今昔画図続百鬼（こんじゃくがずぞくひゃっき）
Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki
Sekien's second book, 1779: the night parade continued, now with notes.
The 1779 sequel adds a short text to most pictures, and the texts are where Sekien’s learning and his humour show. The flaming oxcart wheel with a man’s face, the wanyūdō, has a note about a woman who looked at it; the flying-squirrel nobusuma gets its name explained; the skeleton bride hone-onna comes with her story from Otogi-bōko; the satori reads a woodcutter’s thoughts; the kawa-akago cries like a baby at the river’s edge to draw people in.
Several of this book’s yokai have no record outside it, and that is part of what the articles on this site examine: a picture of 1779 may be the whole of a creature’s history, or a window onto a tale that has been lost.
Related yokai
Wanyūdō
輪入道（わにゅうどう）
In Toriyama Sekien's 1779 picture book, a single ox-cart wheel rolls through the night by itself — and anyone who sees it is said to lose their soul.
Nobusuma
野衾（のぶすま）
A 1938 Tokyo record describes something like a flying squirrel that drifts down onto a traveler and covers the eyes and mouth — and stops there.
Kawa-akago
川赤子（かわあかご）
Toriyama Sekien drew an infant-shaped creature rising from the water plants of a mountain river in 1779, watching a man on a raft — and admitted in the caption that he was guessing about what it was.
Satori
覚（さとり）
Sekien's 1779 entry describes a black, long-haired creature of the deep mountains that understands speech, reads what you are thinking, and leaves the moment you decide to kill it — and a later tale defeats it with something nobody thought at all.
Tenjō-sagari
天井下り（てんじょうさがり）
In 1779 Sekien drew an old woman hanging upside down from the ceiling, and wrote a caption that is mostly a joke — about a demon who once escaped through a roof, and a phrase for knocking someone flat.
Hone-onna
骨女（ほねおんな）
Sekien drew Hone-onna in 1779 as an old skeleton carrying a peony lantern, and his caption names the 1666 tale behind it: a widower's night visitor whom only an outsider saw for what she was.
Suiko
水虎（すいこ）
A Chinese pharmacological encyclopedia describes a river creature the size of a small child, armoured in scales that arrows cannot pierce, which keeps its body underwater and lets only its two tiger-pawed knees break the surface.