Ghost Stories: Night Procession of the Hundred Demons
(Kaidan hyakki yagyô)
c. 1836
This series shows male and female genitalia in the guise if various demons. Each print bears a title, many of which are bawdy and often pun the demons’ names. Although the individual prints are unsigned, the wrapper is signed “Ichimyôkai Hodoyoshi ga”, a signature Kuniyoshi is known to have used on erotic prints. This series is not listed in ‘Robinson’ by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints in this series are each about 5 by 3.5 inches (13 by 9 centimeters), a size known as koban.
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Title: Junping Doll (Tobiningyô) Description:
This is the cover of the series showing a toy in the form of a cat-person |
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Title: Sexy
Prick, Big Pussy (Enmara daibolo) Description:
Emma, king of hell, presides over lovemaking among the hungry dead (gakidô) |
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Title: Pussy
Spirit of Kasane (Kasane no bobokon) Description:
The disfigured Kasane had been murdered by her
husband, Yoemon, with a sickle by the |
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Title: Cunt Monk (Tsubi bôzu) Description:
Umi-bôzu (sea monk) was a large demon that emerged
from the sea to haunt ships |
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Title: Consoling
Pussy of Horse Face Mountain, Sometimes Called Monk Riot (Tsuramayama dôjô-bobo, ichimei
Sôdô-bô) Description:
Monk Sôjô taught military arts to Ushiwaka-maru (the young Yoshitsune) at Kuramayama |
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Title:
Pillar of Flames (Hi-hashira) Description:
A flaming pillar of penises rises above the roofs of the Yoshiwara pleasure
quarter (which was frequently destroyed by fire) |
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Title: Crucifixion
of Okoma (Okoma no karitsuke) Description:
Okoma, who was sentenced to be executed at Suzu-ga-mori for murdering her husband was pardoned after
petitioning by her lover Saiza |
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Title: Four-eyed
Acolyte (Yotsume kozô) Description:
Hitotsume kozô (one-eyed
acolyte) was a much-feared demon. This
four-eyed version holds higo-zuiki (dried stems of
sweet potato), which were used as a sex toy. |
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Title: Octo-pussy of the Description:
Large octopuses were hunted at the mouth of the |
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Title: Penis
Skeleton (Karikkotsu) Description:
A penis skeleton menaces a woman who has come onto a veranda at night |
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Title:
Licentious Priest with Angry Pussy (Jinbari nyûdô bobo dokisu) Description: |
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Jewel Gate (Gyokumon,
also meaning vulva) Description:
An executed criminal’s head displayed at the entrance to a prison (gokumon) |
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Title: Nailing
a Dick Doll at the Hour of the Ox (Ushi no toki mairi mara
ningyô o utsu) Description:
A woman wanting to kill a man who had spurned her was supposed to don a crown
of candles, go to a shrine at the hour of the ox (about 2 AM), and nail a
straw figure of the man to s sacred tree |
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