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[[File:Buson Bake-icho-no-rei.jpg|thumb|A drawing of the spirit of the giant [[Ginkgo biloba|ginkgo]] tree at ''[[Tsurugaoka Hachimangū]]'' temple. According to the attached story, this ginkgo was involved in the assassination of shōgun [[Minamoto no Sanetomo]]. It warns that the spirit is known to shape-shift, taking the form of a monk with a golden bell, and can be seen wandering around the temple.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BCnYCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT77 |title=Historical epistemology and the making of modern Chinese medicine |last=Chiang |first=Howard |date=2015-07-01 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9781784991913 |pages=77 |language=en}}</ref>]]
The {{nihongo|'''''Buson yōkai emaki'''''|蕪村妖怪絵巻}} is an [[Edo period|18th century]] collection of {{nihongo|"picture scrolls"|絵巻|[[Emakimono|''emaki'']]}} depicting Japanese ''[[yōkai]]'' by poet and painter [[Yosa Buson]]. The whereabouts of the original work are presently unclear; its contents are known from a reprinting released by the Kitada Shisui Collection in 1928.<ref name="hg3">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KEpAQAAIAAJ |title=図說妖怪画の系譜 [Zusetsu Yōkaiga no keifu] |author=Hyōgo Prefectural History Museum |author2=Kyōto International Manga Museum |publisher=Kawade Shobō Shinsha |year=2009 |isbn=9784309761251 |location=Tokyo |pages=12–14 |language=ja}}</ref>
It is thought that the collection was made during the period between 1754 and 1757, when Buson was studying painting in [[Miyazu, Kyoto|Miyazu]], [[Tango Province]], at the {{nihongo|''Kenjōji''|見性寺}} [[Buddhist temples in Japan|temple]].<ref name="dw2">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/835672238 |title=日本の妖怪. [Nihon no yōkai.] |publisher=Heibonsha |year=1987 |editor-last=Tanigawa |editor-first=Ken'ichi |series=別冊太陽 [Bessatsu taiyō] |pages=112–113 |language=ja |issue=57|oclc=835672238 }}</ref> In total, eight different kinds of {{nihongo|''yōkai''|妖怪}} are depicted. Some of the works are annotated with just the name of the being portrayed, whereas others include a more detailed story. It has been surmised that, whilst Buson was travelling across Japan, he picked up various stories about different kinds of regional ''yōkai'', and that the ''yōkai emaki'' contains his realisation of those stories.<ref name="hg3" /><ref name="yum3">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Io6AAAAMAAJ |title=妖怪百物語絵卷 [Yōkai hyaku monogatari emaki] |last=Yumoto |first=Kōichi |publisher=Kokusho Kankōkai |year=2003 |location=Tokyo |pages=122 |isbn=9784336045478 |language=ja}}</ref>
Buson, who excelled in the ''[[haiga]]''-style, forsook realism, and instead painted his ''yōkai'' in a manner that uniquely resembles modern Japanese ''[[manga]]''.<ref name="hg3" /><ref name="yum3" /> Most traditional paintings of ''yōkai'' from [[History of Japan#Feudal Japan|Japan's mediaeval period]] (1185–1568) portrayed them as supernatural beings, the fearful harbingers of disaster, but works from the Edo period (1603–1868), including Buson's, paint them as familiar, funny, creatures that can be enjoyed as [[fiction]]. This trend continues in modern ''yōkai'' manga, which have their origins in Edo period works like Buson's.<ref name="hg3" />
==Excerpts of the ''emaki''==
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File:Buson Bakeneko.jpg|"''[[Bakeneko]]'' of the Sasakibara Family"
File:Buson Akago-no-kai.jpg|"''Akago no kai''"
File:Buson Nopperabo.jpg|"The ''[[Noppera-bō]]'' of [[Kyoto]]"
File:Buson Ubume.jpg|"The ''[[Ubume]]'' of [[Yokote, Akita|Yokote]]"
File:Buson Yonaki-babaa.jpg|"The ''yonakibabā'' of [[Tōtōmi Province|Enshū]]"
File:Buson Oriental Melon.jpg|"The oriental melon [[Obake|monster]] of [[Yamashiro Province|Yamashiro]]"
File:Buson Watermelon.jpg|"The watermelon [[Obake|monster]] of [[Naniwa-ku, Osaka|Kizu]]"
</gallery>
==References==
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