. All one hundred plates were created using AI image-generation tools, individually directed, hand-selected, retouched, and quality-controlled by the artist. Read together with SUZUNE — Shōwa Hyakki Yagyō and SUZUNE — Heisei Hyakki Yagyō, all three eras join into a single parade.
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