AFTER HIROHARU ITAYA (1831-82)

AFTER HIROHARU ITAYA (1831-82)

AND ANONYMOUS

MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY

Two Japanese bakemono makimono (handscroll paintings of monsters), both ink and colour on paper and depicting many supernatural creatures; the first after Hiroharu Itaya's Hyakki yagyo (Night Procession of the Hundred Demons), with similar-looking monsters and other possessed household objects frolicking, together with a tomobako wood box; the other scroll painted with further demonic creatures, 679cm x 26.5cm max. (3)